Re: RFC: New dependency on FFmpeg?

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 08/21/2015 09:18 AM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> Did libav drop whatever patent-encumbered code from ffmpeg? If not, I
> don't see how this solves any patent issues for distros that care
> about it.

GStreamer plugins can be shipped outside of the distribution.

Example: Fedora ships gstreamer with patent free codecs. RPMFusion ships additional 
patent encumbered plugins that Fedora users can install.

* Install Fedora
* dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-good
* Install RPMFusion repository
* dnf install gstreamer1-libav