I think this is exactly why GNOME Is great. There are fewer options, they have a very specific vision for how it’s intended to be used, which makes it easier to test.
Totem doesn’t seem to be very actively developed. The last commit that wasn’t related to translations or Flatpak packaging is from September of last year: Commits · master · GNOME / totem · GitLab
They haven’t ported to GTK4 yet. They don’t seem very responsive to issues, either. I’m not really sure of the status of it.
Celluloid is a more actively-developed video player that has ported to GTK4. It’s not a part of GNOME Circle, though, and I wonder if it ever will be. It works great on GNOME anyway.
By design. Fedora can’t make it obvious because that would be illegal. I sympathize, and it’s part of why I held off trying Fedora for so long, but…there’s nothing they can do about it. Software patents suck.
The good news is that H.264 is going patent-free…this decade. That’s the last codec that really cripples the everyday experience (until 2017, it was mp3).
Me neither! The first time I did it, I did it wrong somehow. I screwed it up the second time, too. But eventually, I got it working.
I eventually decided that RPM Fusion is too much effort and decided to just use Flatpak because codecs work out of the box and I don’t need to do anything.
Fedora is only permitted to ship OpenH264 by the grace of Cisco. It’s the best we’ve got. Neal Gompa, a Fedora contributor, has asked for wider support in OpenH264 to improve the experience: Adding support for 10 bit depth video? · Issue #3616 · cisco/openh264 · GitHub
The situation is complicated, and everyone is just doing the best they can: H.264 Support in Fedora Workstation (by default) - #5 by catanzaro