Once upon a time, David Airlie <airl...@redhat.com> said: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:02 AM Frantisek Zatloukal <fzatl...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > since this mesa change ( > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mesa/c/94ef544b3f2125912dfbff4c6ef373fe49806b52?branch=rawhide > > ) in F37 and rawhide, the mesa package lost support for vaapi accelerated > > encoding and decoding of h264, h265 and decoding of vc1 ( > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123998 ). > > > > It seems like a big regression from F36 for users with GPUs with open > > source drivers (mainly AMD, maybe nVidia/other non x86...), that affects > > common use-cases of Fedora Workstation, like watching videos, in-house game > > streaming, attending online meetings and many more. > > This was an oversight being enabled prior to this, and I think we have > to remove it from older Fedora as well. Fedora cannot ship anything > that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms. > > The patent licensing around H264/H265 is such that providing this > could leave Red Hat and other Fedora distributors exposed to legal > problems.
But isn't this just providing for hardware decoding, where (presumably) the hardware vendor arranged for whatever needed licenses? -- 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
