• Lem453
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    25 days ago

    Do you have a link that talks about this? What is missing?

    • thayer
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      25 days ago

      They’re probably talking about Fedora dropping the h.264, h.265 and VC1 VA-API support back in 2022 for legal reasons due to patents:

      https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API

      It’s largely a non-issue as you can easily install the patched Mesa from RPM Fusion, and I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.

      Don’t get me wrong, Arch is great and it will always have a place in my heart, but I also think Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.

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        24 days ago

        I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.

        Flathub even has hardware decoding with the drivers they distribute. However, Flatpak applications need to specifically opt in to ffmpeg-full rather than the normal ffmpeg package, which has support for patent-encumbered codecs.

        Fedora Flatpaks, on the other hand, have no such codec support.

        Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.

        💯

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          24 days ago

          I have to admit one of the first things I do when setting up a Fedora atomic distro is disable the Fedora flatpak repo and replace all existing apps with Flathub equivalents. Still, good info to keep in mind!