Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

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On 07/28/2010 06:11 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> Fedora just can't
>> include ffmpeg for obvious reasons,
> 
> How many more years are we talking about for ffmpeg?
> 
> Speaking of which, when can we include a mp3 decoder library in
> Fedora? I heard that all mp3 decoding patents will expire in 2012.
> There are a few encoding patents that will expire in 2015-16.
> 
> Are we going to wait until all mp3 encoders become patent-free to
> include decoders in Fedora? (Same question applies to video codecs.)

Video is much much harder to discuss. At least for mp3, the plan is to
revisit the space in 2012 and see what the possibilities are.

~spot
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