Public bug reported: Binary package hint: chromium-browser
the chromium-browser package has been in Lucid for a while now. In order for it to support the HTML5 audio and video tags, a codec package is needed. Those codecs are part of the upstream (giant) source tree. They are from Alexander Strange's ffmpeg-mt (multi-threaded) branch. Chromium devs added some patches and rewrote the build system (configure) to use their own gyp (already in lucid). Depending on the branding set at build time, the codecs could come in two flavors: a/ when built with ffmpeg_branding=Chromium, only ogg, vorbis and theora are produced b/ when built with ffmpeg_branding=Chrome, we obtain ogg/vorbis/theora + aac/ac3/mpeg4audio/h264/mov/mp3 (in both cases, a single libffmpegsumo.so is produced) the choice a/ is similar to what Mozilla does for Firefox but b/ is needed for major sites like Youtube and Vimeo. There's a heated debate, especially regarding the use of H.264. In order to give users the choice, i've created the chromium-codecs- ffmpeg (src) package (splitted away from the browser) to produce the two flavors of codecs, respectively chromium-codecs-ffmpeg and chromium- codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree. At the moment, the browser "Recommends: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg | chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree". Once the codecs are in, i will revert it back to "Depends". The current packaging is available at: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg.head/files/head:/debian/ Before I upload to lucid and wait in NEW, i wouldn't mind a feedback. ** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [FFe] chromium-codecs-ffmpeg for lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
