Video codec H.264

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When using Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma, the H.264 video codec was not found in Dragon Player. Please fix this in a future update. :slight_smile:

Fedora is great—keep it up and keep improving!

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What is the output of dnf list --installed *ffmpeg* *264* *265* *gstreamer*

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these codecs are not part of the iso you download for a reason, it is software fedora cant redistribute for legal reasons, there is alot of that kind of software, there was a time when distros couldnt redistribute nvidia drivers

this is something you cant fix, it is a legal situation, it is annoying, but happens for a reason, and it happens on other dsitros too

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https://rpmfusion.org/ is the solution

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Rpnfusion is the legal workaound, not a solution in the sense that fedora cannot ship the rpmfusion packages by default.

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They said 264, which comes from Cisco repo.

Maybe they meant 265 though?

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Fedora installations cannot include the H.264 codec for licensing reasons.
However, fedora installs a package noopenh264 and the very first online update after installation replaces that package with the openh264 package from the fedora-cisco-openh264 repo, as can be seen here.

Packages altered:
  Action   Package                                Reason     Repository
  Install  openh264-0:2.6.0-3.fc44.x86_64         Dependency fedora-cisco-openh264
  Install  mozilla-openh264-0:2.6.0-3.fc44.x86_64 Dependency fedora-cisco-openh264
  Replaced noopenh264-0:2.6.0-4.fc44.x86_64       Dependency @System

If you tried running Dragon Player before performing an update then not having that codec is user error. Update your system and the H.264 codec will be installed.

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did you blamed a new user for not knowing all that? seriously? user error? honestly, the things people write sometimes.

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Good to know. I never knew this. Does it mean that RPMFusion codecs are not needed? For which codecs do I need the codecs from RPMFusion? :thinking:

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H265 is the main one needed from RPMFusion.

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Thanks for the clarification! So I stay with installing codecs and drivers from RPMFusion. :+1:

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Yes, stay with rpmfusion.
You need to either upgrade ffmpeg to the full version from rpmfusion
sudo dnf install ffmpeg --allowerasing (which gets everything needed and removes the conflicting fedora packages) recommended
or install the libavcodec package separately
sudo dnf install libavcodec (which pulls in almost all the codecs available.)

I personally have added the x264, x265 and libheif-freeworld packages which do provide for some additional codecs beyond those included with libavcodec.

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Thanks a lot, too! :heart:

Normally, I go the “manual way” from the configuration page and install what matches my system specs. :wink: