Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 28, 2017 18:18 UTC (Thu) by mcatanzaro (subscriber, #93033)
In reply to: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers by karkhaz
Parent article: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

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...