How many of you *don't* use RPM Fusion codecs?

I and many others use the RPM Fusion codecs. Who here doesn’t?

For extra fun, who doesn’t use them and isn’t on Silverblue?

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I assume that only people that do not use fedora to view video or audio content can avoid the rpmfusion codecs.

What is behind your question?

Hm? I’m just being fun. Nothing really “behind” my question.

FWIW, I was perfectly fine without RPM Fusion when I used Silverblue – that’s why I added that stipulation. Firefox from upstream on Flathub has codecs and most of my life lives in a web browser.

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I don’t have them installed. I’m on Kinoite and find I have enough codec support by using appropriate flatpaks.

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I don’t normally add RPM Fusion repos; the AMDGPU Mesa freeworld vaapi black-screen stuff a while back made me consider it optional, and with Intel I haven’t needed it for a while!

I don’t like the idea of adding large repos if I can avoid it; RPM Fusion only really offered me HW-accelerated video playback on AMD and NVIDIA drivers.

This :point_up:

Works fine without too though, just enjoyed slightly lower cpu temps with hardware acceleration.

My systems are 50/50 split between having them and not having them. Out of the box, pretty much all the web content I view works out of the box these days. The main thing I wind up needing is mesa-va-drivers-freeworld for hardware accelerated H.264 for streaming. Eventually I’ll be able to drop even that with AV1 streaming.

I don’t need anything from RPM Fusion thankfully. My system runs great with vanilla Fedora. In the off chance that I would be bit by a missing codec I cover that off by using a flatpak for my browser.

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i need everything from RPM-Fusion to enable Rendering, CUDA on my Graphical work 3D, PhotoEditing, VideoEditing, Three.js developing and many others i cant do these without RPM-Fusion Drivers

My laptop’s old enough that AV1 isn’t supported (at least in hardware) :frowning:

Post installing Fedora, I enabled the rpm fusion, installed the codecs following the docs. Recently, I just wanted to ffmpeg convert a video from mkv to mp4, It was impossible, I had to AI search a lot to find how to install h.264 encoder/decoder on Fedora. In the end, it was very simple, just had to sudo dnf in libavcodec-freeworld

Fedora Workstation here. Dual AMD GPU and AMD CPU. I just use openh264 and that’s about it. Everything plays pretty well, idk. I don’t even see that thing on YouTube that says “This video cannot be played” or whatever. I do experience issues with largest resolutions, but that’s most likely because I have a potato laptop, lol.
and no, the apps I use for playing media are not flatpaks.

but I’m sorry to hear that your laptop doesn’t support AV1. That sounds painful.

To play some video you require the media player, the installed codecs and the GPU driver.

AV1 is mostly used by Youtube, the other codec being VP9.
Youtube can also stream in H264 but it must be enforced via some extension or disabling AV1 and VP9 in the browser settings.
In “about:support” Firefox shows all the available codecs and if they are decoded via software or via hardware.

My own PC, I should say the Intel GPU, can hardware decode only H264, that means anything else is decoded via software. It does not make an huge difference up to 720p because the hardware decoding unloads less than 10% from the CPU.

H264 is used by almost every other Web site.

I don’t use rpmfusion codecs (I run an old intel laptop that can’t even really decode 1080p video even with the codecs) but I do use rpmfusion for man-pages-posix. These are man pages describing the POSIX standard, useful if trying to write software that is portable between Linux, macOS, and others. Surprisingly, their license is not compatible with Fedora so one has to get them from rpmfusion.

Celluloid Flatpak for audio, video
Loupe Flatpak for images
Google Chrome for all the media online (bring the pitchforks!)

Yea, I’m on Workstation :sweat_smile: