Hello everybody, I read about the new openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation - openSUSE News.
As far as I know, the ffmpeg bundled in Factory is not built with x264 for licensing issues. Is there anything that can be done with the new codec?
You can download & install it.
Do you mean from the OBS? Is there a new project for that ffmpeg?
Did you actually read the article you linked yourself? Add the repo and install the gstreamer plugin or one of the other packages…
sudo zypper ar http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed repo-openh264
There is absolutely no connection to the ffmpeg package…
I tried to do this with Leap 15.4. Repo files are inaccessible. So need to download to disk.
But Packman provides needed package, so no need for this with Packman being enabled.
Did you actually try to understand the question before jumping to keyboard?
And that was not the question. The question was whether there is ffmpeg built to use this codec.
IANAL, but from technical PoV package that is part of openSUSE cannot really depend on package that is external to openSUSE. So I do not think ffmpeg using this package will be available from openSUSE. And as mentioned, if you have to use external repository anyway you can just as well use Packman.
Unless there are significant advantages in the implementation provided by Cisco.
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Thank you! You’re right about still using an external repo, but I though that something provided directly from openSUSE could be simpler for the user.
The openSUSE Project was inspired by Fedora’s efforts to make Cisco’s OpenH264 codecs and FDK AAC available to its users that members reached out to Cisco’s open-source team to do the same for its user base.
The fact that the codec is provided but cannot be used with a lot of software (that relies on ffmpeg for example) is something that makes this accomplishment a little less useful unfortunately.
https://software.opensuse.org/package/mozilla-openh264
https://software.opensuse.org/package/gstreamer-1.20-plugin-openh264
Packages are unaccessible.
Packages are unaccessible.
You need to download them following this guide openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation - openSUSE News, not via the normal process.