[gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

[gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

[Petric Frank]

Hello,

during an upgrade i got a message that media-plugins/npapi-vlc have been 
masked and being removed from portage.

The reasoning is understandable (Firefox removes NPAPI interface). But what to 
use instead ?

kind regards
  Petric

Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

[Thomas Schmitz]

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Hi Petric,

as far as I know the VLC browser plugin allows you to play back media using
VLC. However in my opinion you don't need that. Firefox has its own
playback backend and hence it can play back media without the VLC plugin.

So I think you shouldn't run into any issues if you don't use npapi-vlc. To
my understanding Firefox bundles its own codecs unless specified otherwise
through USE flags.


Regards

Thomas Schmitz

On 30 January 2018 at 11:50, Petric Frank <pfrank@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> during an upgrade i got a message that media-plugins/npapi-vlc have been
> masked and being removed from portage.
>
> The reasoning is understandable (Firefox removes NPAPI interface). But
> what to
> use instead ?
>
> kind regards
>   Petric
>
>
>

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