On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:34:55 -0600
Jerry James <loganjerry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 7:07 AM Anil Felipe Duggirala
<anilduggirala(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Am I missing the Flash Player? What am I missing here?
Do you have ffmpeg installed? It is not available from Fedora for
license reasons, but you can get it from rpmfusion.
Jerry raises a good point. Fedora, by design, does not include any
packages that are patent or license encumbered. So, if the codec being
used by the videos that you are trying to watch is proprietary (say
h264), then it will not be included in Fedora. Does this mean that
Fedora users wear hair shirts, and don't watch such videos? :-) No.
There are repositories that package such software for Fedora, but
usually in jurisdictions where it is legal to do so. Thus
rpmfusion.org (and others).
If you go to rpmfusion,
https://rpmfusion.org/
and look at the packages there, you will find ffmpeg as Jerry
suggested, but you will also find versions of other packages that use
patent and licensed encumbered software. ffmpeg is the engine behind
many video and audio programs such as vlc, mplayer, audacity,
audacious, etc. It is also at rpmfusion that the proprietary nvidia
driver is packaged for fedora.