Unfortunately, in the US, there are claimed patents affecting parts of H.264 who's expirations are as far out as late 2030. It's not clear which versions/profiles of H.264 are affected by which patents, so not sure when parts of H.264 could potentially freed up.
Once upon a time, Mateus Rodrigues Costa <mateusrodco...@gmail.com> said: > 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 > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- _______________________________________________ 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
