Summary of Reddit thread

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.)

Even if it is considered Open Source, it's only video, we don't have an AAC decoder
with a similar license.