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= Installing plugins for playing movies and music
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Ankur Sinha ; Héctor Louzao ; Neil Gompa (ngompa)
:revnumber: F39 and newer
:revdate: 2023-12-05
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:category: Administration
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:tags: How-to, Plugins, Multimedia
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:page-aliases: assembly_installing-plugins-for-playing-movies-and-music.adoc
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[abstract]
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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
* Use the `dnf` utility to install packages that provide multimedia libraries:
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sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
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sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel
sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia
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== Related information
* 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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