On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:33 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
* Demi Marie Obenour:
> On 12/17/22 05:31, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
>> On 17/12/2022 06:29, Bob Hepple wrote:
>>> Now that we have ffmpeg-free we have an opportunity to move wf-recorder
>>> to the mainstream and change the default codec to the non-proprietary
>>> libopenh264.
>>
>> You still can't link against openh264 because Fedora can't ship it an
>> even have in Koji's buildroot, you can only use dlopen().
>
> Could Fedora ship a shim library that exposed the same API and used
> dlopen() internally?
Isn't GStreamer this API, and doesn't Fluendo provide compatible codecs?
Yup. They also apparently also developed a way to use GStreamer with
FFmpeg applications:
https://fluendo.com/en/products/enterprise/fluendo-ffmpeg/
Shame it's not open source and contributed to FFmpeg itself. That'd be
really useful...
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