• devfuuu@lemmy.world
    623·
    1 year ago

    Oh the good old days of suffering from a distro based on the US that has to follow the stupid laws of software patents and problems coming from all that shit.

    One of the top reasons to use Arch when I started because of the pragmatic approach of do not giving a fuck.

  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
    13·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t some distro remove hardware transcoding support for some non-free codecs for AMD hardware? I remember being really pissed at Manjaro for that a while ago when I noticed Plex was devouring my CPU. Maybe something related to that if you got AMD and hardware acceleration is forced?

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      True. They created x265 afaik. I literally only layer libavcodec-freeworld on Fedora Kinoite and thats all I need. VLC does everything. BUUUT the Flatpak is not official! And there is already VLC 4.0 out! So helping the Dev is always important, and Videolan would make it officially maintained like the snap, if the Flatpak devs approach them and explain everything etc.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh. I was reading OP’s problem, and didn’t understand. I’ve been on Fedora for a while and never experienced this, but VLC is one of the first programs I install on every new distro.

  • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
    121·
    1 year ago

    I ran into something like this the last time that I installed Fedora. They have (or used to have) a fairly hardcore stance about nonfree codecs, which includes anything licensed under MPEG LA.

    The codec in your screenshot probably doesn’t include support for H.265 playback - at the very least it isn’t in the list of formats. Here’s a guide that I googled for you: https://ostechnix.com/how-to-install-multimedia-codecs-in-fedora-linux/

  • uis@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure what player you are using and what decoder it uses, but I suggest checking if you have h265 support in ffmpeg. If you do, you can play with ffplay anyway :)

  • Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de
    52·
    1 year ago

    I just installed fedora a couple of days ago and this happens to me too…

    I guess I’ll try a different distro 🤷‍♂️ it was being a nice experience until I tried to play a video

      • Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean yes, it’s a way to solve playing offline videos, but it doesn’t seem to stop there. I found that codecs for playing videos on Firefox are also missing

        I could install Chrome as well or hack my way, but it makes me want to recommend the distro to beginners even less

  • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    41·
    1 year ago

    I had this problem, but after not being able to resolve it I tried Bazzite and found the gaming experience was much better there anyway, so switched. This problem doesn’t exist on that distro.