Installing plugins for playing movies and music
Ankur Sinha, Héctor Louzao, Neil Gompa (ngompa)
Version F39 and newer
Last review: 2023-12-05
As a Fedora user and system administrator, you can use these steps to install additional multimedia plugins that enable you to play various video and audio types.
Procedure
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Use the
dnf
utility to install packages that provide multimedia libraries:sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia
Related information
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There are also media players that include all relevant codecs by themselves. Consider using one of the following for offline video viewing:
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VLC, available from the
vlc
package -
MPV, available from the
mpv
package
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