openSUSE Simplifies Codec Installation
The openSUSE Project was inspired by Fedora’s efforts to make Cisco’s OpenH264 codecs and FDK AAC available to its users that members reached out to Cisco’s open-source team to do the same for its user base.
An obstacle to overcome is the current limitation for free redistribution of the codecs is 100,000 users, so board member Neal Gompa openSUSE’s Leap release manager Lubos Kocman proposed a way to simplify the codec installation in openSUSE.
The codec library, which supports H.264 encoding and decoding, is suitable for real-time-application use like WebRTC. The simplification of the installation will make out-of-the-box use much easier for openSUSE users.