So, you just got Fedora, you set up your favorite browser or just rolled with the pre-installed Firefox.

You login to your Facebook and see that your friend tagged you in a new meme, it’s a video one, “OMG HE ACTUALLY DID IT 😂😂😂😂” reads the title.

You press play… It doesn’t play, the page sits motionless.

You start your search through the internet just to see “Flash doesn’t work” and derivatives, realizing you have nothing else to lose you clicked this post.

That brings us to the present and my short & shitty tutorial on how to let you see all the memes and YouTube streams you want!

It’s quite easy, the problem is finding what you want. The key in this mess is RPM Fusion, a project about all the packages left in the dust by Fedora & RedHat, the non-free packages (*cue the dramatic music*)

😤 Enough talking, show me how to install the damn codec! 😤

Alright, first step is to make RPM Fusion actually available on your machine, how? Click here and follow the two available steps choosing your Fedora version.

After (successfully) installing those .rpm’s you can go up to your terminal and tell him like it is, rude and crude, just how he likes it, whether you’re running Bash or Zsh, write the following:

sudo dnf install x264

He’ll ask you if it is your heart’s desire to install the shown packages, you say softly: “Yes” — And he goes ahead (blushing) and does it for you.

Assuming it all went well the next step is restarting your Firefox and try to finally watch the meme.