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[Naheem Zaffar]

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

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at 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.)
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