On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 7:17 PM Sandro <lists(a)penguinpee.nl>
wrote:
>
> Apologies for my late response. I have been swamped with other things...
>
> On 27-02-2023 16:05, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:04 AM Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2023-02-25 at 10:27 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>>>
>>>> It looks like libheif now supports a plugin architecture, so we could
>>>> move libheif to Fedora, while having the HEVC/H.265 backend plugin in
>>>> RPM Fusion.
>>>>
>>>> Also, according to the CMake, the HEVC/H.265 plugins are not built by
>>>> default anymore:
>>>>
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/blob/cdcc5b210879e0a0348032a594f8be...
>>>>
>>>> So feel free to package it and bring it into Fedora. :)
>
> I'm willing to give it a try. Yet, just submitting the package and
> getting it into Fedora is probably not enough. Some co-ordination with
> RPMFusion would be needed, I guess. And consuming packages would need to
> be updated to properly use the new library.
>
> If anyone could guide/assist me with that, I'd be grateful.
>
>>> So we can build libheif without H.265 on Fedora but how you propose
>>> make H.265 available with one third repo ? just build the plugin on
>>> third repo as a freeworld package ?
>>>
>>
>> It may be possible to build the plugin independently and link to
>> libheif, but at the minimum, that's what I expect.
>
> The above exchange I do not quite grasp. I guess this is about making
> libheif-av1 (the Av1 only libheif, yet to be packaged) play nicely
> together with the unfree libheif (providing HEIF/libde265) provided by
> RPMFusion.
>
> To set things in motion I will try my hands on building a AV1 only
> libheif package and take it from there.
>
Actually, I've got this done already locally. I can put it up for
review and you can grab it?
Then I can give you co-maintainer privileges for it.
Sure. That will work. Thanks Neal!
-- Sandro