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Fedora 18 missing Video decoder audio decoder codec installing
First You need to enable RPM fusion repositories. This can be done by
sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
or manually install from
& download rpm link are given below
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-branched.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-branched.noarch.rpm
If any missing gpg key error come like this:
GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-18-x86_64
GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-18-x86_64
Goto below site :
& download gpg key
http://rpmfusion.org/keys?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-18
http://rpmfusion.org/keys?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-18
Copy the same to /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ & rename to key name as shown in error.[Need root privilege to copy files]
In case you are installing i386, please rename the file name accordingly.
If fedora 18 beta installed, then install ‘gstreamer1’ is required instead of gstreamer. So search & install gstreamer1 codec
sudo yum install gstreamer1 gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-ugly
Same step, but install following for fedora 17 :
sudo yum install gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd
Alternatively, you can also install and use vlc or smplayer to view mkv videos–both can decode H.264
sudo yum install vlc
sudo yum install smplayer
Note: The new totem 3.6 uses gstreamer 1.0 & there is no gstreamer1-ffmpeg package in repository. So you have to use vlc or smplayer till package comes.
Update : Install gstreamer1-libav for ffmpeg packages.