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Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE (www.phoronix.com)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Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability.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] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh my god, I've been dealing wih his shit for so long. Can't even use video conferencing websites on firefox - firefox uses openh264 too.

If anyone has a workaround to install this without involving CISCO pleeeeaaaaaaase let me know

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Are you using rpmfusion?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm on Linux Mint, not Fedora.

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