Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users
On 5/26/21 8:44 AM, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: Are you sure that hardware based H264/HEVC encoder/decoder usage license is not covered by the manufacturer/supplier of the hardware codecs ? Sorry, I was reading your message as "does my hardware allow me to freely use codecs" so

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Terry Barnaby via shifter-users
On 26/05/2021 14:30, Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users wrote: On 5/26/21 8:17 AM, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: As a slight aside to this. My "dnf install xpra" from the Fedora33 repositories + rpmfusion + fedora-cisco-openh264 repositories does in fact have h264 and h265 support.

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users
On 5/26/21 8:17 AM, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: As a slight aside to this. My "dnf install xpra" from the Fedora33 repositories + rpmfusion + fedora-cisco-openh264 repositories does in fact have h264 and h265 support. So I presume the Fedora33 standard ffmpeg is being extended to

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users
On 5/26/21 8:24 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: Disabling the codecs at build time is not enough if we want to be pedantic. Let's digress a bit more then: why not? As someone who has worked with patented software and seen what Fedora Legal (a.k.a. Red Hat Legal) requires for

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin via shifter-users
> As a slight aside to this. My "dnf install xpra" from the Fedora33 > repositories + rpmfusion + fedora-cisco-openh264 repositories does in > fact have h264 and h265 support. So I presume the Fedora33 standard > ffmpeg is being extended to support h264 by "plugin" h264 packages from > those

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin via shifter-users
On 26/05/2021 19:56, Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users wrote: > On 5/26/21 7:43 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: >> For the sake of completeness, this is not 100% accurate: ffmpeg can be >> built under the GPL license and without the nonfree codecs. >> xpra's ffmpeg encoder which we

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Terry Barnaby via shifter-users
On 26/05/2021 13:56, Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users wrote: On 5/26/21 7:43 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: For the sake of completeness, this is not 100% accurate: ffmpeg can be built under the GPL license and without the nonfree codecs. xpra's ffmpeg encoder which we are

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users
On 5/26/21 7:43 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: For the sake of completeness, this is not 100% accurate: ffmpeg can be built under the GPL license and without the nonfree codecs. xpra's ffmpeg encoder which we are discussing in this thread can be enabled without those. Whether that's

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin via shifter-users
On 26/05/2021 19:06, Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users wrote: > On 5/26/21 2:52 AM, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: >> Is there any reason why the Fedora system packages should be so >> different ? I can see they wouldn't be so up-to-date but I would have >> thought the Fedora

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth via shifter-users
On 5/26/21 2:52 AM, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: Is there any reason why the Fedora system packages should be so different ? I can see they wouldn't be so up-to-date but I would have thought the Fedora maintainer would take the upstream as close as possible. It would be a better user

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Antoine Martin via shifter-users
On 26/05/2021 14:52, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: > Thanks for the reply and your work on xpra. I certainly looks a good > remote desktop access system especially with the individual application > support. > > On 26/05/2021 05:39, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: >> (..) >>> I

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-26 Thread Terry Barnaby via shifter-users
Thanks for the reply and your work on xpra. I certainly looks a good remote desktop access system especially with the individual application support. On 26/05/2021 05:39, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: (..) I much prefer to use base system packages wherever possible. Me too,

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-21 Thread Terry Barnaby via shifter-users
Many thanks for the reply, notes below. On 21/05/2021 13:10, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote: On 21/05/2021 16:09, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: Hi, I am testing the usage of xpra between two Intel Fedora33 systems. It functions fine with default encoding (whatever is used)

Re: [winswitch] Fedora33 xpra h264 encoding support not working

2021-05-21 Thread Antoine Martin via shifter-users
On 21/05/2021 16:09, Terry Barnaby via shifter-users wrote: > Hi, > > I am testing the usage of xpra between two Intel Fedora33 systems. It > functions fine with default encoding (whatever is used) but I cannot > enable h264 encoding to test with this. > > I have tried using the default Fedora