I think you are right Martin. Blender has no runtime settings that I am aware of for codecs. - Mehdi
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 4:19 PM Martin Kolman <mkol...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 00:51 +0000, long27km wrote: > > Why isn't there an option to install other repos codecs and impls ( i know > the technical answer) ? I thought Fedora was now supposed to be focused on > being developer friendly. Dev's could just install another distro of the os > that allows licenses like debian/ubuntu... except maybe I still would > anyway since I'd have less trouble with those repos recently (re: x64 > requires flatpak/winepak). These growing pains are understandable, but this > is getting to be a bigger issue if we cannot simply install and use the > tools we need. > > As I understand this (and actual Blender maintainers & other more > knoledgable pepople plese correct me if I am completely wrong) this is due > to an architectural limitation of Blender - you either build against ffmpeg > at build time and have multimedia support or not build against ffmpeg and > don't have multimedia support. Basically there is no runtime plugin > support, like in other applications that can use Gstreamer and other > mechanisms to query available codecs and use them if they are installed. > > IIRC Blender is not the only affected application, some even have ffmpeg > as a hard dependency and can't be thus packaged for main Fedora repos at > all. > > In any case, adding plugin support is on most if not all such cases a > signifficant undertaking - unlikely something Fedora maintainers of such > package can pull off, not to mention upstream potetially not being > interested in accepting to such patches, that effectively increase their > maintenance bruden by adding another codepath for codec handling. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Luya Tshimbalanga <l...@fedoraproject.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:58 PM > *To:* devel@lists.fedoraproject.org <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > *Subject:* Re: Blender for Fedora 31 does not support multimedia? > > > Blender in Fedora repository is built with ffpmeg support disabled by > default for legal reasons. Negativo which is one of co-maintainers provides > nearly identical version with FFmpeg enabled accessible via > fedora-multimedia branch. > > https://negativo17.org/repos > > Make sure to keep that repo disabled to avoid conflict with rpmfusion. > > Luya > On 2019-10-31 11:09 a.m., Code Zombie wrote: > > Thanks Luya, > I have all ffmpeg and gstreamer codecs installed. However, I think blender > was installed by OpenShot before I actually installed ffmpeg and gstreamer > codecs. > So, it might be the reason why it does not play videos or music. But, > reinstalling blender didn't help. Never had this issue before. > - Mehdi > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:26 AM Luya Tshimbalanga <l...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > On 2019-10-31 5:05 a.m., Code Zombie wrote: > > Hi > > > > It seems that Blender 2.8 on Fedora 31 does not support sound and > > video playback and export. > > Does anyone have the same issue? Is that normal on Fedora 31? > > > > - Mehdi > > > Hello Mehda, > > Blender requires ffmpeg which cannot be legally included in Fedora > repository to effectively use multimedia due to US patents law. One of > best approach is either get ffmpeg without the offending codecs or > enable an alternative like gstreamer which is beyond the scope of > packaging process. > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- > > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > > List Guidelines: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
_______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
