Re: Packaging libopenaptx for pipewire

Re: Packaging libopenaptx for pipewire.eml Betreff: Re: Packaging libopenaptx for pipewire Von: Gombos Gergely <gombosg(a)disroot.org&gt; Datum: 18.12.20, 00:17 An: rpmfusion-developers(a)lists.rpmfusion.org Kopie (CC): pasik(a)iki.fi Hi, Update: I received info that aptX patents have expired. I'm optimistic so I'm submitting to Fedora first. We'll see. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908922 Best regards, Greg 2020. 12. 17, csütörtök keltezéssel 22.22-kor Gombos Gergely ezt írta: > Hi, > > I'm the packager of pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld. > It provides AAC, LDAC and aptX for Bluetooth users. I think quite > many > Fedora users depend on it. > > There's a lot going on in Fedora regarding pipewire, and a question > for > me is BT support. The upstream devs of pulseaudio-module-bluetooth- > freeworld are also contributing to pipewire, fortunately. > > See this: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/249 > > It's literally improving day by day. > > What seems to be the case is that pipewire can already be built with > aptX and ldac support: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/spa/meson.... > > Distros who don't care about licenses so much like Arch already build > it with these as dependencies: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pipewire/ > > In Fedora this may not be as simple.:) > > LDAC is not an issue, that's packaged in Fedora. > > Pali's libopenaptx is not packaged yet: > https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx > > It's LGPL2.1, but apparently contains "derived from ffmpeg 4.0 > project" > stuff. Is there a chance that this can make its way into Fedora, > given > that ffmpeg is in rpmfusion due to patent encumberance? > > If you are sure it can't then I can save myself from waiting for > legal > reviews etc.:) > > The other question is then, how to enable aptX in pipewire in case > libopenaptx can only be packaged in rpmfusion? > > Only by shipping some pipewire-free which is essentially pipewire > with > added rpmfusion dependencies? Or should we start encouraging upstream > to create some modular system for this, so that these codecs/BT > support > are in more easily replacable libraries? (Like pulseaudio-module- > bluetooth is) > > I appreciate your help on this! > > Best regards, > Greg _______________________________________________ rpmfusion-developers mailing list --rpmfusion-developers(a)lists.rpmfusion.org To unsubscribe send an email torpmfusion-developers-leave(a)lists.rpmfusion.org