Facing issues while updating fedora
openh264-2.4.1-2.fc40.x86_64: Cannot download, all mirrors were already tried without success
Cannot download Packages/o/openh264-2.4.1-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm: All mirrors were tried; Last error: Interrupted by header callback: Inconsistent server data, reported file Content-Length: 377, repository metadata states file length: 430357 (please report to repository maintainer)
Hi, perhaps refreshing the cache can help:
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
still not fixed
I think that typically means you’re being blocked from accessing the file and you’re getting an error message instead (hence the small size).
What do you see if you try to download it from here?: Index of /openh264/40/x86_64/os/Packages/o
Thnks bro now fixed
how did you fix it?
1.remove the existing openh264 package
2. download the package manually using a vpn
3. install that package using sudo rpm -i <package path>
4. install whatever else you were trying to install before
Done 
I solved using the idea of excluding openh264* from dnf updates
Follow the following commands
sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
then add the following at the end of a file
exclude=openh264*
It worked for me.
Hi, bro can you tell me how did you fix that , i have the exact issue with fedora 41
Searching for the message from the screenshot returns information about some services blocked by the government DPI/firewall, and this particular case must be a false positive.
To solve this kind of problem, you can utilize censorship circumvention methods like VPN, Tor, proxy, etc.
Here’s a simple workaround, assuming that your government does not block Tor:
sudo dnf install tor
sudo systemctl enable tor.service --now
sudo torsocks dnf upgrade --refresh
it’s working thank you bro
Thank you so much!
Are you sure about that? I read it only works for WebRTC.
You are right , it is used for real-time encoding/decoding like webRTC and media streaming etc
What codec is then used for “usual” high-profile h264 content?
ffmpeg is widely used for encoding/decoding and playing video files (mpv/vlc) and in tools like yt-dlp
But ffmpeg is a Software codec, isn’t it?
FFmpeg provides an interface to both software and hardware codecs.It can encode/decode using software (e.g., libx264, libx265) or via hardware (e.g., h264_nvenc, hevc_qsv, vp9_va)
I wonder if we need to apply override commands here when transitioning to rpmfusion and what will be the effect (BTW, they are marked as Software codecs, still). So far I didn’t do that: