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= Installing plugins for playing movies and music
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Ankur Sinha ; Héctor Louzao ; The Fedora Docs team
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:revnumber: unknown
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:revdate: 2020-10-05
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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.
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WARNING: If you live in a country where software patents apply, such as in the United States or in Japan, you need to obtain multimedia codecs from a source that legally distributes patented software in your country. For example, see the Fluendo Codec Pack: link:https://fluendo.com/en/products/enterprise/fluendo-codec-pack/[].
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== Prerequisites
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* xref:rpmfusion-setup.adoc[Enable the RPMFusion repositories].
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== Procedure
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* 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-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
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sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel
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sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia
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----
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== Related information
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* 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 in RPM Fusion Free
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** MPV, available from the `mpv` package in RPM Fusion Free
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