🎬 Supported Codecs
MPEG-2, VC-1 (WMV), some MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1. NVDEC cannot hardware-accelerate every video codec or every video format / profile.
Nvidia Linux open GPU kernel module (nvdec).
| Linux Distribution | What to do? Most suitable driver version: 610.57.04, 615.71.09 or 615.78.08 |
|---|---|
| Fedora 43 - Option 1 |
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/catpieleaf/kernel-p03/
sudo dnf copr enable catpieleaf/kernel-p03 && sudo dnf install kernel-p03-nvidia-open xorg-x11-server-Xwayland wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/615.78.08/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-615.78.08.run chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-615.78.08.run sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-615.78.08.run --no-kernel-modules --no-dkms --no-nouveau-check If you see the message “Multiple kernel module types are available for this system. Which would you like to use?”, choose MIT/GPL. sudo grubby --args="rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" --update-kernel=ALL |
| Fedora 43 - Option 2 | Enable RPM Fusion repositories first. 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 sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-open xorg-x11-server-Xwayland |
| Changelog | NVDEC-Play 1.0 |
🧩 Vulkan GLSL Shaders
+ Vulkan DeblockForge-8X8 2.0 + Vulkan ChromaFromLumaPrediction 1.1
These shaders are only applied when a video is upscaled. More shaders soon.
🌐 Fedora 43 only. (Oct 22 2026)
NVDEC-Play 1.0 NVDEC-Play is complex, it doesn’t work with AppImage (bundles the application along with its dependencies). More Linux distributions will be supported soon. AppImage file deleted for now.