Firefox and Dragon video player (KDE) is having problems with video playback. Dragon app displays the warning about H264 codec being less efficient. I have 3rd party repos enabled and have followed rpmfusions multimedia guide, yet it did not installed anything aside from switching ffmpeg, am I missing something?
Some basic info, GPU details and some ffmpeg info
rpm -qa ffmpeg\*
ffmpegthumbs-25.12.3-1.fc43.x86_64
ffmpeg-free-7.1.2-4.fc43.x86_64
What do you mean for basic info? Also here is my hardware and software details from KDE settings:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.10-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 610M
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP Laptop 15-fc0xxx
That package is limited in the codecs it is able to use. The solution is shown here and basicly says to enable the rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree repos (instructions here) then run sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
The basic info that is most often asked for is shown here, use the command inxi -Fzxx and paste the results as preformatted text.
Install the mesa package if you require hardware acceleration
mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
mesa-vulkan-drivers-freeworld
and ffmpeg should be
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-libs
or
libavcodec-freeworld
It is weird, I went through the setup instructions for rpmfusion and I believe that this command have fixed it:
sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1
But, I also did install mesa drivers:
sudo dnf install mesa-va-drivers-freeworld