It's largely a non-issue as you can easily install the patched Mesa from RPM Fusion, and I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.
Don't get me wrong, Arch is great and it will always have a place in my heart, but I also think Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren't comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.
I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.
Flathub even has hardware decoding with the drivers they distribute. However, Flatpak applications need to specifically opt in to ffmpeg-full rather than the normal ffmpeg package, which has support for patent-encumbered codecs.
Fedora Flatpaks, on the other hand, have no such codec support.
Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.
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I have to admit one of the first things I do when setting up a Fedora atomic distro is disable the Fedora flatpak repo and replace all existing apps with Flathub equivalents. Still, good info to keep in mind!
Yes u can but this don't solve the problem. You open calculator and your PC is 90% use and the fans are on maximum, lol.
I wasn't aware the calculator app used h.264/5, what relevance is that?
is just an example. When I opened some random apps my cpu fan start to work and the CPU usage was about 85~90%
Do you have a link that talks about this? What is missing?
They're probably talking about Fedora dropping the h.264, h.265 and VC1 VA-API support back in 2022 for legal reasons due to patents:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API
It's largely a non-issue as you can easily install the patched Mesa from RPM Fusion, and I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.
Don't get me wrong, Arch is great and it will always have a place in my heart, but I also think Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren't comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.
Flathub even has hardware decoding with the drivers they distribute. However, Flatpak applications need to specifically opt in to
ffmpeg-fullrather than the normalffmpegpackage, which has support for patent-encumbered codecs.Fedora Flatpaks, on the other hand, have no such codec support.
💯
I have to admit one of the first things I do when setting up a Fedora atomic distro is disable the Fedora flatpak repo and replace all existing apps with Flathub equivalents. Still, good info to keep in mind!
Yes u can but this don't solve the problem. You open calculator and your PC is 90% use and the fans are on maximum, lol.
I wasn't aware the calculator app used h.264/5, what relevance is that?
is just an example. When I opened some random apps my cpu fan start to work and the CPU usage was about 85~90%