Historically, Fedora has been the only top ten Linux distribution missing a significant chunk of multimedia software mostly due to FFmpeg being excluded from the distribution for legal reasons. With the introduction of a limited build of FFmpeg in February 2022, that changed. Less than a year later, a number of previously forbidden codecs have been approved for inclusion in Fedora. Following these events, Fedora saw an influx of multimedia-related packages. While much progress has been made, there are still over 200 packages in a popular third party repository that could potentially be moved to Fedora.
During this hackfest, we will:
- find eligible packages from a popular third party repository,
- try to build them using only Fedora repositories,
- attempt to fix any issues we encounter and
- submit selected packages for review and inclusion in Fedora.
Let's close that multimedia gap!
