• devfuuu@lemmy.world
    502·
    2 years 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.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 years ago

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

      That’s one reason why Flathub exists and definitively much easier than to migrate to Arch.

  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 years 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?

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.

  • Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de
    51·
    2 years 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·
        2 years 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·
    2 years 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.

  • uis@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years 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 :)