New to Fedora (41) & am experiencing laggy/choppy video

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Hello,

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?

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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

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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.