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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Looking for advice - ffmpeg-free and wf-recorder
From:       Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour () gmail ! com>
Date:       2022-12-18 5:21:35
Message-ID: fb0576b7-56e3-5e46-6e4f-6f1575c7181d () gmail ! com
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On 12/18/22 00:19, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:18 AM Demi Marie Obenour
> <demiobenour@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/17/22 05:31, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
>>> On 17/12/2022 06:29, Bob Hepple wrote:
>>>> Now that we have ffmpeg-free we have an opportunity to move wf-recorder
>>>> to the mainstream and change the default codec to the non-proprietary
>>>> libopenh264.
>>>
>>> You still can't link against openh264 because Fedora can't ship it an
>>> even have in Koji's buildroot, you can only use dlopen().
>>
>> Could Fedora ship a shim library that exposed the same API and used
>> dlopen() internally?
> 
> In that case, why wouldn't we just adjust the program to dlopen() the
> library itself? We already did it for ffmpeg and webrtc, after all.

Because that requires per-program patches, whereas this approach does
not.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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