The developers of Fedora Linux have disabled the use of the VA-API (Video Acceleration API) for hardware acceleration of video encoding and decoding in H.264, H.265 and VC-1 formats in the Mesa package supplied with the distribution. The change will be included in Fedora 37 and will affect configurations using open video drivers (AMDGPU, radeonsi, Nouveau, Intel, etc.). The change is also expected to be backported to the Fedora 36 branch.
Compliance with the rules adopted in the project regarding the supply of patented technologies is cited as the reason for the shutdown. In particular, the distribution does not allow the distribution of components that provide APIs for accessing proprietary algorithms, since the distribution of proprietary technologies requires licensing and may lead to legal problems. In the recent release of Mesa 22.2, an option was implemented to disable support for proprietary codecs in a build, which was used by the Fedora developers.
Source: opennet.ru