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Oh great, looks like Fedora has lost hardware-accelerated video support BECAUSE PATENTS… ffs!

https://reddit.stuehieyr.com/r/Fedora/comments/xpt34f/fedora_37_drops_vaapi_accelerated_hardware_video/iq6ilao

#tech #foss #patents #fedora
#foss #tech #fedora #patents
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Thomas
Thomas
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(Mostly for AMD hardware only)
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@tcit And guess what I’m writing you this on… :)
@Thomas
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Thomas
Thomas
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Sorry for you. It seems it's going to be available - or already is - on RPMFusion, though.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
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mesa has disabled it. Fedora follows upstream. As explained in the link.
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Pixelcode 🇺🇦
Pixelcode 🇺🇦
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@jwildeboer “Software patents” are something that simply should not exist, and I have no clue why some Free Software advocates seem to support them.
@Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
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Jiří Eischmann :fedora:
Jiří Eischmann :fedora:
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not major change in reality because to utilize the hardware acceleration you need ffmpeg which has never been available in Fedora because... guess why... yes, software patents.
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