I want to watch a video that is in h.265 format.
What is the easist way to install support for h265 in Fedora 41?
From the command line / terminal:
Install RPM Fusion Free repository.
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
and then install libavcodec-freeworld
sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld
And now I can watch all my videos!
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Just wanted to let you know that with today’s Firefox 137 release hardware accelerated h265 (hevc) is also available in Firefox:
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How can I get this sheet?
Put about:support#media in the Firefox address bar.
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I’m on version 143 and only VP9 & VP8 are supported by hardware decoding!
Almost all codecs (like H264) have hardware decoding disabled with this flag: FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING
HEVC is not supported even by software, with this flag:
BLOCKLIST_FEATURE_FAILURE_VIDEO_DECODING_MISSING
Do you know why? I’ve installed Fedora yesterday on this laptop with this GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics.
I had problems to configure all the peripherals, but the GPU worked out of the box, so I wasn’t expecting this result.
Thanks for the codec BTW 
If you install ffmpeg from rpm_fusion, you don’t need libavcodec-freeworld
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