[winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed May 26 13:56:35 BST 2021


On 5/26/21 7:43 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
> For the sake of completeness, this is not 100% accurate: ffmpeg can be
> built under the GPL license and without the nonfree codecs.
> xpra's ffmpeg encoder which we are discussing in this thread can be
> enabled without those.
> Whether that's practical or not is another question.

You're being extremely pedantic. Let's back up.

Sure, it can. Will anyone package and ship it in Fedora that way? No. Besides the 
enormous effort to strip out the patented code the handful of codecs that would 
remain wouldn't make it useful. Disabling the codecs at build time is not enough if 
we want to be pedantic.

> There's a lot more to this than just the patented codec issue:
> https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/wiki/Distribution-Packages

I think you missed my point. I was not saying "package the Fedora version into 
RPMFusion" -- I was saying take your (xpra.org) packages and ship them in RPMFusion.



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