(This only affects MESA, so only people using open source drivers)
Shortly before Fedora 37 release, Fedora dropped support for closed Codecs like H264, HEVC, VC1, this also includes other Red Hat distros like RHEL and CentOS stream, and probably clones like Rocky and Almalinux.
The reason is mainly to avoid Closed source software patents, Not every Distribution is affected though, as it depends on their legal jurisdiction, Ubuntu for example still includes Closed source codecs and Closed source drivers(when needed).
Enable RPMfusion
MESA Packages with closed source codecs aren’t available on the Official repos, but in RPMFusion, which is totally separate from Fedora and Red Hat, that’s why they can upload such packages.
Using the GUi
Click on the link below, and install the Free then the non-free repository matching your distribution.
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
using the terminal
Workstation
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| sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
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Silverblue
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| sudo rpm-ostree install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
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RHEL / CentOS
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| sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
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CentOS Steam 8 requires an additional step
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| sudo dnf config-manager --enable powertools
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RHEL 8 also requires an additional step
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| sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(uname -m)-rpms"
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Install Drivers with closed source codecs included
AMD
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| sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld
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If using i686 compat libraries (for steam or alike):
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| sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers.i686 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld.i686
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers.i686 mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld.i686
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Intel
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| sudo dnf install intel-media-driver
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not so recent hardware
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| sudo dnf install libva-intel-driver
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Nvidia
Nvidia’s driver doesn’t support VAAPI, so we need to use a bridge to translate VAAPI calls into NVDEC/NVENC
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| sudo dnf install nvidia-vaapi-driver
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Credits
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/proprietary-video-codecs-are-no-longer-hardware-accelerated-by-default-on-amd-gpus-on-fedora-37/28965
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia
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