Bug 768633 – www-client/vivaldi: consider warning about priorietary-codecs and widevine USE if disabled

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexey Skobkin 2021-02-04 10:05:44 UTC]

The latest version of vivaldi (3.6.2165.34) wasn't installed with udpate-ffmpeg and update-widevine scripts, but was also unable to update proprietary ffmpeg codecs itself after restart.

So in the end I'm unable to play H.264 and other proprietary formats in the browser after update.

Reproducible: Didn't try

[Comment 1 Alexey Skobkin 2021-02-04 10:07:15 UTC]

On run it says:

$ vivaldi
'Proprietary media' support is not installed. Attempting to fix this for the next restart.
<...>

But after restart it's the same.

[Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens 2021-02-04 10:29:04 UTC]

I don't think these are intended to be installed and may in fact break things if used, from the ebuild:

    # Remove scripts that will most likely break things.
    rm ${VIVALDI_HOME}/update-{ffmpeg,widevine} || die

I gave it a try with that version and USE="priorietary-codecs widevine" and playback is working as expected.

[Comment 3 Alexey Skobkin 2021-02-04 12:13:03 UTC]

> USE="priorietary-codecs widevine"

Thanks. Looks like I've missed introduction of these flags. I think user should be warned about them in the package message after installation.

[Comment 4 pogosyan 2021-02-10 05:37:02 UTC]

Same here, missed these new USE flags.   Funny that enabling them downloads the whole chrome tarball