Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns

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Post by semiotic1 » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns
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Re: Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns

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Post by bubblethink » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 7:29 PM UTC

Does anyone know when h.264 patents expire ? Was is 2027 ? Fedora is pretty unusable without rpmfusion. All this will also likely move to rpmfusion.

Re: Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns

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Post by semiotic1 » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

bubblethink wrote: post #2

Does anyone know when h.264 patents expire ? Was is 2027 ? Fedora is pretty unusable without rpmfusion. All this will also likely move to rpmfusion.

There was a statement [1] earlier from leigh123linux [2] announcing very little interest in maintaining something like this.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...

[2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/

Re: Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns

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Post by hedora » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 10:26 PM UTC

> Fedora cannot ship anything that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms.

If this is really the case, I have some bad news: They'll need to stop shipping drivers for anything under ~ 17 years old.

Pretty much all peripherals implement patented encodings and decodings.