also it's a bit ironic that Nvidia now has a VA-API over NVENC compatibility layer at the same time that so many patent-encumbered codecs are ripped off of opensource drivers...
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Originally posted by marlock View Postwow, i knew it was sensible of RedHat to pull out those codecs from a finished distro release, but to see mesa devs deem it legally too risky to even let the option available for others to compile mesa with those codecs?!
it's horrible to see how patent law can be so pernicious and antagonic to technological advancement and adoption, and it's also a bit scary that this has been in there until now and only now did they wake up to such a big risk being taken...
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Originally posted by Quackdoc View Post
what are you talking about here? you can still enable the codecs in git...
Support for building Mesa with select video codecs disabled out of software patent concerns.Last edited by marlock; 18 October 2022, 05:33 AM.
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Originally posted by marlock View Post
Isn't that what this means?
Sure enough you can use an old version of mesa, or patch the new code, but that's very different from flipping a flag when compiling the new code.
now you specify something like -Dvideo-codecs h264enc h265dec etc.
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