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FFmpeg will be part of Fedora's official repos with Fedora 36 (src.fedoraproject.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Due to licensing issues, ffmpeg and its encoders/decoders were always a pain point to new users on Fedora (and it will still require some manual intervention to get everything working correctly due to those licensing issues), BUT it's halfway there now, because ffmpeg is finally coming to the main repos of the distro, with the codecs that they are able to provide without potential legal trouble.

See here a list of supported decoding and encoding codecs.

You'll notice a lack of H264 decoders there. That's the main pain point I was talking about. You'll still need RPMFusion to get it, but for most other cases you'll be able to get it directly from the repos.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like good news. What changed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tl;dr is that now, out of the box, Fedora users get ffmpeg-free, with all of the codecs that can be provided without licensing issues, and users only need to tap into RPMFusion of they really need those codecs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, so they're just shipping as much as they can as opposed to everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's cool!