Package Wishlist: Advanced Media Framework (AMF)

[KayJay7]

Please describe why this package is not eligible for Fedora? It includes encoders/decoders for patent encumbered media codecs. e.g.: h.264, h.265

Is this software redistributable? The software itself has an opensource library, developed and maintained by AMD as part of GPUOpen. The source is available at https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF

Additional context AMF is AMD's most featureful media encoding/decoding framework. It has always required the proprietary AMDVLK-PRO driver, but the latest version has experimental support for RADV so it can be packaged on it's own and used without AMD's proprietary drivers. Moreover, AMD has recently submitted patches to include AMF support in ffmpeg upstream. Currently AMD provides installers for SLE, RHEL, and Ubuntu.

[leigh123linux]

AMF is already included in fedora https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=35242

[KayJay7]

That package is only a src.rpm and cannot be installed by dnf.

Correction: after building it, it does not include the AMF runtime, but just header files (in the AMF-devel) and samples (in AMF-samples)

[leigh123linux]

$ sudo dnf info AMF*
Last metadata expiration check: 3:33:34 ago on Sun 12 May 2024 07:40:09 BST.
Available Packages
Name         : AMF-devel
Version      : 1.4.33
Release      : 1.fc40
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 2.8 M
Source       : AMF-1.4.33-1.fc40.src.rpm
Repository   : fedora
Summary      : Development files for AMF
URL          : https://gpuopen.com/advanced-media-framework/
License      : MIT
Description  : A light-weight, portable multimedia framework that abstracts away most of the
             : platform and API-specific details. AMF is supported on the closed source AMD
             : Pro driver and OpenMax on the open source AMD Mesa driver.
             : 
             : The AMF-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing
             : applications that use AMF.

Name         : AMF-samples
Version      : 1.4.33
Release      : 1.fc40
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 745 k
Source       : AMF-1.4.33-1.fc40.src.rpm
Repository   : fedora
Summary      : Sample files for AMF
URL          : https://gpuopen.com/advanced-media-framework/
License      : MIT
Description  : The AMF-samples package contains sample programs and source for applications
             : that use AMF.

[leigh123linux]

That package is only a src.rpm and cannot be installed by dnf.

Correction: after building it, it does not include the AMF runtime, but just header files (in the AMF-devel) and samples (in AMF-samples)

Isn't the runtime stuff provided by the closed source AMD driver packages which only support RHEL, Debian and Ubuntu

[KayJay7]

It is provided by the proprietary driver, but the installer that only supports rhel also allows to install AMF alone (according to the docs). I thought the runtime itself wasn't part of the proprietary driver but just provided with it. I also thought the runtime itself was opensource or at least redistributable, partly because they want it to run on RADV.

[leigh123linux]

It is provided by the proprietary driver, but the installer that only supports rhel also allows to install AMF alone (according to the docs). I thought the runtime itself wasn't part of the proprietary driver but just provided with it. I also thought the runtime itself was opensource or at least redistributable, partly because they want it to run on RADV.

To qualify as open source the un-compiled source code must be publicly available, can you find it?

[KayJay7]

I cannot, I thought the source was found at GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF but that is just the sdk.