---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: building chromium against system ffmpeg (was: Distros and QtWebEngine) Date: Saturday 25 April 2015, 17:41:19 From: Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> To: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com>
Hi Lisandro, I'm maintaining ffmpeg in Debian and just came across the thread about "Distros and QtWebEngine" on kde-core-devel, where you wrote [1]: > Actually when it comes to the web engine it's not true. When I suggested to > use an external ffmpeg and libv8 (javascript engine) the answer was directly > no, simply because they are too entangled to be possible. And ffmpeg tends to > be quite a source of CVEs... As I understand it QtWebEngine embeds chromium (horrible idea), which embeds ffmpeg (bad idea). I just want to point out that it is possible to build chromium against the system ffmpeg libraries, see bug #763632 [2]. (I did it and playing videos on youtube still worked, yay!) This is not yet done, because ffmpeg wasn't allowed into jessie [3]. As for ffmpeg being a source of CVEs: I'm working on fixing that. And by the way I doubt that gstreamer is any better security-wise, rather the contrary, because most fixes don't get backported. Best regards, Andreas 1: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=142959920525945&w=1 2: https://bugs.debian.org/763632 3: https://bugs.debian.org/763148 ----------------------------------------- -- If you realize that you are in a hole... stop digging. Anonimous, thanks to ScottK. Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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