On 1/2/20 11:37 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 02/01/2020 06:53, Benson Muite wrote:
There are a number of screen recording alternatives that are simpler
than OBS Studio, including vokoscreen, Kazam, Simplescreenrecorder
etc, The main problem is that most depend on FFMPEG. FFMPEG has a
license that is compatible with the main Fedora repository
(https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html), but is typically built with a number
of nonfree dependencies
https://github.com/rpmfusion/ffmpeg/blob/master/ffmpeg.spec - CUDA
support, libfaac, libnpp, libfdk-aac One could compile a version of
FFMPEG without these, but performance on some platforms may drop
significantly and some functionality may be missing. Not clear if
this would be useful for other projects that depend on FFMPEG as well.
Licenses are not the only issue.
The big issue with ffmpeg, like with many multimedia related
things, is patents.
Thanks for the clarification. FFMPEG seems not to have very many
alternative software packages. Royalty free codecs are also being
developed, for example AV1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1), and
adoption of these will likely grow. I suspect there would be interest in
having a royalty free version of FFMPEG for use by content creators that
satisfies Fedora packaging guidlines, though unclear if at present this
would be useful for many of the multimedia related packages. This would
also likely need some interaction with FFMPEG developers.
Tom
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