Re: [gentoo-user] >=www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

[Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com>]

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 On 08/17/2010 04:54 AM, Nganon wrote:
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> On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com
> <mailto:drukargin@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33
>     no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support
>     for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5 video at youtube; it
>     will never load).
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>     I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg,
>     which does not fix h264 video and causes crashes on webm videos:
>     probably why we went back to the bundled ffmpeg.
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>     Has anyone else noticed this?  Is there a straightforward
>     work-around beyond going back to 6.0.472.14ish?
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>     Thanks,
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>     -Andy
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> Using system-ffmpeg is commented as TODO in the ebuild refering to [1]. 
> There is also bug report[2] related to this. Seems like it maybe fixed
> in a never branch than 472.
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> [1] http://crbug.com/50678
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329641
>
Thanks for the info.  That doesn't entirely answer my question,
though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support? 
Google's youtube.com/html5 page suggests that Chrome (and thus
chromium?) supports h264.  Is this a licensing issue going to the open
source build that I've not heard of yet?

Thanks again,

-Andy

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