Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM Leigh Scott leigh123linux@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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. > > x264 is only an encoder, it can't play video. openh264 can't play video either. I asked Claude to list the differences. https://claude.ai/share/e472fa45-48ee-4088-8e3b-e17e64f7b98d -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
