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Bhattcharya: Closing the chapter on OpenH264
Tuesday March 25, 2025. 05:20 PM , from LWN.net
Boudhayan Bhattcharya has posted a lengthy article
about the announcement that the Freedesktop project is dropping OpenH264 from the Freedesktop SDK for Flatpak applications and runtimes. Some Flatpak applications that depend on the Freedesktop runtime version 23.08 will lose H.264 playback support starting with the release scheduled for April, unless application developers replace it with the ffmpeg-full extension. The 24.08 runtime is unaffected, and future releases will include a new codecs-extra extension to replace OpenH264 that includes FFmpeg with support for a number of patented codecs. Considering all things, I think and hope we made the correct decision and hopefully the new org.freedesktop.Platform.codecs-extra works out. libx264, libx265 and others are built from source and there are no binaries or extra-data involved. So we should theoretically be able to patch and fix any issues that come up in the future. Apart from all this, I'm slightly worried at the prospects of legal issues cropping up with this setup and also that the new extension contains 'too much', but we will have to see where things flow.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1015408/
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