----- Original Message ----- > 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? > > If so, can a pseudo repository be created via gnome-software that will add > this package to an installed system? > > (On the audio end, I think all known MP3 decoding patents are due to expire > prior to the release of Fedora 23.) Even if it is considered Open Source, it's only video, we don't have an AAC decoder with a similar license. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
