Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns (phoronix.com) 47 points by semiotic1 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] bubblethink 3y ago ↗ Does anyone know when h.264 patents expire ? Was is 2027 ? Fedora is pretty unusable without rpmfusion. All this will also likely move to rpmfusion. [–] semiotic1 3y ago ↗ There was a statement [1] earlier from leigh123linux [2] announcing very little interest in maintaining something like this.[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...[2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/
[–] semiotic1 3y ago ↗ There was a statement [1] earlier from leigh123linux [2] announcing very little interest in maintaining something like this.[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...[2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/
[–] hedora 3y ago ↗ > Fedora cannot ship anything that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms.If this is really the case, I have some bad news: They'll need to stop shipping drivers for anything under ~ 17 years old.Pretty much all peripherals implement patented encodings and decodings.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] thread[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
[2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/
If this is really the case, I have some bad news: They'll need to stop shipping drivers for anything under ~ 17 years old.
Pretty much all peripherals implement patented encodings and decodings.