Mpv: "[ffmpeg/video] No support for codec" errors in console

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Since I started experimenting with hardware video acceleration (hwdec=auto-safe) in mpv, ffmpeg has been outputting errors for various codecs (separate video files):

[ffmpeg/video] vc1: No support for codec vc1 profile 3.
[ffmpeg/video] h264: No support for codec h264 profile 100.
[ffmpeg/video] hevc: No support for codec hevc profile 1.

mpv itself occasionally reports:

Falling back to software decoding.

‘Direct rendering’ (HW acceleration) is enabled according to glxinfo.

amd-gpu-firmware.noarch 20230310-148.fc37

mpv 0.35.1 Copyright © 2000-2023 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on UNKNOWN
FFmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       57.28.100
   libavcodec      59.37.100
   libavformat     59.27.100
   libswscale      6.7.100
   libavfilter     8.44.100
   libswresample   4.7.100
FFmpeg version: 5.1.2
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It would be nice to know if you are running the limited codecs that are provided with fedora or if you have upgraded to the non-encumbered codecs that are provided from rpmfusion.

The limitations are partly from ffmpeg-free, libavcodec-free, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free all of which come directly from fedora and do not support any codecs that are patent, license, or copyright encumbered. These can be replaced with the same packages but with slightly different names from rpmfusion. (libavcodec-freeworld, ffmpeg, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly).
The related commands would be

  1. sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg
  2. sudo dnf swap libavcodec-free libavcodec-freeworld
    and
  3. sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-ugly

If not already done it might be necessary to enable the rpmfusion repos as shown here before running those commands.
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

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For future reference:

Installing plugins for playing movies and music :: Fedora Docs and
OpenH264 :: Fedora Docs