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[drago01]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7 April 2015 at 11:36, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>
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>> > Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs.
>> > Chrome will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome.
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>> > The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low.
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>> 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.
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> Is Cisco's OpenH264 considered open source?

Yes and no.
It is open source but you only get the patent license if it is
distributed from Cisco.

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

Only if this repo is hosted by Cisco otherwise ... no patent license.