On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Albert J. Wong (王重傑) <ajw...@chromium.org>wrote:
> We just noticed that the Chromium Helper.app cannot locate the ffmpeg > binaries (libav*.dylib) in Mac Chromium. This leads to the video feature > being disabled. :( > Where should the ffmpeg binaries go? Should they be put alongside the > binary in the Chromium Helper.app/Contents/MacOS? If we do this, I think it > will break --single-process mode unless we keep a copy of the binary in both > spots (which is ugly). > If it helps, I believe --single-process is disabled for Google Chrome builds -- maybe a non issue and simply an inconvenience to us working on Mac <video>? > > Is there a shared location that both application bundles will be able to > search for the ffmpeg binaries? > > -Albert > > > P.S. The reason this wasn't noticed earlier is that all the video devs have > been executing the app either by setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in their > environment manually, or via Xcode -- which sets DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to > include the output directory, again allowing for resolution of the ffmpeg > binaries. Using --single-process also avoids this issue since it doesn't > use Chromium Helper. *sigh* > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---