[Arm-netbook] Sorry state of Linux hardware video decoder libraries / lack of single API

[Gordan Bobic]

On 06/25/2012 05:05 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> although libav/FFmpeg is mainly a native codec and container library
>> it does have a few wrappers to external codecs - again most of them
>> native CPU libs.
>
> I guess VP8/WebM is not built-into ffmpeg, but is using libvpx.
>
>>    .... pretty much all of which have plugin support, pretty much all of
>> which boil down to ffmpeg.  so it's not as bad as it looks - just
>> fucking irritating that cedarx is proprietary.
>
> Keep in mind, that some distros (Red Hat) are not shipping ffmpeg due
> to patent reasons.

But ffmpeg packages are available in the rpmforge repository so that's 
not exactly a big deal.

Gordan