On 5/26/21 2:52 AM, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote:
Is there any reason why the Fedora system packages should be so different ? I can
see they wouldn't be so up-to-date but I would have thought the Fedora maintainer
would take the upstream as close as possible. It would be a better user experience
and probably less support if they were basically the same.
Most video codecs are patented. H.264* and HEVC still have active patents that
require licensing. Fedora does not ship software that is encumbered by patents that
requires licensing. Xpra relies on ffmpeg and ffmpeg cannot be shipped in Fedora so
the Fedora repositories ship a version of Xpra with all of the patent encumbered
features disabled.
RPMFusion is a third-party repository that lives outside the USA where Fedora is
based. You could have Xpra shipped in RPMFusion and have all of Xpra's features
turned on and available. It's entirely possible for Antoine to ship his packages
there instead of his own repository.
Regards,
Michael
* OpenH.264 is shipped in Fedora, but it has limited format support and it is a
plugin for Firefox.
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