# Compiling Mesa 22.2 with codec support (the easy way)

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**Created:** [August 18, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/compiling-mesa-22-2-with-codec-support-the-easy-way/30390 "2022-08-18T19:05:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Echoa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/echoa/32/77553_2.png) [@Echoa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Echoa)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/compiling-mesa-22-2-with-codec-support-the-easy-way/30390/17 "2022-09-28T16:13:34Z")

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Fedora disabled it as is expected

> **[Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264 / H.265 / VC1 VA-API Support Over Legal...](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API)**
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> For Fedora Linux users currently making use of Mesa's VA-API support with the open-source AMD graphics driver or similar and using it to speed-up H.264, H.265, or VC1 decoding, you may soon be out of luck and will have to fall-back to either using...

The people in the comments seem to think flatpak will be fine but flatpak folks seem likely to follow a similar path to Fedora looking at their mesa-git and related issues.

If Flatpak drops it I’ll figure a way for building mesa Flatpak on Arch in an easy way

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