On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
On Wednesday 27 November 2013 10:48:31 C wrote:
With no codec support... what's the point of building Chromium? This is like building VLC with no codec support. It's nice and all but not really practical for the actual end user.
It is not that there is no longer any codec support. The codecs here are regarding MP4 and H.264. Those will no longer be supported. Other codecs should still be supported.
Whatever happened with the whole thing of Cisco and H.264? http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-removes-barriers-webr... I can't pretend to understand the whole legal silliness behind it all, but... shouldn't "we" be able to use H.264?
It seems that without those two codecs, html5 starts using webm as the supported codec. We have to see which codecs we actually really loose and which ones are still there. The end situation will be the following:
As of this writing (May 5, 2011), Chromium supports standard the following: Vorbis audio codec Theora video codec VP8 video codec PCM 8-bit unsigned integer PCM 16-bit signed integer little endian PCM 32-bit float little endian Ogg container format WebM container format WAV container format
Which is a list of formats that are almost (not not quite) completely not used on the broader web. It would be nice to say, use only OGG for audio and so on, but... in the real world, people are not doing that. The not quite is particularly interesting for the webm format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM#Services
When building with the proprietary codec flag, there would also be support for MP3 audio codec AAC audio codec (Main only, not AAC-LC, AAC-SSR, HE-AAC) H.264 video codec MP4 container format
Which are the actual codecs users are very likely interested in (even if they don't know what they are called)... and the codecs that cannot be included because of legal requirements. We're back to the Catch-22 :-) Can we at least still plug-in PepperFlash with this new Chromium build with less codecs? (I have a feeling I'll be switching to the Chrome supplied by Google in the near future :-P ) C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org