On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 April 2015 at 11:36, drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs.
> > Chrome will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome.
> >
> > The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low.
>
> One of those is youtube (vp8/9) besides .. we could play h264 on a
> large amount of hardware if our browsers would be using the GPU for
> decoding (through vdpau or vaapi) with drivers installed.
> So its not (only) a patent issue.
Is Cisco's OpenH264 considered open source?
Yes and no.
It is open source but you only get the patent license if it is
distributed from Cisco.
If so, can a pseudo repository be created via gnome-software that
will add
this package to an installed system?
Only if this repo is hosted by Cisco otherwise ... no patent license.