I think I am going to switch to the flatpak version. Last time I remember I
used it it had all multimedia support by default. This way I would not have
to fight between rpmfusion and negativo repos.
But, I still don't understand given that ffmpeg is all open-source, what
prevents fedora from including it?

- Mehdi

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 7:59 PM Luya Tshimbalanga <l...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> Blender in Fedora repository is built with ffpmeg support disabled by
> default for legal reasons. Negativo which is one of co-maintainers provides
> nearly identical version with FFmpeg enabled accessible via
> fedora-multimedia branch.
>
> https://negativo17.org/repos
>
> Make sure to keep that repo disabled to avoid conflict with rpmfusion.
>
> Luya
> On 2019-10-31 11:09 a.m., Code Zombie wrote:
>
> Thanks Luya,
> I have all ffmpeg and gstreamer codecs installed. However, I think blender
> was installed by OpenShot before I actually installed ffmpeg and gstreamer
> codecs.
> So, it might be the reason why it does not play videos or music. But,
> reinstalling blender didn't help. Never had this issue before.
> - Mehdi
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:26 AM Luya Tshimbalanga <l...@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2019-10-31 5:05 a.m., Code Zombie wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > It seems that Blender 2.8 on Fedora 31 does not support sound and
>> > video playback and export.
>> > Does anyone have the same issue? Is that normal on Fedora 31?
>> >
>> > - Mehdi
>> >
>> Hello Mehda,
>>
>> Blender requires ffmpeg which cannot be legally included in Fedora
>> repository to effectively use multimedia due to US patents law. One of
>> best approach is either get ffmpeg without the offending codecs or
>> enable an alternative like gstreamer which is beyond the scope of
>> packaging process.
>>
>> --
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