Install DaVinci Resolve on ANY Linux Distro

[@MichaelNROH]

Dependencies for Resolve: sudo dnf install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libxcrypt-compat xcb-util-renderutil xcb-util-wm pulseaudio-libs xcb-util xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms libxkbcommon-x11 libXrandr libXtst mesa-libGLU mtdev libSM libXcursor libXi libXinerama libxkbcommon libglvnd-egl libglvnd-glx libglvnd-opengl libICE librsvg2 libSM libX11 libXcursor libXext libXfixes libXi libXinerama libxkbcommon libxkbcommon-x11 libXrandr libXrender libXtst libXxf86vm mesa-libGLU mtdev pulseaudio-libs xcb-util alsa-lib apr apr-util fontconfig freetype libglvnd fuse-libs AMD GPU: sudo dnf install rocm-openCL NVIDIA GPU (with RPM Fusion): sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda *Note: Make also sure that your user is part of the group "render" on your host! (usermod -aG render {your username})

[@Contmotore]

Omg, it's finally running! Resolve only gave me one pop-up error "unable to load plugin: USD.plugin libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", so I had to install libXt as well. Wish me good luck, time to try out! 🤞

[@shadowseek27]

what do you mean by "*Note: Make also sure that your user is part of the group "render" on your host!" ?

[@danonino2003]

Can you do a guide for SteamOs from scratch?

[@flamingscar5263]

@@danonino2003 the great thing about Distrobox is that the setup is the same on every distro, although SteamOS is a bit of a different distro so getting distrobox running on SteamOS may end up the harder part, but once Distrobox is installed the rest would be the exact same

[@JuanPerez-lg8yl]

@@flamingscar5263 I Installed fedora 39 on my Steam Deck, was a s***, so I installed fedora 38 and after I installed all the libraries and after that resolve works with images and sounds but no with videos 🥲 so I installed all the video codes and still nothing...🙃

[@koromau3854]

I appreciate you always keeping it real man, no clickbait or linux fanboyish just honest feedback and solutions!

[@Siltprogramation]

Great video! This is a good solution, however, a better one would have been for the developpers to pack the application in a flatpack, app image or snap.

[@MichaelNROH]

Indeed

[@maviniii]

I totally agree!

[@friedrichhayek4862]

Never snap

[@no_name4796]

Or put the damn dependecies by default

[@adam91303]

Maybe it's worth writing to the blackmagic developers? :)

[@SunCrushr]

FYI, if you get a fuse error when running the installer, you need to install fuse, not just fuse-libs.

[@jaizon]

Thank you!!!!!1

[@Contmotore]

Thanks Sir

[@derakte4183]

You are a lifesaver man!

[@SunCrushr]

@@derakte4183 Glad my old comment helped!

[@MastermindAtWork]

Wait minute, now thinking about it, this method might not just work for Davinci Resolve but for Autodesk Maya as well since that software is primarily supported on RHEL and CentOS.

[@MichaelNROH]

It can, if you can figure out the dependencies. For resolve it was quite easy since the installer tells you what you need if no optional version is installed.

[@dewanata_armoon]

@@MichaelNROH hello mister what the equivalent for orcm-opencl for intel UHD grapich? does davinci resolve works with intel gen10 mobile?

[@MrGamelover23]

​@@dewanata_armoonIt won't officially support integrated graphics on Linux, but it will on Windows. There are ways to work around it for amd, idk about intel.

[@halopghoul2751]

@@MrGamelover23 and how to launch with the vega 8 built-in? are there solutions for linux?

[@gmt1]

This is really cool, but they really should just provide Davinci Resolve as a Flatpak or Snap package.

[@MichaelNROH]

100% they should. Even if they are just focused on enterprises, they already have to support three operating systems. While they are similar, they are not identical, so flatpak would even lessen the workload for them.

[@MrGamelover23]

​@@MichaelNROHWell, it seems that right now, they literally only support one distro: Rocky Linux.

[@pensive_]

Been trying for 4 years to get it going on MX as I dont want a separate server running Redhat just for Davinci. I cannot thank you enough for this solution. I can now eliminate an entire dedicated server and run Davinci on the server it is supposed to. Excellent.

[@pensive_]

The advice sure is the right way to go thank you. I managed to get as far as installing Davinci, but it chokes. Its for reasons, not to do with your advice. It is QT and Python again at work here. If I can get Davinci to start up, this will be great. Your advice at least helped me to get this far. However, using the exact steps you did with the exact Fedora etc, Davinci wont run because of the following error. " This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb. " Strange that I got to this unresolvable Python/QT nonsense following the same advice. Wherever Python and or QT goes, goes trouble - guaranteed. They are half baked languages.

[@FengLengshun]

I love how everyone is now loving Containers. Please also try out Conty (basically distrobox as a single binary), Junest (Arch Distrobox but proot/chroot based instead of container based), and runimage (similar to Conty but focused on overlayfs). They're all pretty great.

[@digicinematic]

Wave 1: VMs, Wave 2: Containers, Wave 3: WASM and WASI.

[@matthiasbendewald1803]

Awesome, thank you for the detailed and good explanation. You or someone else could also setup the container and put it on a container registry, that way it would make it even easier for everyone else and future you to get it running. Maybe leave away the program itself... Or put together a docker file so that it is easier for everyone, too.

[@rjlarussa4136]

You saved me hours and hours of headaches of keeping Resolve running on a rolling release distro. Thank you!!!!

[@MichaelNROH]

Sorry for the audio quality in today's video. I tried my best to get rid of the echo, caused by the new mic, but I couldn't do more sadly 😔

[@DullJoker]

Hey man, no probs🤙

[@shock59]

It is not really that bad, however adding background music could possibly make it less noticeable.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

:3 Awesome! I've wanted to use DaVinci since I've wanted to get into editing videos for personal and to make money, and I'm part Italian/Greek (also, Da Vinci was vegetarian, and I'm vegan, so that's cool), but I've heard it barely works. This video was in my feed. DaVinci looks so much better than Shotcut, and Kdenlive, though I've used them a bit with not much complaint (picking what to edit isn't so easy, and effects aren't so easy to figure out).

[@RandomFandomOfficial]

Does it support H.264? Will it run well on older/lower end hardware (I7 7700HQ, GTX 1050, 16GB RAM)?

[@friedrichhayek4862]

This is funny, because the installer is an appimage

[@raygan]

Hell yeah, I was banging my head against the wall trying to install Resolve on Fedora 39 until I found this video. Thanks!

[@VinylRescue]

With a bit of beating about the head and shoulders I got Resolve running great on Zorin 17! I do have to use Shutter Encoder to convert MP4 to MOV and then back to MP4 before uploading my 4K video to KZbin.

[@demanuDJ]

I'm not using DaVincii Resolve but it helped me with installing other propietary software which works with specific libs from ubuntu 18.04

[@BLC2022]

Help! im in the installation wizard and it says: Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory , and in the terminal: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host brawllaunchchannel _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host brawllaunchchannel Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket QWizard::setField: No such field 'options.uninstall' QWizard::field: No such field 'options.uninstall'

[@SunCrushr]

You, sir are a legend. I can now run Resolve on whatever distro I want. This is awesome.

[@dexgaming6394]

Congrats, 10k subs!

[@MichaelNROH]

Thanks 😉 Psst, there is a reason why I haven't acknowledged it yet 🤫

[@wurstgriller]

hi, after doing everything exactly like in this video, i still got the error "unsupported gpu processing mode" within davinci. so i searched with dnf like this: "dnf search opencl" - it found a package named "mesa-libOpenCL" and i installed it (i'm on a radeon rx 7800 xt-gpu) like this: "sudo dnf install mesa-libOpenCL" and voila: Resolve opened and worked for me! Very great tut @Michael

[@wurstgriller]

Edit: now i got a problem within resolve: i can import via -> media -> file, but cant play the video nor creating any timeline which works. i also tried to convert the video-file to .mov-format but that also not works. HELP!!

[@JumperTheHero]

@@wurstgriller This is what I am getting too. I haven't been able to fix it yet. It apparently has to do with the AMD drivers not being supported for Davinci Resolve.

[@Beryesa.]

Once rusticl becomes stable and saves us from proprietary amd opencl, flatpak gets better GPGPU support and flathub sorts out the payments, imagine a single click from gnome software/plasma discover and voilà! Until that day, thanks :D Though, fedora 37 support will and with fedora 39 release so... Something more LTS (redhat/centos/rocky) could be better maybe.

[@RubyRoks]

Glad i came across this. I'm getting closer and closer to tossing Windows and a number of other programs in the trash and wanted to make sure some of my more necessary applications will play ball.

[@MichaelNROH]

[@Noel_FGC]

this looked like it was working (im on an nvidia gpu) and i loaded into the project manager, but after closing it and reopening it through the shortcut it doesn't appear to work, and launching it manually through the terminal says unsupported gpu processing mode (i checked, nothing has been uninstalled)

[@somethingbigger001]

Never had problems on linux mint. Install and done.

[@segvet9729]

good for you

[@bobd2028]

Advantage of Just Works distro.

[@--Morpheus--]

Thanks, trying it out today!

[@fabienmargerie6815]

Well done and thanks Michael for your super work, see you soon! 👍😎👋

[@Combo_Food]

So I’m kinda new to using Linux, I’m really stuck on the part where you put the distribution around 5:20. It ask me if. I want to pull the image, when putting y I get an error and when putting n it makes me put another command that also doesn’t work. Just really confused and in dire need of help

[@zetetic-astronomer]

For arch based distros (including SteamOS 3) you need to run: xhost +si:localuser:$USER

[@TheRatRDR]

I get "error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" when i try to run it

[@PixelSheep]

same - does anyone have some ideas on what to do?

[@PixelSheep]

this solved it for me "sudo dnf install ocl-icd" - hope this helps! :)

[@grilo4691]

YO DUDE, THANKS A LOT! I TRIED SO MAMY TIMES TO DOWNLOAD RESOLVE AND NO ONE WORRKED, BUT YOUR VIDEO SAVDE ME, THANKS A LOT!!!!!

[@linoxyard]

There's also a project called flatpak-resolve, which packages Resolve into a flatpak. That's the way I've been using it for a while

[@youtube.user.1234]

Does it work properly as a flatpak?

[@linoxyard]

@@youtube.user.1234 The main program does, with an nvidia card and proprietary drivers (you need flatpak nvidia drivers installed of course). The other apps, like Raw benchmark don't work, and I hear there are issues with AMD rocm opencl drivers (probably the cause is no flatpak'd rocm)

[@sg96951]

Followed your tutorial but still failed to install (on latest linux mint) I got following error: uthorization required, but no authorization protocol specified qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb.

[@MichaelNROH]

Please check if you have actually done all the steps mentioned in the pinned comment. This is usually an NVIDIA error

[@garretthuffman2412]

​@@MichaelNROHhaving this issue but I'm not using Nvidia. I'm using the opencl drivers. Any help to point me in the right direction would be great!

[@ahmseb]

Thanks for your video it helps me install peace of software on Fedora that I've been trying to install for ages and now with your help I've installed it with ease👍

[@sNiksnakYT]

hey i installed all dependencies but after launching DVR the timelines do not load. i cant import clips or anything

[@pickledoreos]

it seems to have installed fine but there's no icon and when it launches I get the error "Unable to load plugin: USD.plugin". The timeline is also invisible for some reason...

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Thanks for the video. This got me 95% of the way, but I just couldn't get Resolve to properly recognize my NVidia GPU (could be the drivers I'm using on Linux Mint on my host machine lagging behind, I can get all the way up to loading Resolve, but it then shouts at me about my GPU settings and i'm given the option to change settings that does nothing) I still think I can figure out what's wrong here, so this still helped massively with that.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Should add some more notes. If you're running an nvidia GPU, when you create the distrobox, add --nvidia at the end of the command, that will solve many of your problems.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

I got it all working in the end :D

[@gungun974]

I always failed to do that on every distro I haved. THANKS YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL ❤

[@MichaelNROH]

Happy to help

[@Steblu74]

Michael- There are hundreds of people trying to run Davinci Resolve on Linux and trying to st up their GPU drivers (either Nvidia or AMD). Could you create a video showing a step-by-step walk thru on this process, either with Ubuntu Cinnamon or Debian? I don’t even CARE which distro you use, GPU acceleration seems to be the problem.. Thanks

[@trapexit]

Containers aren't really a specific thing. It is a name for the set of features Linux has to isolate resources or create namespaces of resource for a process. "Containers can run on your PC like any other program." .... that's because they are just a program.

[@SportezMemes]

i did that but it doesnt open , it looks like it has opend on the dash but there is no display or anything and then it closes

[@Nullifer]

I've finished and the app opens, however I get unsupported GPU processing mode. I'm on NVIDIA, can't seem to get Nvidia drivers inside the distrobox

[@zhanko73]

You should use the --nvidia parameter, however regardless the nvidia-smi see the video card, DRS still show unsupported GPU processing mode. Here is the command that I used which was a step closer to the solution: distrobox-create --nvidia --name Resolve-Fedora-37 --image fedora:37

[@RobotoSkunk]

For some reason, distrobox didn't work for me, but uninstalling mesa-libOpenCL and installing rocm-opencl in Fedora 40 worked without needing to do anything else to fix OpenCL problem. To install it, I had to remove some broken DaVinci Resolve libraries and ignore libraries check

[@protossss]

Hi! I tried to follow your instructions on ubuntu 24.04. AMD 7800 XTX, Gnome/wayland. I used Fedora as explaind. I have installed DRS 19.0.2. Installation went Fine. GPU is detected. But when I try to add some Media (e.g. JPG file) it DRS only shows a white Frame with no content. Any idea?

[@dummag4126]

Are you shure there isn't difference in prestazioni respect an installation directly on rockylinux without container?

[@pantarei.]

Why it is so complicated? There is no way that a regular Windows user would accept something like that. More - DaVinci for linux does not support MP4 and AAC format. Why nobody mention that?

[@AndRei-yc3ti]

Because you should blame the dev for making it this way. And AAC and MP4 works on the paid version.

[@douglasbuchanan2973]

PEOPLE WANT THINGS THAT WORK and LAST A LONG TIME!!!!!Thanks for the INFO

[@tankfire20]

I am trying to use Davinci resolve but I just found out it does not work on my distribution. Why do I have to make a virtual machine of a different linux distro just to make this program work It's all Linux right? Why is there no compatibility, always missing dependencies, and random bugs that require me to be super wizard log file reader to figure out.

[@DominikLuebben]

Resolve flawlessly installs and runs with my AMD 7900xt with the Fedora 37 container, however, the timeline and controls aren't displayed correctly. I setup distrobox on Fedora 39 with curl and podman, because it wasn't possible to use the available package. Do you know how I can fix that? Might it be a podman issue and I should try docker?

[@SimiVideoCreator]

Whenever I install any distro using distrobox create It ends up giving me: "bash: exec: startx: not found" when trying to enter... Anyone know what I can do?

[@blkspade23]

While the content here overall is great, for your personally described use case, the rocm bits are separate from the actual AMD drivers. So you can keep the opensource display and vulkan drivers either way.

[@shankar66]

bro i am trying this for 2 days please help me. i have ubuntu. i installed distrobox and set everything as you told. but when i was installing nvidia drivers it gave error it was saying 185mb more diskspace required. by the way more than 25 gb was free in the disk.

[@leeuca]

The thing is, that you dont need to install the drivers at all. I was tinkering with this a lot. It seems that you just need to make sure, that the host has the most recent drivers + cuda installed. Then go into the container and use sudo dnf install ocl-icd-devel and in my case this fixed the issue! I'm running this on Ubuntu 24

[@GreenScreenExplorer]

This is awesome, Thank you for sharing

[@nikospace4355]

Hey, so I have everything installed, but im getting an error saying that it couldn't initialize OpenGL, despite me having the Nvidia drivers installed. Do you have any fix for this?

[@ginjalkesayangan]

help! in my setup it says DaVinci Resolve could not initialize OpenGL. i'm using nvidia GPU and done the 'sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda'

[@MichaelNROH]

The driver versions between distrobox and the host need to match it seems. You can download the drivers from the website and use them in distrobox

[@cannibalholiday]

I'm sooooo close. All dependencies met, but I can't do the install because it can't go online to authorize it. Apparently the container doesn't support my ethernet out of the box, and I'm stumbling over what to do to get it working.

[@Canleaf08]

So fedora is the better distro for DaVinci? I used Xubuntu for that, got it almost launched. Good idea with the container approach.

[@MichaelNROH]

For AMD hardware I found it to be the best due to the rocm-opencl package that just works. Some other distros also have similar packages (or in the AUR), but many of them don't include everything Resolve needs.

[@Zadian.]

I followed all the instructions, but I wasnt able to see my timeline at all, it was just a blank panel. Any ideas?

[@mamaelas]

I got stuck before any chance of getting it installed. I got distrobox with podman though Pamac in Manjaro, then followed the steps to allow podman to work rootless and then proceeded to install Davinci in the container. But I can´t get into the installation because it says that ¨It can´t be executed. File does not exist¨, like bash can´t found it, even if the .run file is recognized in the folder when I use de ls command and also I use ./ as it recommended in the video. As well I did the chmod +x procedure. May you know what is the problem? Anything seems to work

[@yjk_ch]

I've already got Resolve working using MakeResolveDeb and AMD proprietary drivers, but at least now I know alternative method when stuff breaks :D The only bummer about Resolve on Linux is that there's no H.264 export support unless you have NVIDIA GPU. I can reencode output to H.264, but still.

[@ОгнянДимитров-с4г]

I did everything according to your instructions and some additional reading and removing old libraries and Davinci finally starts but when I go to Memory and GPU section in preferences there is no opencl option available. I'm out of solutions at the moment so any help will be much appreciated. P.S. The version I have is DR 19 public beta and my gfx card is ASUS Radeon RX580 8gb. I've installed rocm-opencl as well.

[@iguanaman08]

Managed to get it installed on Linux Mint after a couple of hours. When I drag an MP4 clip onto the timeline, only the audio appears. Can't figure out what's missing.

[@MichaelNROH]

Did you buy the studio edition? The free version doesn't come with H.264 support which is the codec that is often being used for mp4 by default.

[@iguanaman08]

@@MichaelNROH Thanks for the reply. I only have the free version. I guess I'll have to convert the video files. 😬

[@MichaelNROH]

@@iguanaman08 I would recommend using a different codec going forward. With a decent rig, AV1 is an option, even without hardware acceleration

[@red_geist9741]

I just wish BlackMagic would do better at supporting Linux. This is pretty ridiculous to still be this much of a pain in 2024.

[@MichaelNROH]

We need a lot more people in the industry that use more modern Operating Systems for this to happen it seems. The one's that use the Linux version in production (and I mean big ones) just use the old Rocky Linux one, it's really only suitable for this one use case.

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

​@@MichaelNROH Do you mean download the ver 9.4 Desktop/Workstation Live Images ?

[@Totallynotmwa]

Installing rocky linux inside of distrobox helped but i cannot get the nvidia drivers/its hard (Had to install with --nvidia and ocl-icd)

[@NotGabe001]

I really hope one day they make an open source version of Resolve. Then maybe we won't have to deal with this and just install it from the repo. I know it won't happen, but I can dream.

[@MichaelNROH]

It wouldn't even need to be open source. Flatpaks and non-free software are already part of the Linux ecosystem

[@proctoscopefilms]

Olive video editor is supposed to be that. It's very ambitious, but it's stalled already.

[@JahidulIslam]

You can build flatpak yourself.

[@joshbarton]

Distrobox aside have you had any issues getting Resolve to work in Linux with a Radeon card? I have 6950xt moving over from a 2080S. None of my media will import into Resolve. If it does import the clips are blank and only load an audio track on the timeline. I am using the free version and I've discovered the codecs are very limited. Unfortunately it doesn't matter how many times I try to convert it to a listed supported codec it does this exact same thing when I import the video files into the software. The specifications on gaining all the codecs on Linux state you need the Studio version and an nVidia card so I just want to verify if you'd had any issues before I drop $300.00 on the Studio version only to find out it still doesnt work with my Radeon card.

[@MichaelNROH]

The problem with Resolve, especially on Linux is it's focus on professionals like editors in movie studios, etc. Industy standards for web formats like the H.264 video codec or AAC for audio just won't work with the free version (the latter one not at all), so you got to treat it more professionally. I myself use the Studio Edition with a Fedora 39 distrobox container for a dependecy consistency and record my videos with H.264 (mkv) and PCM as the codec

[@t0uchme343]

I got this video sneak into my recommendeds so I hopped into AUR out of curiosity to see if I'd get problems during installation. I am not a content creator or anything so I won't be actually using it but, true enough, I got some blank, white, apparently welcome screen before I got into the program. I killed the white overlay of death and it was working afterwards.

[@creatfunandunique]

hi I have tried Av1 but I found out that quality was reduced are there any other codec or something so the quality doesn't decrease too large and size doesnt also become big I have also tried codec like h264 but the file is not opened by davinci ........ My problem is Most of the time i got mp4 files and have to convert to mov using xdcam hd 422 which make file 5-6 times larger as compared to mp4 file and it makes my davinci slow So are there any other method so size doesnt increase too much and quality doesn't decrease

[@kimmysander2447]

To anyone running this on a laptop getting the error GPU memory full, while having literally nothing in your timeline, go back to your bios, and disable hybrid mode so Only your dedicated GPU is active - yes your pc will eat more power, but davinci will work!

[@chrisp267]

Hey Michael, vielen Dank für deine tollen Videos! Eine Frage: Ich habe alles genauso gemacht, wie im Video beschrieben, beim Start von resolve erscheint jedoch das Fenster, welches besagt: "Unsupported GPU Processing Mode". Ich kann auch meine GPU nicht auswählen, sie wird nicht angezeigt. Ich habe eine Radeon RX 7900XTX. Hast du eine Idee? Danke!

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

Good day Michael, what system are you running on your pc? If you run fedora directly is the container needed? I am a windows user with grave concernes about coming developments and privacy when it comes to windows. I do not know the first or last thing about linux and there major inconsistencies when you use the term Linux and DaVinci Resolve together... Sorry for the late reply, your video is more than a year old but I am now being forced to look into this option as it seems windows is set to infringe on it's users privacy in a few months time. Thank you.

[@MichaelNROH]

I run Fedora 40 currently. The reason on why I find the container approach much better than a native install is, because if a dependency gets updated, it will break the installation unless you manually fix it again. On Fedora 38, some of them got updated quite frequently, which meant manual fixing like every other week. There is also another advantage to Distrobox, as you can use the Linux version that Resolve itself wants to use (Rocky OS). Their version is very outdated though, which is why I went for Fedora instead

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

@@MichaelNROH Good day, Thank you kindly for the reply, this does make sense, I was just wondering what version/ flavour you were running and then obviously we know what container you were using. Does the container require updates? And, could they potentially "break" an install? I am a total noob to linux so please do forgive my possibly idiotic question.... Thank you.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

Is there any way to get the speed editor to work for resolve within the distrobox? When I initially tried to install resolve on my OS without distrobox, resolve could see the speed editor.

[@grilo4691]

My fedora just updated one day after installing and now my resolve just crashed... Everytime i try to open says he cant find opt/resolve directory but i didn't deleted these directorys... anyone can help me with that?

[@MichaelNROH]

The link is stupid sometimes. Just create the /opt/resolve directory on the host, and leave it empty

[@creatfunandunique]

hello there PLEASE HELP , in my friends computer having windows .mp4 file runs easily(we can edit videos with .mp4 there) but in my linux it doesnt runs when i import .mp4 file it is black only, neither video nor sound comes i always have to convert to .mov then it works fine . ****does .mp4 file run in linux davinci or not ??? if yes , please mention the solution. I USE UBUNTU (64-BIT) .

[@MichaelNROH]

MP4 as in the format is not the problem. The free version of DaVinci Resolve on Linux does not support H.264 (AVC) or H.265 (HEVC). That only works in the Studio Edition due to licensing costs, which are usually covered by the Operating Systems. The newer AV1 codec works flawless, and if that is not an option, I would recommend recording with a different video codec

[@SashikantSao]

I have a amd gpu but - sudo dnf install rocm-opencl is not working, instead this worked : sudo dnf install mesa-libOpenCL-devel.x86_64

[@HubDubs]

So I've managed to get Resolve up and running, I can preview and add clips and it detects my GPU (AMD). But the timeline UI is completely blank, everything else works except the timeline. I've tried both the stable Resolve 18 and beta 19 with the same issue. Using Plasma 6 on Fedora 40. Any ideas? Thanks.

[@protossss]

Hi did you resolve this issue? Same for me. Timeline is not visible.

[@HubDubs]

@@protossss No :(

[@creatfunandunique]

help ! I wanted to add komaika axis font from da fonts , installed otf , ttf files installed both of them it appears fine in kdenlive software but davinci resolve doesnt shows the font i downloaded , and i have tried other 2-3 fonts like chicago and other fonts as well and it appears in kdenlive but not in davinci *****why or davinci doesnt support downloaded fonts ???

[@MichaelNROH]

Resolve's individual "programs" are being built differently. The Editing mode usually reads both user and system fonts, while Fusion only reads system fonts by default. I talked about this at the end of this video: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/j37Xm4WeZtuYlaM

[@EnFuego79]

Are you aware that Nobara already has most of the dependencies pre-loaded and an app to fix any that resolve is missing? It also has an option to install enhanced AMD drivers. Problem is the BRAW speed test doesn't work, and the RAW video player doesn't work either. Still trying to figure that out.

[@liskjyt6593]

my friend i'm getting this error, do you have any clue what might be the reason? qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

[@matthewjorgensen9115]

I am also getting this Using Debain testing and wayland/sway. With both distrobox fedora 37 and 38

[@DHotdog85]

I am getting this problem, as well. Tried Fedora 37 and 38 with both docker and podman under distrobox, on Arch. I'll update, if I figure it out. Using XFCE on X11, if that makes a difference.

[@DHotdog85]

The post by @Afif87123, farther up in the comments section, ended up being the fix for me: Make sure you have xhost installed on the host system. Then in a terminal, on the host system, enter the following two commands: xhost +si:localuser:$USER xhost +si:localuser:root Try installing DaVinci Resolve in the container, again. It *should* work, now. Seems as though it was a permissions issue that was preventing the container system from being able to access the display server on the host system.

[@rjlarussa4136]

I was wondering if you could answer a quick question. This setup works great, but Davinci can't seem to open my lut folder. I'm wondering if it works on yours? Do you know the path to where luts are stored inside the container? I can't seem to find the path

[@rjlarussa4136]

I managed to find it in the standard resolve path, just the hidden ".LUT" folder was missing. I created it and dropped my luts in. It seems to somehow create the default resolve luts on startup so mine are duplicated, as I have all my standard resolve luts in a subfolder. Weird behavior but it seems to work!

[@BlazeingGoldReviews]

sudo dnf install pkexec does not work. Last metadata expiration check: 0:27:46 ago on Thu Jun 8 01:03:12 2023. No match for argument: pkexec Error: Unable to find a match: pkexec thats the error i get

[@MichaelNROH]

If you reach that one, you just need to execute the installer with sudo.

[@pineofwired]

hey! thank you so much for this tutorial, i followed it and davinci resolve now works! however.. when i try to ''distrobox-export --app /opt/resolve/bin/resolve'' it says ''Application /opt/resolve/bin/resolve successfully exported.'' but clicking that app that just formed seems to load for a bit and then nothing appears. launching through terminal works again though. any thoughts?

[@MichaelNROH]

I've had two things happen in the past. 1. The link did not reference distrobox whatsoever (check exec=... in the resolve link in ~/.local/applications/) and I needed to export it again. 2. For some reason, the link expects the /opt/resolve directory on the host, so just create it with sudo and leave it empty. Usually this happens automatically, but not always

[@kazekduzy1920]

Hi, I have such problem. When I try to install Davinci I have this error: "Do you agree to the terms and conditions of this license? (y/n): y Error: Installer failed Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: Too many levels of symbolic links" Could someone advise ?

[@MichaelNROH]

Sudo

[@pimpatterson]

install boxbuddy for a more gui friendly approach but still needs command line for initial install

[@jmalmsten]

This does seem promising. But as a Linux Noob. Resolve compability has been the thing that is keeping me on Windows. Because... Just looking at the hoops required for linux users to do most things. I am more than a little intimidated. So many things make me ask... Why is this the users task to solve? If Linux truly wants to be the ruling OS of the masses. There really needs to be an overhaul of basics. Reinstalling the same app over and over to weed out the dependencies (whatever that means)??? Should there not be an option in the myriad of terminal commands to install the necessary bits and bobs automagically. And should that not be the default option in the first place? A "this will run the app on most systems and you can opt to do things manually if you want or if the defaults don't work as expected"? Sorry it became an unintelligible rant. But still. I am very much confused about why this is the end users problem.

[@MichaelNROH]

DaVinci Resolve has the unintended disadvantage that it was never meant for regular Desktop users but only for professional use cases like movie production. The Windows version is the only one which can be used quite effortlessly. The free version on both MacOS and Linux are not as functional and are meant to be only deployed on tested operating System (CentOS, RockyOS, Rhel)

[@AlucardaPapere]

Keep in mind, this is an issue mostlry relegated to creators type software, where most of them are not even available on linux

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

this solution will use the same ammount of resources as an virtual machine? because i have an potato pc...

[@DJNightchild]

No, because it's not virtualization. Containers do not take much resources, except perhaps disk space.

[@henriquekirchheck]

Containers use the same Kernel as your native distro making them incredibly efficient, so it will only need a little bit more disk space because of the repeated dependencies.

[@monochrome_linux]

Containers run at the same speed as your host PC. The only sacrifice is some storage space.

[@boncboncki89]

Yup, it all nice but one thing - I cant export anything - still i had problem with codecs - i miss something?

[@MichaelNROH]

Most codecs are not available on Linux and MacOS due to Licensing costs. If you have the paid Studio version you get access to more, though some are still restricted to NVIDIA for some reason.

[@dy2c]

thank you so much man!

[@silloo2072]

why do i get this ./resolve: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[@phamquangminh8391]

Is the audio problem of Davinci Resolve still exist on distrobox?

[@JahidulIslam]

Proper Fedora only needs libglu or something like that. Rest is same as RHEL or Cent OS.

[@ivandj707]

I'm on W 10 but thinking about switching to Linux. Would the simplest solution for me be to first install Fedora 37 as the operating system and thus simplify the installation of DaVinci Resolve? That is, the only thing that matters to me is that I have a linux distro that works stably with DaVinci.

[@MichaelNROH]

The current version of Fedora is 40. Generally speaking, with distrobox it doesn't matter if you install Ubuntu, Fedora or something else. Just pick the one that looks the nicest. I've pinned a comment with some additional information

[@ivandj707]

@@MichaelNROH Thank you.

[@Hariharan_Sridhar]

I use debian12 distro. I followed every step in this video and it worked till installing 'rocm-opencl'. when i try to install it , it says like "Unable to locate package rocm-opencl". For the other pakages also, it says like "Unable to locate package libxcrypt-compat E: Unable to locate package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio". I tried searching solution in google but couldn't find anything useful. Suggest me a solution to resolve this.

[@MichaelNROH]

Which container did you choose and did you enter it? All of those packages are availabe from the Fedora repos within the container

[@Hariharan_Sridhar]

@@MichaelNROH I choose the debian 11 container "debian:stable-backports"

[@MichaelNROH]

@@Hariharan_Sridhar That explains it. I'm not aware that the rocm-opencl package exists in the same way on Debian like it does on Fedora. There is a reason why I chose Fedora 37 over other distros for the container

[@Hariharan_Sridhar]

@@MichaelNROH ok I'll change to fedora

[@ntisithoj]

This was an awesome tutorial... and it appears to have worked flawlessly for some, but Resolve only generates an "unsupported GPU processing mode" error, even though I added "--nvidia" to the Fedotra 37 creation command. "nvidia-smi" work ok, and no errors in the log, but in the resolve configuration, under "Memory and GPU", there is no GPU listed :/

[@MichaelNROH]

I might have found a solution, but need to backtrace my steps. You can follow the progress on my Discord / Matrix

[@ntisithoj]

Thanks, but FYI, you invitation link in your about page is invalid :/ Following on Element/matrix, but prefer Discord as Element keeps demanding validation from another device for some reason, which I do not have.

[@Smarthalayla]

Questions- if I want to move from Windows 10 to Linux and having all the third party software run on Linux. Some of those are portable software which don't need installation on windows. Will the work? Also, I would like to keep the look and feel as in Windows 10 with a "start" menu as it was in windows 7. which version of Linux will do the job without any hassle?

[@MichaelNROH]

It would depend what that third party software does. If they include drivers, then they won't run the same as on Windows. The rest just might. You can take a looks at compatibility on the WINEHQ website. Generally speaking, if you want the classic Windows experience, then you should go for the KDE Plasma Desktop environment. If you still want to tweak it a bit, then you can do so. They advertise popular distros on their website as well, so you can just choose one. They are all similar

[@SteavenGamerYT1]

thanks, it really worked, i thinked I had to reboot to windows every time I wanted to use Resolve, I guess Fedora 38 broke it forever, I had to remove Arch to Fedora, because Arch kept breaking

[@AlexeyRiched]

how to get rid of the need to re-encode mp4 files for video to work in the Linux version of Davinci Resolve?

[@MichaelNROH]

Don't record with AAC but with the PCM audio codec and buy the Studio edition. That's the most reliable but also expensive way to do it. There are plugins, however they also often cost money.

[@florianhenig5654]

Unfortunately MP4s (x264 and x265) are not working. The video track just does't show up in the timeline and the audio track is completely "silent". Do you know how to deal with that?

[@MichaelNROH]

On Linux you need to buy the Studio version for H.264 and H.265 support (also the x-variants) because their licenses are not included in the OS. The audio tracks not showing up can be explained by the AAC audio codec, which isn't supported in any version on Linux unfortunately. I work around that, by setting my codec to PCM in OBS instead.

[@creatfunandunique]

hello when i try to convert a small file like 20 mb mp4 file to mov through shutter encoder the file becomes like 200mb-400mb and so on ......and when i want to edit a long video ,,,,these types of clip will make 5-10gb already and it will make edit heavy and lag . how to convert to mov or do what.... to edit smoothly and with smaller size

[@MichaelNROH]

You need a compression codec like AV1. The reason on why the files become that big is, because there is no more compression on them (not quality wise though as H.264 is not lossless).

[@creatfunandunique]

@@MichaelNROH I have tried Av1 but I found out that quality was reduced are there any other codec or something so the quality doesn't decrease too large and size doesnt also become big I have also tried codec like h264 but the file is not opened by davinci ........ My problem is Most of the time i got mp4 files and have to convert to mov using xdcam hd 422 which make file 5-6 times larger as compared to mp4 file and it makes my davinci slow So are there any other method so size doesnt increase too much and quality doesn't decrease

[@MichaelNROH]

@@creatfunandunique Quality always needs to decrease if another compression is being applied. You are compressing the compressed video essentially. It's why movie studios record lossless and only encode it from the source material. If you want smaller file sizes then you either need to record in a much higher quality, so that the second compression has more data to work with, or you need to convert the mp4 file to a bigger size without any or much further compression. It's impossible otherwise as H.264 is a lossy format, meaning that you can't restore the original material from the encoded video

[@clocked0]

I am honestly amazed at how far this concept and implementation has evolved since Bedrock Linux

[@monochrome_linux]

exactly. Bedrock was such a novelty, but now everyone can get the same feature. No one seems to use or make content of Bedrock any more i think, havent seen one in quite a while

[@clocked0]

@@monochrome_linux In fairness it also hasn't had a new release in quite a while. 0.7 Poki has been out for a couple years now

[@jamescampbell6728]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who went through hell on fedora 38 lol

[@Bits4you]

appreciate this video. Thank you

[@brethnew]

Just installed Kubuntu and I'm trying to get dnf installed, however it's saying "Unable to detect release version" and "There are no enabled repositories in ...." Can anyone assist me to adding repositories to dnf so I can use the command line he posted in the comments?

[@Shrapnel_Music]

you likely just need 'pkexec' so, sudo apt install -y pkexec It's the Super Unknown dependency that no one tells anyone to install.

[@brethnew]

@@Shrapnel_Music Already installed, thanks anyways

[@brethnew]

@@Shrapnel_Music Error: There are no enabled repositories in "/etc/yum.repos.d", "/etc/yum/repos.d", "/etc/distro.repos.d".

[@jaizon]

Thank you for the tutorial, I was able to install it on Manjaro. But there are 2 problems. The first one is that when it loads, I get an error saying it "Unable to load plugin: USD.plugin libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file:No such file directory". But even tyhough the error shows up, it starts normally right after closing it. The second problem is that there is no menu bar. Like, at all.

[@MichaelNROH]

I think the error is being cause by Blackmagic themselves in their latest release. In Resolve 18.1.4, the latest working one on AMD hardware, there is no error like this. Btw, if by menu bar, you mean the top one with the minimize button then that's normal given that both MacOS and Linux only feature Resolve like this.

[@mamaelas]

How you managed to do that? I installed distrobox with podman, follow the steps to allow podman to work rootless and then proceeded to install Davinci in the container. But I can´t get into the installation because it says that the file cant be found, like bash can´t found it, even if the .run file is recognized in the folder when I use de ls command and also I use ./ as it recommended in the video