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Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE (www.phoronix.com)
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While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Me as a Fedora hater: runs pacman -Syu

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

its only an issue if people dont use the codecs out of rpmfusion, the fedora adjacent nonfree repos

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Doesn't sound like a very good excuse to me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

take it up with software patents I guess

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