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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#34605: ungoogled-chromium: proprietary codecs enabled?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:50:50 +0100
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To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: 34605@debbugs.gnu.org, Luke <g4jc@hyperbola.info>


Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm forwarding this, extracted from this message
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2019-02/msg00083.html
>
> Luke <g4jc@hyperbola.info> 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