On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:30 PM Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le mar. 27 sept. 2022 à 20:57, David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:02 AM Frantisek Zatloukal <fzatlouk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > 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. > > Dave. > > > > > 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? > > > > The last might be possible, but I'm not sure how to go about it. > At least I've asked in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123998#c8 > > That the fedora mesa package completely drops the vaapi backend, so a > complementary package can just drop the missing files instead of > rebuilding a whole mesa package. > It would assume the fedora mesa package to have everything needed in > order to cope with vaapi backend enabled in the core libraries and > that the vaapi backend only provide the implementation. Please take a look at the rawhide changes I just pushed. This should split things out sufficiently. Dave. _______________________________________________ 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
