Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns(phoronix.com)
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Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API
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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/
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
[2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/
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.