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Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns
- bubblethink 4y agoDoes anyone know when h.264 patents expire ? Was is 2027 ? Fedora is pretty unusable without rpmfusion. All this will also likely move to rpmfusion.
- semiotic1 4y agoThere was a statement [1] earlier from leigh123linux [2] announcing very little interest in maintaining something like this. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/opengl-vulkan-mesa-gallium3d/1321663-mesa-can-now-be-built-with-select-video-codecs-disabled-for-software-patent-concerns?p=1322191#post1322191 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d... [2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/ https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/
- hedora 4y ago> Fedora cannot ship anything that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms. If this is really the case, I have some bad news: They'll need to stop shipping drivers for anything under ~ 17 years old. Pretty much all peripherals implement patented encodings and decodings.