Bug 329641

Summary:	www-client/chromium: Add USE="vpx" to enable VP8
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fiona Klute <fiona.klute>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dschridde+gentoobugs, jaime.mj
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Add USE="vpx" to enable VP8 support

Description Fiona Klute 2010-07-23 21:33:17 UTC

www-client/chromium applies "chromium-disable-vp8-r1.patch" to remove VP8 support. A comment in the ebuild gives the following reason:
"Disable VP8 until we have a recent enough system-provided ffmpeg."

However, media-video/ffmpeg-0.6 has been in the tree for quite a while and does support VP8 if USE="vpx" is set. Therefore, it should be possible to enable VP8 with a use-flag that adds the appropriate dependency.

I'll upload a patch against the chromium-6.0.472.0.ebuild that works for me.

Comment 1 Fiona Klute 2010-07-23 21:34:25 UTC

Created attachment 239955 [details, diff]
Add USE="vpx" to enable VP8 support

Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-08 05:16:18 UTC

Thank you for the patch. I'm going to unconditionally require ffmpeg[vpx] and drop the patch after we have a dev channel release with a newer branch than 472.

Comment 3 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-26 05:40:51 UTC

More recent ebuilds use bundled ffmpeg. I will likely use something like this patch when switching back.