It includes code over which various people claim to have patents
and RedHat don't want to get sued by the owners of those patents.
This is a common problem with audio and video codecs which often
involve algorithms which are subject to patent claims.
Tom
On 01/11/2019 10:25, Code Zombie wrote:
I think I am going to switch to the flatpak version. Last time I
remember I used it it had all multimedia support by default. This way I
would not have to fight between rpmfusion and negativo repos.
But, I still don't understand given that ffmpeg is all open-source, what
prevents fedora from including it?
- Mehdi
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 7:59 PM Luya Tshimbalanga
<luya(a)fedoraproject.org <mailto:luya@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
Blender in Fedora repository is built with ffpmeg support disabled
by default for legal reasons. Negativo which is one of
co-maintainers provides nearly identical version with FFmpeg enabled
accessible via fedora-multimedia branch.
https://negativo17.org/repos
Make sure to keep that repo disabled to avoid conflict with rpmfusion.
Luya
On 2019-10-31 11:09 a.m., Code Zombie wrote:
> Thanks Luya,
> I have all ffmpeg and gstreamer codecs installed. However, I think
> blender was installed by OpenShot before I actually installed
> ffmpeg and gstreamer codecs.
> So, it might be the reason why it does not play videos or music.
> But, reinstalling blender didn't help. Never had this issue before.
> - Mehdi
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:26 AM Luya Tshimbalanga
> <luya(a)fedoraproject.org <mailto:luya@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019-10-31 5:05 a.m., Code Zombie wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > It seems that Blender 2.8 on Fedora 31 does not support
> sound and
> > video playback and export.
> > Does anyone have the same issue? Is that normal on Fedora 31?
> >
> > - Mehdi
> >
> Hello Mehda,
>
> Blender requires ffmpeg which cannot be legally included in
> Fedora
> repository to effectively use multimedia due to US patents
> law. One of
> best approach is either get ffmpeg without the offending
> codecs or
> enable an alternative like gstreamer which is beyond the scope of
> packaging process.
>
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