[packman] Trouble with Vivaldi and h.264 Videos

[Aliaksei Padvalski]

Vivaldi does not support the audio or video format "h264"


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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