On 6/10/22 07:45, Martin Stransky wrote: > On 6/10/22 11:44, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: >> On 10/06/2022 05:08, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: >>> I admit I have not checked, but does ffmpeg-free include >>> the hardware GPU support for the various patented >>> codecs (letting the GPU vendor pay the license costs >>> for the decoder) and if not, would RH legal consider >>> adding that hardware driver support acceptable to >>> ffmpeg-free? >> >> Hardware decoding in ffmpeg is nonfunctional with stripped build-in >> codecs parts. > > That's not exactly correct, for instance internal ffmpeg AV1 decoder is > VA-API only, i.e. accelerated and ffmpeg does not ship internal SW decoder. > > OTOH I don't believe it's possible to use H.264 HW decoding without > patented parts as the decoding involves buffers ordering/stream > extraction and so on.' That might actually be a good thing from a security perspective, inasmuch as it means that the parsing is happening in the host and not in on-device firmware. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
