I can not watch videos

Ask Fedora
1

Looks like any update break my system.

I can not watch more videos

here a VLC screen

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but When I run same video in Brave works.

How to fix? I already tried everything in the internet.

edit:

Also, I have multiple “Software” installed? This is normal?

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2

I really don’t think you did. Fedora ships without support for encumbered codecs.

Did you try installing VLC from flathub or rpmfusion?

3

H.264 is patented codec so you don’t have required codecs out of the box in Fedora. You need to install manually.

First you need RPMFusion repo to access proprietary drives and multimedia codecs.

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Now we replace the Fedora’s restricted package called ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg.

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

Now you will be able to watch your videos on VLC.

4

H.264 is provided on a basic Fedora install thanks to Cisco paying the licencing fees. It is in the Cisco repo which if you run dnf update you will see show up.

H.265 is not provided however, and your instructions will install that and make HEVC available.

VLC is great on Windoze, but I would use MPV on Fedora.

5

I use flathub for everything, but this also affect the default Gnome-Videos:

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I use Fedora SilverBlue

I installed MPV but same error, no Idea how to fix. but run videos in Brave and Firefox work good.

6

Sorry but we have package for it https://x0.at/G4St.txt .

7

sudo dnf install x264

8

i don’t know about flatpak but that should fix all your problem just read it fully