Computer Tips - ffmpeg: How to use full ffmpeg on RedHat/Fedora/CentOS?

Date: 2016feb29 Update: 2026oct24 OS: Linux Distro: RedHat/Fedora/CentOS Q. ffmpeg: How to use full ffmpeg on RedHat/Fedora/CentOS? A. Fedora comes with an incomplete ffmpeg. Its missing the non-free codecs. 1. If you don't already have it, install the rpmfusion repository. You'll want to install the free and non-free repros. The instructions are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration 2. Then replace ffmpeg-free with the full version from rpmfusion:
dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing