[packman] Trouble with Vivaldi and h.264 Videos

[Aliaksei Padvalski]

[Solved] Add ffmpeg codecs for browsers based on Chromium.
zypper in chromium-ffmpeg-extra

13.03.2017, 23:08, "Ulf Bartholomäus" <ub1x at gmx.net>:
> Hi,
>
>>  Gesendet: Montag, 13. März 2017 um 15:00 Uhr; Von: "Aliaksei Padvalski"
>>
>>  Vivaldi does not support the audio or video format "h264"
>
> normally should be inclueded in libffmpeg.so - but this one is the
> restricted one and not linkt with ffmpeg from packman. What is the
> reason?
>
> Regards
> Ulf
>
>>  13.03.2017, 10:26, "Ulf Bartholomäus" <ub1x at gmx.net>:
>>  > Hi Packman Team,
>>  >
>>  > I use openSUSE Tumbleweed with Packman Repositories. After installation, Vivaldi looks and works fine on many pages (with disabled flash). But on some there comes a warning (in German "Ihr Browser unterstützt keinen h.264 Codec" - free translated "the browser don't support the h.264 Codec"). But if I check the installation:
>>  >
>>  > # zypper se -is vivaldi
>>  > S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
>>  > --+---------+---------+----------------+--------+-----------
>>  > i | vivaldi | package | 1.7.735.46-1.2 | x86_64 | packman
>>  >
>>  > and
>>  >
>>  > # locate libffmpeg
>>  > /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4.13.1.debug
>>  > /usr/lib64/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4
>>  > /usr/lib64/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4.13.1
>>  > /usr/lib64/vivaldi/lib/libffmpeg.so
>>  > /usr/share/iron/libffmpegsumo.so
>>  >
>>  > I can see that the libffmpeg.so is installed in the
>>  > /usr/lib64/vivaldi/
>>  > folder:
>>  > /usr/lib64/vivaldi/lib/libffmpeg.so
>>  >
>>  > But I don't know, why it don't work :-(
>>  >
>>  > ===========================================================
>>  > I posted this in the Vivaldi Forum:
>>  > https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/122739
>>  >
>>  > and received following answer:
>>  >
>>  > ===========================================================
>>  > @UbIx
>>  > That libffmpeg.so which came with Vivaldi didn't build with proprietary parts.
>>  > You would need libffmpeg.so built with it & also built with same or near Chromium version Vivaldi based from.
>>  >
>>  > It's not common there's major change between version that cause hiccup in libffmpeg.so, but it does happen. For example current Vivaldi Snapshot is based from Chromium 57. But I use libffmpeg.so from Ubuntu built from Chromium 56.
>>  >
>>  > Related post to libffmpeg.so & openSuse; https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/85798
>>  > ===========================================================
>>  >
>>  > May you please verify this, and give me a short feed back?
>>  >
>>  > Regards
>>  > Ulf
>>  >
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