On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 8:11 PM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once upon a time, David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:02 AM Frantisek Zatloukal <fzatlouk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > since this mesa change ( https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mesa/c/94ef544b3f2125912dfbff4c6ef373fe49806b52?branch=rawhide ) in F37 and rawhide, the mesa package lost support for vaapi accelerated encoding and decoding of h264, h265 and decoding of vc1 ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123998 ). > > > > > > It seems like a big regression from F36 for users with GPUs with open source drivers (mainly AMD, maybe nVidia/other non x86...), that affects common use-cases of Fedora Workstation, like watching videos, in-house game streaming, attending online meetings and many more. > > > > This was an oversight being enabled prior to this, and I think we have > > to remove it from older Fedora as well. Fedora cannot ship anything > > that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms. > > > > The patent licensing around H264/H265 is such that providing this > > could leave Red Hat and other Fedora distributors exposed to legal > > problems. > > But isn't this just providing for hardware decoding, where (presumably) > the hardware vendor arranged for whatever needed licenses? It's really not that simple, IANAL but AFAICT the licensing costs comes down to who provides a complete solution, the HW doesn't provide that so they may not be required to arrange the licenses. P _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
