How to Install Full FFmpeg on Fedora 41 and Fix Kdenlive Rendering Issues

Hello Readers, I have a case where the FFmpeg installed on Fedora 41 turns out to be the free version instead of the full one. As a result, when I tried to render a video to MP4 in Kdenlive, it failed—even Kdenlive couldn't render videos to MP4 or MKV at all.

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Here's the solution:

1. Open the terminal and enter these commands:

   sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm  
   sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm  
   

2. Then, replace ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg using this command:

   sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing  
   

That's it! Just close Kdenlive and restart it to try rendering your video to MP4 or MKV again.

Hope this short post is helpful, and see you in the next one!