On 08/07/2016 03:12 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Neal Gompa wrote: >> >>> My biggest concern among all the choices is the multimedia support. >>> Fedora cannot ship a full-featured codec stack in any of its spins due >>> to various legal issues. >> Means, it's not an issue specific to any browser (they all suffer >> similarly), so probably will be a minor issue in *this* decision-making, >> imo. >> > That's not quite true. For example, Chromium is built with a bundled > custom ffmpeg, and it's not split out into its own subpackage, meaning > that there's no way to replace it without having to rebuild all of > Chromium. Chromium is hard to build and harder for users to build. > > Since we don't have a system-wide ffmpeg package, I assume we have the > same problem with QtWebEngine, too. That affects every QtWebEngine > based browser. Well, for QtWebEngine it should be possible to add a nonfree version to rpmfusion. No need to rebuilt QupZilla. Already tested locally. We just have to find a way to coexist with Fedora package. > >>> How do the browsers compare for the Fedora user who wants to get more >> codec support himself? >> >> That said, firefox (or any browser utilizing gstreamer) has a slight edge >> here, due to >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 >> >> but that's still not great nor a 100% solution, outside of using patented >> stuff from rpmfusion.org. > As of Fedora 24, Firefox does not use GStreamer. The Mozilla community > decided to remove it. Apparently, no one thought it was any good. > > I seem to recall that QtWebKit could be used with GStreamer. Do we > have any web browsers that use QtWebKit, Qt5, and GStreamer? > Yes, there is otter-browser. But QtWebKit is obsolete and lacks several security fixes. I read about a fork of QtWebKit some weeks ago, but nothing official (yet?). Greetings, Christian _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
