On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 8:33 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 05/06/2022 10:02, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > > We should really start thinking about this. > > Yes. Patents for algorithms hinder the development of humankind. > > But there is nothing we can do about it, because Red Hat is registered > in the US organization and must follow their laws.
I admit I have not checked, but does ffmpeg-free include the hardware GPU support for the various patented codecs (letting the GPU vendor pay the license costs for the decoder) and if not, would RH legal consider adding that hardware driver support acceptable to ffmpeg-free? Yes, some of the earlier hardware GPUs, even when they claim support for a codec, required software fallback to handle certain cases, which would not be allowed, but newer GPUs may be able to perform all the IP encumbered processing internally (I am thinking of GPUs such as nvidia pascal and later which I seem to recall supports at least some H.265 decode), and it would be useful to have those codecs available for apps to use on appropriate hardware. _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
