On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 5:11 AM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote: > > 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?
The presumably is wrong. hw vendors do not cover the license costs for the patents. Dave. _______________________________________________ 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
