[packman] Trouble with Vivaldi and h.264 Videos

["Ulf Bartholomäus"]

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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