Is this page relevant to the H264 discussion? https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F
Apparently H264 patents expire on August this year (the most relevant patents on most countries, there may be exceptions). I guess by then things should be a bit easier? Em qua., 11 de jun. de 2025, 17:42, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> escreveu: > On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 09:22, drago01 wrote: > > The whole topic would have been much easier if we didn't decide to remove > > hardware de/encoders a few releases ago. > > > > The number of users needing openh264 would shrink significantly. > > Unfortunately, hardware based decoding in FFmpeg is tied to the native > software decoder, so to enable hardware H.264 playback we would have to > enable built-in h264 decoder and we are not allowed to do that (yet). > > Regards, > Dominik > -- > Fedora https://fedoraproject.org > Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe > that > makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. > -- from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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