Re: [Linphone-users] No video codecs

[Alastair Johnson]

Fedora generally don't include patented codecs such as h264 as a matter of 
policy. You usually have to go to a non-fedora repo like rpmfusion for those 
codecs. Check which repo your x264 package came from - I bet it's rpmfusion or 
some other repo, not fedora. Blame laws on software patents for this 
situation.

The fedora-packaged linphone in F12 is rather old (2.1.1) and doesn't appear 
to have any video codecs installed, probably due to the patent policy. 
Rpmfusion don't appear to have it packaged, so the alternatives are to build 
it yourself or find some other precompiled version.

On Monday 06 December 2010, Jonas Kellens wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that Fedora 12 does not have libraries for
> H263 and H264 video codecs.
> 
> address@hidden Jonas]# yum install x264
> Package x264-0.0.0-0.27.20091109git3daa02e.fc12.i686 already installed
> and latest version
> 
> I personally think it is Linphone that does not see the codecs.
> 
> So my question: how do I get the H263 & H264 codecs for Linphone ?