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bug#34605: ungoogled-chromium: proprietary codecs enabled?
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#34605: ungoogled-chromium: proprietary codecs enabled? |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:50:50 +0100 |
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Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm forwarding this, extracted from this message
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2019-02/msg00083.html
>
> Luke <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> Some GN prefs missing from chromium.scm:
>> ---
>> ;; Disable non-free codecs
>> "proprietary_codecs=false"
>
> while ungoogled-chromiun package definition now contains
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; Don't arbitrarily restrict formats supported by system ffmpeg.
> "proprietary_codecs=true"
> "ffmpeg_branding=\"Chrome\""
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> does this conflicts with GNU FSDG?
As far as I understand, this lets Chromium use whatever codecs are
provided by the system ffmpeg. Restrictions in codecs are up to the
ffmpeg package, not Chromium.
--
Ricardo