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At some point, I had some issues converting some files with ffmpeg, most particularly videos on my Fedora install.

Turns out fixing this is really easy with the help of RPMFusion.

If you haven’t enabled it at the system installation, you can do that really easily via a single command which will install the free and nonfree variants of the repository:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpmCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

Now, you can just swap ffmpeg for the RPMFusion one like so:

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

This will install a bunch of codecs and replace the regular build of ffmpeg by a more permissive one (in terms of what you can do, not licensing).

Keep in mind that if you want to keep your system free (as in freedom), you might not want to do this.