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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 07:15:14 UTC Bernie

   Oh no, Fedora is disabling hardware acceleration for H264 and H265 😞

   https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/xpt34f/fedora_37_drops_vaapi_accelerated_hardware_video/
   #fedora #linux #patents #legal

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 09:22:29 UTC Bernie

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     • Zlatko
     • cipper 📌

     @zladuric @cipper Yes, the MPEG LA is mainly to blame for assembling pools of patent to extract royalties on implementations of H264 and H265, even opensource ones:
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA#H.264/MPEG-4_AVC_licensors

     Until the patents expire, the only option is using royalty-free formats such as VP8 / VP9 / AV1.

   • Zlatko (zladuric@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 09:22:30 UTC Zlatko

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     • cipper 📌

     @cipper @codewiz uh, I'm out of the patent loop - what do we have in EU that helps?

     Also, if I understand correctly, this has to do with codecs, not drivers, right? Doesn't matter if it's nvidia or amd card?

   • cipper 📌 (cipper@mastodon.uno)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 09:22:31 UTC cipper 📌

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     @codewiz you should switch to some EU distro