Bug 2379757 - Video Sequencer unusable due to inefficient decoding of AVI/h264 movie files
Summary: Video Sequencer unusable due to inefficient decoding of AVI/h264 movie files
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: blender
Version: 42
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Flatpak SIG
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-07-13 12:55 UTC by Ondřej Míchal
Modified: 2026-06-08 17:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-06-08 17:52:03 UTC
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Description Ondřej Míchal 2025-07-13 12:55:05 UTC
I wanted to edit a video in the AVI/h264 format in the Video Sequencer. Upon loading the file and adding it to the timeline, seeking in the project because close to impossible, because every jump in the timeline causes a significant delay. After running with debug logging on, I suspect this is due to the use of OpenH264 for decoding the video (instead of FFMPEG?). During the duration of the freeze, I see a lot of decoding-related logs in the debug log.

I am actually surprised that loading a video in the AVI/h264 format is even possible in the Flatpak build, because the RPM build of does not allow it. When inspecting more closely the debug logs, it is due to OpenH264 not being able to create a decoder for the video file upon wanting to load it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Blender Fedora flatpak (launch from CLI with '-d --debug-all'
2. Open Blender
3. Go to 'Video Editing'
4. Add a AVI/264 video file to the timeline
5. Try to seek
Actual Results:
Seeking in the timeline is extremely choppy and makes the Video Sequence completely unusable for actual work.

Expected Results:
Smooth seeking in the timeline.

Additional Information:
; flatpak info org.blender.Blender

Blender - Free and open source 3D creation suite

          ID: org.blender.Blender
         Ref: app/org.blender.Blender/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 4.3
     License: GPL-3.0
      Origin: fedora
  Collection: 
Installation: system
   Installed: 1,1 GB
     Runtime: org.fedoraproject.Platform/x86_64/f42
         Sdk: org.fedoraproject.Sdk/x86_64/f42

      Commit: 801318b0efe226653f8405a9fbeb8d3a0f0236f6f80be55142ee542a125e63e4
     Subject: Export org.blender.Blender
        Date: 2025-03-31 14:12:43 +0000
      Alt-id: f4ce0b15d824f55cd83e86fe0eb994abbc1fa8c4fdcfc57b81adb0504a0dbfb1

Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2026-05-06 13:31:51 UTC
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Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2026-06-08 17:52:03 UTC
Fedora Linux 42 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2026-05-27.

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