I hope I’m posting this in the right section. I’m new to Fedora. I just installed the latest version of it (41) & I’ve worked out most of the little bugs & quirks, but I can’t seem to fix a video issue I’m experiencing.
Any video I playback is very laggy/choppy. It doesn’t matter if it’s YouTube or a local mp4 video file. It’s just choppy. I can barely watch video on Fedora 41.
I don’t know how to get all the information of my system, but I went into “About this System - Info Center” app & here’s what I was able to pull :
Graphics Platform : Wayland
Processors : 4 x Intel N100
Memory : 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor : Mesa Intel Graphics
Product Name : HP Laptop 15-fd0xxx
I did a Google search, and I found out something about having to install codecs & RPMFusion. I believe I did this correctly, and then I rebooted. But I’m still having the same problem.
Can anybody help me with this?
My guess is that you are still missing some of the codecs. Another user recently reported improved sound quality after installing the “gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld” codec: [Solved] Fedora plays audio mudded/muffled - #5 by eddie
I fixed a similar problem replacing wireplumber by pipewire-session-manager sudo dnf install pipewire-session-manager --allowerasing
This will erase wireplumber in the process.
I tried all the steps listed, however I simply could not get Fedora 41 to perform the most basic of functions (I.E : playing video without horrible lag).
The only reason I installed Fedora 41 on my laptop was because I just purchased a new laptop & it came pre-installed with the latest version of Windows on it. Anyways, the laptop I purchased was admittedly, a low-end laptop and Windows performed very poorly on it. So…I decided to try & install Ubuntu on it. For whatever reason, Ubuntu kept producing an error message after installation.
Long story short, after a lot of back & forth with Fedora 41, I simply could not get the video playback to be adequate. I installed the appropriate codecs (RPM Fusion), however…nothing worked! Fortunately, I posted on the Ubuntu Discourse website & several people helped me, and I now have flawless video playback on Ubuntu.
AFAIC, Fedora 41 is a complete waste of time. It’s a lousy OS. And it’s not for lack of trying. God knows I tried. But this distro was (hands down) the worst distro I’ve ever installed. What a craptacular OS. When something as simple as video playback becomes an issue, it’s time to re-evaluate the OS you’ve chosen to install.
Sorry for the rant. I’m just P.O’d about Fedora 41. What a horrible experience.