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  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    30 days ago

    They’re probably talking about Fedora dropping the h.264, h.265 and VC1 VA-API support back in 2022 for legal reasons due to patents:

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API

    It’s largely a non-issue as you can easily install the patched Mesa from RPM Fusion, and I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.

    Don’t get me wrong, Arch is great and it will always have a place in my heart, but I also think Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.

    • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
      2·
      30 days ago

      I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.

      Flathub even has hardware decoding with the drivers they distribute. However, Flatpak applications need to specifically opt in to ffmpeg-full rather than the normal ffmpeg package, which has support for patent-encumbered codecs.

      Fedora Flatpaks, on the other hand, have no such codec support.

      Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.

      💯

      • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        30 days ago

        I have to admit one of the first things I do when setting up a Fedora atomic distro is disable the Fedora flatpak repo and replace all existing apps with Flathub equivalents. Still, good info to keep in mind!