On 7 April 2015 at 11:36, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@redhat.com> wrote:
> Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs. Chrome will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome.
>
> The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low.

One of those is youtube (vp8/9) besides .. we could play h264 on a
large amount of hardware if our browsers would be using the GPU for
decoding (through vdpau or vaapi) with drivers installed.
So its not (only) a patent issue.

Is Cisco's OpenH264 considered open source?

If so, can a pseudo repository be created via gnome-software that will add this package to an installed system?

(On the audio end, I think all known MP3 decoding patents are due to expire prior to the release of Fedora 23.)