On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 09:25 +0100, Johannes Weberhofer wrote:
Am 21.02.2018 um 06:57 schrieb Dave Plater:
On 21/02/18 07:33, Johannes Weberhofer wrote:
Dear all!
I'm one of the Remmina and freerdp maintainers just working on the next version of this product. freerdp would allow us to connect to windows systems using the x264 codec which is currently not supported by openSUSE.
Enabling x264 would allow the client to use the hardware decoding and thus increase speed and save energy. Is there any plan to include the required library into openSUSE? Are there (still) licensing preventing openSUSE from doing so?
Best regards
Yes the patents for h264 a.k.a x264 are still going to be valid for a long time so you have to install from a third party repository.
Regards Dave P
I don't really undestand these legal stuff, but could https://github.com/cisco/openh264 be included?
Doubtful - whereas you can easily build/distribute CODE under a free license, the usage or distribution of the binary would be bound to financial fees for the usage of patents. h.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC, or MPEG-4 Part 10, Audio Video Coding is to a big degree licensed by the MPEG-LA, see http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/avcweb.pdf for the 'brochure'. Other patent owners, not associated to MPEG-LA, can also claim rights. Possibly also read the FAQ: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/FAQ.aspx Cheers Dominique PS: IANAL - so anything I say can be, and most likely is, wrong :)