Solved Fedora users - VLC HEVC problem fix

Hi folks
some of you using latest releases of Fedora (either VM or as Host) might get VLC cannot play this codec when trying toplay an HEVC h-265 file.

Fix:

Uninstall any VLC you have on the OS.
Uninstall ffmpeg and ffmpeg-libs if they exist on your machine.
Enable the RPM fusion repo's
then sudo dnf install vlc ffmpeg ffmpeg --allowerasing

then reboot.

note you must add the --allowerasing option as shown above.

to enable repos etc - I assume that if you are using Fedora or any other Linux you know how to use the appropriate package managers.

DO NOT INSTALL VLC FROM FLATPAK / FLATHUB if using Fedora releases 41, 42 (current) or 43 (rawhide - pre-release)

Cheers
jimbo

There is a very good page to install that Codec and many more:

jimbo45 said:

DO NOT INSTALL VLC FROM FLATPAK / FLATHUB if using Fedora releases 41, 42 (current) or 43 (rawhide - pre-release)

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Why you don't recommend to install from there??

gy405 said:

There is a very good page to install that Codec and many more:

Howto/Multimedia - RPM Fusion

Why you don't recommend to install from there??

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I believe my post tells you how to install using the rpmfusion repos.

I think i mentioned "Enable the rpmfusion repos " !!!!!!!

if you'd have tried your suggestion out first on release 43 you'd have got an error :

hrafn@hrafn3:~$ sudo dnf update @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: multimedia
You can try to add to command line:
--skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

as for flatpak -- I'm not particularly keen of having all sorts of other stuff added to Linux distros -- eventually makes maintenance much more complex or impossible - I believe any serious Linux user should onl;y use recognized distro supplied sources or even learn to compile and install packages from the source - most Linux stuff is public domain and open source.

The VLC on rel 42 and 43 doesn't work using flatpak BTW. Using RPMfusion works as does self compiling.

Please anybody and I mean this kindly reading these posts or any others on the Forums- loads of time people just refer to websites etc -- that's fine BUT PLEASE TEST THE INFO WORKS - even if only on your own system.


Cheers
jimbo

Thanks for the updates @jimbo45 !

I'll check soon when I upgrade stable F41->42, if it's the case, usually it is.

Anyway, just to mention, I'm very pleased since DNF v5. Performance boost, faster and smoother downloads and installs.

Hopachi said:

Thanks for the updates @jimbo45 !

I'll check soon when I upgrade stable F41->42, if it's the case, usually it is.

Anyway, just to mention, I'm very pleased since DNF v5. Performance boost, faster and smoother downloads and installs.

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Hi there
If you are running any Windows VM's on Fedora hosts - remember the latest Virtio drivers (271) can now be downloaded directly from the Fedora site - these work as per VmWare tools / Virtual box additions to provide Windows VM's with better mouse, keyboard, video and Network capability - latesat version also is "signed" so you vccan install to latest versions of W11 on your Windows VM's.

Iso here :


Note also to run the virtual machine manager gui as a normal (i.e non root / sudo user) add yourself to these groups via sudu usermod -aG kvm, qemu,libvirt <your userid> - whether you use the modular virtual machine daemons (default now in rel 42/43) or the singular libvirtd daemon

Cheers
jimbo