Enabling proprietary codecs in chromium

[Sumit Agrawal]

As I understand from the available documentation, enabling proprietary codecs should be fairly simple.

I have created ~/.gyp/include.gypi with contents as below (xxx is placeholder)

{

'variables': {

    'google_api_key':               'xxx',

    'google_default_client_id':     'xxx',

    'google_default_client_secret': 'xxx',

  },

  'GYP_DEFINES':

    'proprietary_codecs=1'

    'ffmpeg_branding=Chrome'

    'dcheck_always_on=1'

}

gclient runhooks

ninja -C out_${SDK_BOARD}/Debug -j8 chrome chrome_sandbox nacl_helper

deploy_chrome --build-dir=out_${SDK_BOARD}/Debug --nostrip --to=10.138.134.90 --target-dir=/home/chrome

I was facing "not enough free space" error, hence I am using --target-dir. I hope that should be fine.

However, I am still not able to see mp3 or h.264 support on running https://html5test.com/

I am not sure if my GYP_DEFINES flags are being applied correctly. Is there any way to check the final list of GYP_DEFINES flags with which the image was built?

Regards,

Sumit

[Naveen]

Hi Sumit,

On which OS you are performing this operation. Windows or Linux?

If it is windows please follow this 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cefsharp/GYP_DEFINES%7Csort:relevance/cefsharp/BJLMXl9c204/HMJlp8mZzF0J

It will use around 25 GB of your memory. It took around 8 Hr for me to build this on i7, 8GB RAM. 

It is successful for me. I have integrated Chromium with mp3 support in my WPF application. 

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[Sumit Agrawal]

Hi Naveen,

I am building chromium for chromium OS.

I have a feeling that it's a formatting issue in include.gypi

Regards,

Sumit

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 at 10:55 Sumit Agrawal <sumi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Naveen,

I am building chromium for chromium OS.

I have a feeling that it's a formatting issue in include.gypi

Not a formatting issue, but your include.gypi is indeed not valid.

 

Regards,

Sumit

On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 3:17:52 PM UTC+5:30, Naveen Kumar Chittipolu wrote:

Hi Sumit,

On which OS you are performing this operation. Windows or Linux?

If it is windows please follow this 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cefsharp/GYP_DEFINES%7Csort:relevance/cefsharp/BJLMXl9c204/HMJlp8mZzF0J

It will use around 25 GB of your memory. It took around 8 Hr for me to build this on i7, 8GB RAM. 

It is successful for me. I have integrated Chromium with mp3 support in my WPF application. 

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Sumit Agrawal <sumi...@gmail.com> wrote:

As I understand from the available documentation, enabling proprietary codecs should be fairly simple.

I have created ~/.gyp/include.gypi with contents as below (xxx is placeholder)

{

'variables': {

    'google_api_key':               'xxx',

    'google_default_client_id':     'xxx',

    'google_default_client_secret': 'xxx',

  },

  'GYP_DEFINES':

    'proprietary_codecs=1'

    'ffmpeg_branding=Chrome'

    'dcheck_always_on=1'

}

 

GYP_DEFINES is the name of an environment variable. If you want to set these variables in a gypi file you should just add them to the variables block you already have.

[Sumit Agrawal]

Thanks, I'll put them in the variables block and try again.

I had copied this GYP_DEFINES block from the web somewhere, not able to find it now.

[Sumit Agrawal]

I still have one question though.

Is there any build log or something that I can look up to confirm whether the flags have been applied correctly?

[Steven Miller]

I have never had any luck putting those gyp_defines in my include,gypi. Once your in the shell 'cros chrome-sdk', add the flags with export GYP_DEFINES="${GYP_DEFINES} foo=bar" then run gclient runhooks. If you echo $GYP_DEFINES once in the shell, you'll see if your flags have been picked up.

Steven

Steve Miller

[Sumit Agrawal]

Hi Steven,

Exporting those GYP_DEFINES in cros shell works for me too.

Sumit

[Sumit Agrawal]

I found the link, from where I had found the syntax for GYP_DEFINES in include.gypi

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/CommonBuildTasks#Configuring_the_Build

{
'variables': {
'mac_strip_release': 0,
},
'GYP_DEFINES':
'clang=1 '
'component=shared_library '
'dcheck_always_on=1 '
}

[Sumit Agrawal]

FYI.

I was able to enable proprietary codecs, by setting the flags correctly in GYP_DEFINES block itself.

I modified chromium.gyp_env as mentioned in this link

https://www.chromium.org/developers/gyp-environment-variables