Re: Remove openh264?

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Leigh Scott venit, vidit, dixit 2025-05-29 16:59:11:
> Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28 2025 at 04:51:33 PM -05:00:00, Chris Adams 
> > linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > This package is for playing one particular encoding of videos (and 
> > > only
> > > certain profiles of that encoding from what I understand).  There's 
> > > also
> > > nothing preventing Fedora from pointing users to Cisco's site to get
> > > their provided binaries.
> > > OK, but in practice, it enables playback of almost all the videos that 
> > users actually care about. With openh264 installed, you can watch most 
> > videos in your web browser, download them, and play them locally in 
> > Totem or Showtime. Otherwise, you cannot.
> 
> x264 is superior for playback, openh264 only advantages are it's free and has better webrtc performance.
> Most users would be better served using gstreamer1-plugins-ugly and ffmpeg-libs from rpmfusion.

So, are you saying that with

ffmpeg-libs gstreamer1-plugins-ugly x264-libs noopenh264

users will be able to disable the cisco repo and still play the same
videos and use webrtc?

Real question, I'd get rid of all things cisco immediately.

Michael
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