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Re: [Ring] Ring packages for Fedora (was: Are the Arch linux packages go
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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Re: [Ring] Ring packages for Fedora (was: Are the Arch linux packages gone?) |
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Fri, 2 Feb 2018 13:04:53 -0500 (EST) |
Hello!
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> Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 5:19:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Ring packages for Fedora (was: [Ring] Are the Arch linux
> packages gone?)
> He Maxim,
>
> thanks for your reply and taking time!
>
> Related to RPM fusion:
> For me there seems to be the problem, that people already have to know about
> Ring.
> There is no chance to stumble and discover it through the categories of the
> AppCenter while searching for Apps they really need.
Yes, we also would prefer to be available 'out of the box' on Fedora, so we are
interested in evaluating all options.
> Related to the patents:
> 1. Why does Ring have to use FFMPEG at all?
It's currently used for processing (decoding/encoding) video and audio streams.
It's a required dependency of Ring.
> 2. Could https://pipewire.org/#about be an alternative?
>From a quick glance at the project, it seems PipeWire is about providing a
>similar set of features as PulseAudio but for videos. It is not dealing with
>the encoding/decoding of the streams directly itself but can be used with
>GStreamer, which can do that with its various plugins.
It might be possible to use GStreamer and a select choices of free and patent
unencumbered codecs, but I'd expect this to be a big effort (to adapt Ring for
it).
It'd be useful to make a detailed analysis of GStreamer to see how it fares
against FFmpeg.
Happy Friday!
Maxim