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Hacker News<p>Closing the Chapter on OpenH264</p><p><a href="https://bbhtt.space/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-openh264/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bbhtt.space/posts/closing-the-</span><span class="invisible">chapter-on-openh264/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenH264</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Closure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Closure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoCodec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoCodec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/H264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>H264</span></a></p>
GNU/Trinukso ۞<p>Acabo de leer que en la próxima actualización del tiempo de ejecución <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freedesktop</span></a> 23.08 van a quitar la extensión <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/openh264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openh264</span></a> (binarios distribuidos por <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cisco</span></a>).</p><p>Al parecer hay un aviso de seguridad que no pueden hacer un "backport" por tema licencias ni llevar la nueva versión a este tiempo de ejecución por estabilidad de "multiple ABI breaks and SONAME bumps upstream."</p><p>Esto no afecta a la versión 24.08 que sí puede recibir la versión actual de Cisco.</p><p><a href="https://discourse.flathub.org/t/upcoming-freedesktop-23-08-runtime-release-will-drop-openh264-extension/9022" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discourse.flathub.org/t/upcomi</span><span class="invisible">ng-freedesktop-23-08-runtime-release-will-drop-openh264-extension/9022</span></a></p>
openSUSE Linux<p>Community repo support is here! 🎯 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Myrlyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Myrlyn</span></a> now lets you add Packman, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openh264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openh264</span></a>, libdvdcss &amp; <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NVIDIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NVIDIA</span></a> with ease! Manage your repos like a pro! 💚 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openSUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openSUSE</span></a> <a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/10/myrlyn-now-handles-community-repos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.opensuse.org/2025/02/10/m</span><span class="invisible">yrlyn-now-handles-community-repos/</span></a></p>
Marcel SIneM(S)US<p>Und gleich mal im <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> :firefox: deaktiviert ...</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenH264</span></a>-Sicherheitslücke: Schadcode über Videos im Browser | Security <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/OpenH264-Sicherheitsluecke-in-Ciscos-Video-Codec-gefaehrdet-Firefox-10291399.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/news/OpenH264-Sicherh</span><span class="invisible">eitsluecke-in-Ciscos-Video-Codec-gefaehrdet-Firefox-10291399.html</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Cisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cisco</span></a></p>
Nemeth/Star Productions 🇪🇺<p>Security Vulnerability in OpenH264 video codec</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenH264</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/videoCodec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>videoCodec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZeroDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZeroDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ITSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITSupport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a></p>
Sven N. 🇪🇺🇿🇦🇪🇹❤️<p>Security Vulnerability in OpenH264 video codec <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OpenH264" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenH264</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23videoCodec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#videoCodec</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ZeroDay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZeroDay</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Firefox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ITSupport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ITSupport</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Security</a></p>
Nemeth/Star Productions 🇪🇺<p>Security Vulnerability in OpenH264 video codec <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OpenH264" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenH264</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23videoCodec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#videoCodec</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ZeroDay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZeroDay</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Firefox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ITSupport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ITSupport</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Security</a></p>
Rui Carmo<p>People saying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/remote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>remote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desktop</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RDP</span></a> is slow have no idea how far we’ve come. Here’s the latest xrdp and xorgxrdp-glamor in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedora</span></a> testing, doing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenH264</span></a> encoding over Wi-Fi:</p>
Aral Balkan<p>Just rebooted and I’m up and running with Fedora Silverblue 40.</p><p>(Just tried reinstalling mozilla-openh264 – so videos work in Firefox – but it failed with the same error. Not a big deal, I’m using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Vivaldi</span></a></span> as my main browser these days anyway and I guess the Fedora folks will fix this in time.)</p><p>More importantly, I wonder if the screen reader has been fixed yet. (Yes, Fedora ships with a broken screen reader.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fedora40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedora40</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Silverblue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silverblue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>upgrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenH264</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/rpmOstree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rpmOstree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>error</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Note that I just encountered the following issue:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/536" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/fedora-silverblue/i</span><span class="invisible">ssue-tracker/issues/536</span></a></p><p>Which I worked around by removing mozilla-openh264 before running the rebase again, at which point it succeeded:</p><p>rpm-ostree remove mozilla-openh264</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fedora40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedora40</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Silverblue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silverblue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>upgrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenH264</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/rpmOstree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rpmOstree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>error</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>@Linux_Is_Best yeah, I refuse <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DRM</span></a> and go out of my way to yeet the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenH264" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenH264</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>codec</span></a> from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Firefox</span></a> because the only way to stop <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> is to not be part of it and openly fight against it!</p>
openSUSE Linux<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openSUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openSUSE</span></a> is excited to give users a better out-of-the-box experience. A big thank you to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cisco</span></a>'s open-source team. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openh264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openh264</span></a> <a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2023/01/24/opensuse-simplifies-codec-install/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.opensuse.org/2023/01/24/o</span><span class="invisible">pensuse-simplifies-codec-install/</span></a></p>