On 6/10/22 07:45, Martin Stransky wrote:
> On 6/10/22 11:44, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
>> On 10/06/2022 05:08, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Hardware decoding in ffmpeg is nonfunctional with stripped build-in 
>> codecs parts.
> 
> That's not exactly correct, for instance internal ffmpeg AV1 decoder is 
> VA-API only, i.e. accelerated and ffmpeg does not ship internal SW decoder.
> 
> OTOH I don't believe it's possible to use H.264 HW decoding without 
> patented parts as the decoding involves buffers ordering/stream 
> extraction and so on.'

That might actually be a good thing from a security perspective,
inasmuch as it means that the parsing is happening in the host and
not in on-device firmware.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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