Rocky 9.8: VLC broken for x265 since upgrade to ffmpeg-7.1.5

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Since RPMfusion upgraded ffmpeg to ffmpeg-7.1.5, it seems vlc can no longer play x265 videos. I get:

“main decoder error: Codec `hevc’ (MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265)) is not supported.”

Possibly relevant packages.

vlc-plugin-pipewire-3-1.el9.x86_64
vlc-libs-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugins-extra-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugins-freeworld-3.0.24-1.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugins-base-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugin-lua-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-cli-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugins-video-out-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugin-ffmpeg-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugin-gnome-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugin-notify-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugin-pulseaudio-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-plugin-visualization-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-gui-qt-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-gui-skins2-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64
vlc-3.0.24-2.el9.x86_64

ffmpeg5-libavutil-free-5.1.9-3.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg5-libswresample-free-5.1.9-3.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg5-libavcodec-free-5.1.9-3.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg-libs-7.1.5-1.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg5-libavformat-free-5.1.9-3.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg-7.1.5-1.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg5-libpostproc-free-5.1.9-3.el9.x86_64
ffmpeg5-libswscale-free-5.1.9-3.el9.x86_64

Anyone else seeing this?

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Yes it happens from time to time, even if using rpmfusion on Fedora.

Doesn’t have anything to do with Rocky, since VLC is in EPEL, and the h264/265 codecs are from rpmfusion and neither maintained by the Rocky team.

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@Danny - open a bug report here https://bugzilla.redhat.com . Select Fedora → Fedora EPEL

4

Note that ffmpeg can sometimes be in two repos at once, and that appears to be the case here.

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Thanks all. I’ve moved this query over to Bugzilla / EPEL.