I just did an upgrade on my Fedora 38(-ish) machine and dnf wants to
replace the rpmfusion version of vlc:
Name : vlc
Epoch : 1
Version : 3.0.19
Release : 0.7.fc39
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:56:54 BST
Group : Unspecified
Size : 4639016
License : GPLv2+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Thu 10 Aug 2023 10:39:41 BST, Key ID e06f8ecdd651ff2e
Source RPM : vlc-3.0.19-0.7.fc39.src.rpm
Build Date : Sun 06 Aug 2023 16:42:50 BST
Build Host :
buildvm-07.virt.rpmfusion.net
Packager : RPM Fusion
Vendor : RPM Fusion
URL :
https://www.videolan.org
Summary : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server
Description :
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework
capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs,
and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in uni-cast or
multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
with a version from Fedora updates:
Name : vlc
Epoch : 1
Version : 3.0.20
Release : 4.fc38
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 189 k
Source : vlc-3.0.20-4.fc38.src.rpm
Repository : updates
Summary : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and
: server
URL :
https://www.videolan.org
License : GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND
: BSD-3-Clause
Description : VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and
: multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video
: formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming
: protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server
: to stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
(Actually the upgrade was a bit more complicated, replacing vlc-core
with vlc-cli and adding a bunch of plugins.)
Is there some advantage here? I don't want to lose the ability to
playback weird / proprietary stuff, which is (I assume) why I needed
to use vlc from rpmfusion.
Also is there a web page that discusses this stuff? Google search is
so full of "install vlc for fedora" spam sites that it's really hard
to find anything relevant.
Rich.
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