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Oh No! Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs [Here's Why!]


Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 28, 2022


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↺ Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs


Fedora is a popular Linux distro that caters to users who want cutting-edge tech on their workstations (and servers).


It doesn't ship with any proprietary components and sticks to completely open-source repositories by default.


While that can be inconvenient for some already, now it seems another change may bother users looking forward to Fedora 37.


A recent commit to Mesa on Fedora tells us that the Video Acceleration API support has been disabled for H.264, H.265, and VC-1 codecs due to legal worry.


This is likely to be backported to Fedora 36 as well.


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