About chromium packaging

[Kevin Kofler]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> <sigh> I don't understand why you keep repeating this. I'm sure we can
> come-up with a patch to make the codec-lists a runtime configurable
> thing, this is not rocket science.

If you want to have a try at fixing this, look, e.g., at the member variable 
media::MimeUtil::allow_proprietary_codecs_, i.e., the way it is initialized 
(to a compile-time hardcoded value) and the way it is used (in several 
places).

The right way would really be to remove the boolean variable (which only 
allows a binary all-or-nothing approach to patent-encumbered codecs) 
entirely and query for each individual codec at runtime. But then, you will 
likely be querying FFmpeg directly, whereas for Samsung's GStreamer backend 
(which is also affected by this issue, see 
https://github.com/Samsung/ChromiumGStreamerBackend/issues/16 ), one would 
have to query GStreamer directly instead. You would also likely be touching 
several code places related to codec support.

A less invasive approach would simply try to initialize 
media::MimeUtil::allow_proprietary_codecs_ to a runtime-detected value.

        Kevin Kofler