Re: NVIDIA Problem

[t_pol]

On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:32:47 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan  wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 18:49 +0200, t_pol wrote:
> > Yes I have ffmpeg and No I don't have vlcextras. (I'll install it
> > right away). Yes I have rpmfusion repos but the driver has been
> > installed from official NVIDIA site.
>
> As has been noted, the recommendation is to uninstall the "official"
> Nvidia package and reinstall the RPMfusion version. It's the same
> binary but with correct dependencies and will automatically produce a
> new binary module when your kernel changes (usually ...)

OK I'll surely do that.
The reason why I've decided to install the official driver
is because it uses DKMS vs AKMOD to rebuild on kernel upgrade.
> > The suggested tweaks to reencode every file sounds very annoying.
>
> I've never had to do that and can play H.264 videos with no issues. I
> have rpmfusion-free, rpmfusion-free-updates, rpmfusion-nonfree and
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates so all the required codecs are there.

OK
> > Coming to the royalties thing, I have to admit I didn't know that.
>
> The royalties are for commercial use.

OK
> poc

Thanks a lot for the hint.
Ciao,
Angelo

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