On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 7 April 2015 at 11:36, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs. >> > Chrome will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome. >> > >> > The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low. >> >> One of those is youtube (vp8/9) besides .. we could play h264 on a >> large amount of hardware if our browsers would be using the GPU for >> decoding (through vdpau or vaapi) with drivers installed. >> So its not (only) a patent issue. > > > Is Cisco's OpenH264 considered open source? Yes and no. It is open source but you only get the patent license if it is distributed from Cisco. > If so, can a pseudo repository be created via gnome-software that will add > this package to an installed system? Only if this repo is hosted by Cisco otherwise ... no patent license. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
