Am 27.09.22 um 20:01 schrieb Frantisek Zatloukal:
Hi,
since this mesa change (
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mesa/c/94ef544b3f2125912dfbff4c6ef373fe49806b52?branch=rawhide <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 <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.
I'd like to ask:
- Can somebody elaborate on reasons to change something that was working
in Fedora for some time already?
- Is there any short/mid/long term plan to improve the situation?
- Would it be possible to provide vaapi support at least as an rpmfusion
addon to alleviate the fallout in the short term?
Thanks!
While I can relate to the rationale to some extent, the amount of
breakage caused by patents is slowly pushing me towards considering
moving to a new distro. I am probably not the only one. This could be
the proverbial straw breaking the camel's back.
Recently, I experienced that the German AusweisApp, which already
required entering the ID card PIN on the phone [1], has stopped working
altogether [2]. This is due to hobbled openssl Fedora ships. There is no
openssl-freeworld in RPM Fusion, probably because it would need to be
rebuilt entirely.
For mesa, there is apparently also little interest in maintaining a
mesa-freeworld package [3]. The discontent with ffmpeg moving to fedora
a while ago also seems to have been primarily caused by the monolithic
nature of ffmpeg. On the other hand, gstreamer plugins seem not to be a
major problem.
It thus appears that, in order to keep Fedora appealing for users in
jurisdictions not affected by patents, effort should be made to
modularize the affected bits so that these can be shipped by RPM Fusion
(or equivalent) without too much hassle.
Best regards,
Julian
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2000306
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2105754
[3]
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/opengl-vulkan-mesa-gallium3d/1321663-mesa-can-now-be-built-with-select-video-codecs-disabled-for-software-patent-concerns?p=1322191#post1322191
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