Does this guide also apply to Fedora 38? [image] Installing plugins for playing movies and music As a Fedora user and system administrator, you can use these steps to install additional multimedia plugins that enable you to play various video and audio types. Prerequisites Enable the… …

[image] Angelo Schirinzi: Does this guide also apply to Fedora 38? Nothing has fundamentally changed since Fedora 37. [image] Angelo Schirinzi: RPMFusion repositories are enabled during installation [image] Adapting of Nobara changes to Fedora including OSTree version…

So I can copy/paste without problems?

That depends on the patent situation in your country. See “Warning” on the docs page you linked. If you decide no problem, the easiest is to enable rpmfusion free and non-free ( Configuration - RPM Fusion ), and then sudo dnf install vlc, which brings along all codecs you will ever need. In addition…

Ok, I prefer not to install further repositories. I prefer Fedora recommended repositories. If I run the commands listed in the guide which missing packages would be installed?

[image] Angelo Schirinzi: install further repositories Further than what?

I mean that I don’t want to install more repositories than those recommended and already installed by Fedora during installation. So I won’t be adding any more non-free repositories other than the ones I already have for Nvidia and Steam. That said, I don’t understand why the packages for openh264…

[image] Angelo Schirinzi: So I won’t be adding any more non-free repositories other than the ones I already have for Nvidia and Steam. Then you won’t get any nonfree codecs. Fedora does only ship free software. (neither do nvidia and steam repos you mention provide them). [image] Ange…

Exact! I want to use only free software without licensing issues. So by giving the 3 commands in the guide at the top of this discussion I should only get codecs/plugins that have a free license, am I right? (I repeat that I have no intention of activating non-free repositories)

If I try to use that sudo commands, this is the packages install list: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugin-libav gstreamer1-plugin-ugly-free gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-fluidsynth gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-zbar gst…

Let me just ask you two more questions: Why aren’t these free plugins installed by default? Why is the gstreamer1-vaapi plugin not installed? I don’t think hardware video acceleration will work without this plugin.

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vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev) May 9, 2023, 2:27pm 2

Nothing has fundamentally changed since Fedora 37.

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