Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 28, 2017 17:21 UTC (Thu) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)
In reply to: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers by mcatanzaro
Parent article: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

> The other piece of proprietary software that's desired is Google Chrome, but that one I don't really care about

I'm curious: why would people possibly care about wanting to install Chrome as opposed to Chromium? Surely the handful of extra features that Chrome provides are not anything that anybody cares about?

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Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 28, 2017 18:18 UTC (Thu) by mcatanzaro (subscriber, #93033) [Link] (1 responses)

Fedora Chromium ships without ffmpeg support, for legal reasons, so there's no way to e.g. play MP4 videos. And it's not extensible, so there's no way to e.g. install extra codec packages from third-party repos.

My understanding is there is work in progress on a legal solution for GStreamer, but Chromium doesn't use GStreamer, so there's not really any hope for it at this time.

Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 29, 2017 0:00 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

>Fedora Chromium ships without ffmpeg support, for legal reasons, so there's no way to e.g. play MP4 videos. And it's not extensible, so there's no way to e.g. install extra codec packages from third-party repos.

Not entirely accurate. It is a hack but there is

https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/package/free/chromium-l...