[Bug 518546] Review Request: libva - VAAPI video playback acceleration

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Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |182235(FE-Legal)




--- Comment #7 from Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>  2009-09-04 13:56:22 EDT ---
I've realized there are potential patent issues with this package. It includes
one working backend, i965_drv_video, which does accelerated MPEG decoding on
Intel i965 hardware.

I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about the applicable patents in this area,
nor enough of a coder to understand exactly what gets done in the code in libva
as opposed to what gets done in the hardware on the card, so I don't know if
this component of the package is shippable in Fedora or not. We can always ship
the package without it, but I'd like to find out whether that's necessary.
Hence, blocking FE-LEGAL.

The code in question is in the i965_drv_video/ directory within the source
tarball in the SRPM. Thanks!

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