Red Hat Engineer plans for Fedora Workstation 24

[drago01]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 13:57 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
>> Codecs
>> ------------
>> H264 - I expect us to have sorted through our Koji changes and have
>> this ready for F24, unless we suddenly start blocking on Cisco. Wim
>> Taymans should start looking at getting Main support added at some
>> point. People involved - Kalev Lember (mclasen), Wim Taymans (Kem),
>> Kevin Fenzi (pfrields)
>
> Are you able to say anything on how this is legally possible? Will we
> be distributing binaries built by Cisco, or will we be paying the
> maximum royalty? What about MP3 -- my understanding is that H.264
> without MP3 results in videos without sound?

Not really mp3 but AAC ... the only use of H264 without those is
webrtc (where we opus is used for sound).