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Install multimedia codecs in fedora

If you are experiencing high CPU usage when watching videos on youtube, verify that the following packages are installed (requires RPMFusion repository):

# RPMFuison repositories
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.rpm

# Codecs
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel
sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia

CPU usage for i3-8100T is down from 80% to 50% with this video sample

linux fedora fedora33 youtube codecs cpu firefox | 16 Jan 2021

Fedora 33: font rendering

Packages from this repository improve font rendering in fedora a lot:

sudo dnf copr enable dawid/better_fonts -y
sudo dnf install fontconfig-font-replacements fontconfig-enhanced-defaults levien-inconsolata-fonts -y
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name "Cantarell 11"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name "Cantarell 11"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name "Inconsolata 13"

linux fedora fedora33 font | 30 Dec 2020