Closing the Chapter on OpenH264

Closing the chapter on OpenH264 People might have noticed me talking about dropping OpenH264 from Freedesktop SDK. Here, I’ll try to go a bit into the history, the timeline and what led to the final decision. A bit of an introduction If you are unfamiliar with the Freedesktop SDK project: it was born out of the initial 1.6 Flatpak runtime image created by Alexander Larsson to provide a host independent “runtime” for Flatpaks. Since then, with the help of Codethink and others, it grew into an independent project maintained by the community that aims to provide a “A minimal Linux runtime”. Currently that includes the org.freedesktop.{Sdk, Platform} Flatpak runtimes, a bunch of other Flatpak extensions such as the GL (Mesa) extensions, a bootable image stack that includes things like the Linux kernel, firmware and drivers and a collection of docker images. The runtimes (and more broadly the “Flatpak” stack) form the base for the GNOME and KDE Flatpak runtimes which are collectively u ... Read full article.