Building with H.264 support

[James Willcox]

Hi,

I am trying to build Chromium with support for H.264 video support enabled.  AFAICT, it looks like adding ffmpeg_branding=Chrome to the gyp defines should be all that is necessary.  This does build the relevant ffmpeg bits, but I still have no H.264 support in HTML5 videos.  A little help?  What else do I need to do?

Thanks,
James

[James Willcox]

Of course, shortly after sending this I found out what was going on.  There is a ifdef guard in net/base/mime_util.cc that evidently caused the relevant mime types to be ignored.  Kind of difficult to find.  I wonder, why there is this hard coded list instead of simply asking ffmpeg "can you decode this"?

James

[Nico Weber]

Hi,

I don't know, but since this is a pretty developement-level question,
you might get a better answer on chromium-dev.

Nico

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[Eric Roman]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:27 PM, James Willcox <sn...@snorp.net> wrote:

Of course, shortly after sending this I found out what was going on.  There is a ifdef guard in net/base/mime_util.cc that evidently caused the relevant mime types to be ignored.  Kind of difficult to find.  I wonder, why there is this hard coded list instead of simply asking ffmpeg "can you decode this"?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21318

 

James

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, James Willcox <sn...@snorp.net> wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to build Chromium with support for H.264 video support enabled.  AFAICT, it looks like adding ffmpeg_branding=Chrome to the gyp defines should be all that is necessary.  This does build the relevant ffmpeg bits, but I still have no H.264 support in HTML5 videos.  A little help?  What else do I need to do?

Thanks,
James