On Wed, 18 May 2016 16:40:14 -0700, Callum Prentice (Callum) wrote:

> Digesting all the suggestions here - thank you.
> 
> Intrigued by Nicky's suggestion, I am currently trying to build CEF
> directly via Chromium - first attempt is without the extra flags
> (proprietary_codecs=1 ffmpeg_branding=Chrome).  Building the branch in use
> in the viewer failed with a bunch of errors - fixable but there were just
> too many. Still not sure *why* it fails - I would expect specifying a
> branch would chckout and build a tagged point in the repo that built.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Chrome/CEF... It's indeed surprising to
see how badly they screwed up the build system and what totally insane
amounts of time (hours !) and efforts (manual patching) are required to
build their browser (when Firefox builds flawlessly in under 20 minutes)...

> Do people agree that this would be the best solution?

Definitely NOT !

Please, see my prevous messages in this list (the last posted a few
minutes ago).

Please, pretty please, don't do that !!!

Regards,

Henri.
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