
Understand that, sooner or later, they will have to configure that Not be set up to obtain packages from RPM Fusion and will not help users That is the process that is required now a new Fedora installation will They need it and figuring out how to enable it themselves. Repository so that users need not go through the process of learning that Zaitsevĭown later by saying that Fedora should simply preload the RPM Fusion Remotely related to multimedia without RPM Fusion packages". Is common knowledge that Fedora is/was effectively useless for anything

Common multimedia needs like "play a video"Ībsolutely need to work without rpmfusion, and we need Fedoraĭevelopers testing this to make sure it works. Inexperienced Fedora users, who expect multimedia to work Vitaly, your suggestions to enable rpmfusion are not helpful for That the proper solution is for users just to enable RPM Fusion. The H.264 support in RPM Fusion isīetter as well. That the H.264 codec found there doesn't require the various convolutions But it was not lost onĪnybody that this problem does not occur if the version of FFmpeg shipped As Urpelainen noted: " This is unexpected,īecause one would expect that installing any variant of ffmpeg wouldīehavior looks like a bug in Firefox, which is unable to find the OpenH264ĭecoder found in the ffmpeg-free package. Installing Fedora's ffmpeg-free package, though, caused those The Firefox browser was able to play the videos he wanted to watch. May not be pleasing to all involved, however.Īt the beginning of June, Otto Urpelainen postedĪbout some surprising behavior he had observed on his system. Legal reasoning may be providing a way out of this problem that way

The Fedora project, but it still puts Fedora at a disadvantage relative toĭiscussion on video support, though, shines a light on how some surprising Situation has improved over the years as the result of a lot of work within

That much of the media that users might find on the net is unplayable. Specifically,Īnything that might be encumbered by patents is off-limits, with the result Strictly limits the type of software that Fedora can ship. Long been hampered by Red Hat's risk-averse legal department, which

Fedora's objective to become the desktop Linux distribution of choice has
