From: "Jakub Kądziołka" <kuba@kadziolka.net>
To: 38831@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38831: IceCat: some codecs don't work without workaround
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:24:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191231142401.qt2oxe6jkefsxxnd@zdrowyportier.kadziolka.net> (raw)
Hello,
I had some problems with video codecs in IceCat 68.3.0-guix0-preview1.
For example, consider this page: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/. By
default, the videos under the headings H.264 / AAC and MPEG4 don't work
("No video with supported format and MIME type found.").
The following steps make the first of these videos work:
1. Open about:config
2. Click "I accept the risk!"
3. Set security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist to /gnu/store/
(the trailing / is important).
The instructions were originally sketched out in this help-guix
message:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-12/msg00150.html
I believe it would be beneficial to make this a default.
On IRC, bandali suggested that it would be better to only whitelist the
necessary store subdirectories. I don't know how to gather such a list,
but it it seems like a good idea.
I don't know how about:config entries modified by the user behave when
IceCat is updated, but in some of the behaviors I can imagine, the
config entry stops updating, in which case it would be better to add
the paths to some internal whitelist (I reckon such a whitelist already
exists and contains something like /usr/lib).
Regards,
Jakub Kądziołka
CC: mhw as suggested by nckx
next reply other threads:[~2019-12-31 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-31 14:24 Jakub Kądziołka [this message]
[not found] <87blts4gmv.fsf@gmail.com>
2019-11-03 16:33 ` Video Rendering Issues on IceCat Raghav Gururajan
2019-11-03 22:37 ` bug#38045: " Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-11-04 0:41 ` Chris Marusich
2019-11-04 13:02 ` Raghav Gururajan
[not found] ` <973472324a8a0c24073a9f7106bff044@disroot.org>
2019-11-04 16:25 ` Mark H Weaver
[not found] ` <874kzjmww2.fsf@netris.org>
2019-11-04 16:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-01-16 6:24 ` bug#38045: IceCat: some codecs don't work without workaround Mark H Weaver
2020-01-16 12:29 ` bug#38831: " Julien Lepiller
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