Over a period of incremental updates, I finally got bitten by the Werewolf. There was this slight glitch of Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.56 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs caused more due to the x264.i386 from F7 remaining on the system. A quick rpm -e and a further yum install fixed the niggling bit and here we are

In case you run into a problem similar to fc-cache -fs  as root giving /usr/share/fonts/lohit-bengali: failed to write cache (the language is an example only) make sure to run fc-cache -f -v for a fix.