openSUSE Making It Easier To Install H.264 Codec Support

[King InuYasha]

OpenH264 is mostly used for decoding. x264 is an encoder. While OpenH264 can encode, no one uses that functionality.

Not true. OpenH264 is exclusively used by multiple programs for real-time H.264 encoding. It's the only H.264 encoder supported by the WebRTC library used in Chromium/Electron, for example. OpenH264 was designed for performance in real-time encoding, whereas x264 is designed for traditional multi-pass AOT encoding. It's a good encoder, mind you, but it does have trade-offs of its own.

[Estranged1906]

If they're so afraid of getting sued (wonder why Canonical isn't though!) they should just add a button in Yast that says "install all codecs and hw acceleration bits from third-party repos" which then pulls it from Packman or Cisco or whatever.

[Quackdoc]

If they're so afraid of getting sued (wonder why Canonical isn't though!) they should just add a button in Yast that says "install all codecs and hw acceleration bits from third-party repos" which then pulls it from Packman or Cisco or whatever.

its then up to those third parties to package for them, which is not great, there also may be a degree of liability still to be had, its important to note, you can still add non-free repos and get these codecs on fedora

[Estranged1906]

its then up to those third parties to package for them, which is not great, there also may be a degree of liability still to be had, its important to note, you can still add non-free repos and get these codecs on fedora

But these repos already exist. In any case it would be easy to outsource it to the OpenSUSE community who is not a corporate entity

[cooperate]

This is so ridiculous. Especially disabling hardware decoding which I paid for and developer of this hardware paid all licensing fees for me. Why I can't use hardware one, where it is as simple as sending a frame and receiving array of pixels without any intermediate patented software implementation.

Because it doesn't work that way.

[Quackdoc]

But these repos already exist. In any case it would be easy to outsource it to the OpenSUSE community who is not a corporate entity

even if SUSE outsourced it, it wouldn't matter, it needs to be distributed by THE people with the rights to distribute, and again, there may be some liability still by enabling those repos by default, unless the later concern is addressed it wouldn't matter who ships it.