Re: Mesa in F37- vaapi support disabled for h264/h265/vc1

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 5:11 AM 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?

The presumably is wrong. hw vendors do not cover the license costs for
the patents.

Dave.
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