Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, May 28 2025 at 04:51:33 PM -05:00:00, Chris Adams 
> li...@cmadams.net wrote:
> > This package is for playing one particular encoding of videos (and 
> > only
> > certain profiles of that encoding from what I understand).  There's 
> > also
> > nothing preventing Fedora from pointing users to Cisco's site to get
> > their provided binaries.
> > OK, but in practice, it enables playback of almost all the videos that 
> users actually care about. With openh264 installed, you can watch most 
> videos in your web browser, download them, and play them locally in 
> Totem or Showtime. Otherwise, you cannot.

x264 is superior for playback, openh264 only advantages are it's free and has 
better webrtc performance.
Most users would be better served using gstreamer1-plugins-ugly and ffmpeg-libs 
from rpmfusion.
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