Bug 6846

Summary:	VLC is not decoding video on Fedora 39 KDE Spin
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	HV <runabout>
Component:	vlc-plugins-freeworld	Assignee:	Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	leigh123linux, runabout
Priority:	P1
Version:	f39
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description HV 2024-01-15 08:15:27 CET

Codec not supported:

VLC could not decode the format "hevc" (MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265))

&

VLC could not decode the format "h-264" (H-264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))

Comment 1 HV 2024-01-15 08:17:33 CET

I downloaded VLC player via Command line and from Discovery software centre, neither path provided a functional copy of VLC.

Comment 2 leigh scott 2024-01-15 13:02:02 CET

Post

rpm -qa vlc\*

Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2024-01-15 15:03:48 CET

vlc-plugins-freeworld is not required for H.264 or H.265 (HEVC) decoding, only encoding.

You are probably missing the vlc-plugin-ffmpeg package.

Comment 4 leigh scott 2024-01-16 16:57:56 CET

(In reply to HV from comment #1)
> I downloaded VLC player via Command line and from Discovery software centre,
> neither path provided a functional copy of VLC.

Do you have an amd gpu?, if so you will need to install mesa*freeworld.
Have you installed rpmfusion ffmpeg?

See

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryHowto%5Cb%29