Fedora: Enable h264 video on Firefox with Fedora 28

The h264 video codec is the most popular codec on the internet right now. Unfortunately it's patent encumbered so it cannot be included in Firefox unless Mozilla were to pay a licensing fee. To enable h264 support in Firefox on Fedora 28 you'll need to enable the RPM Fusion repository.

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

After you've configured RPM Fusion you'll need to install some FFMpeg libraries to handle the actual h264 decoding:

dnf install ffmpeg-libs compat-ffmpeg28
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