FS#75012 - firefox openh264 (out of date)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Felix Meyer (fm) - Thursday, 09 June 2022, 17:33 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Sunday, 19 June 2022, 09:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
firefox and firefox-developer-edition downloads old Version of openh264

ls .mozilla/firefox/sonuqxe0.dev-edition-default/gmp-gmpopenh264/1.8.1.1/
Version 1.8.1.1

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openh264
Version 2.2.0

Additional info:
* package version(s)
community/firefox-developer-edition 102.0b4-1
extra/firefox 101.0-1


Fedora offers an optional package to install the openh264 codec. They added a patch and a few preferences to firefox.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox/tree/rawhide
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Sunday, 19 June 2022, 09:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Thursday, 09 June 2022, 18:22 GMT
Please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619988
Comment by Michel Koss (MichelKoss1) - Thursday, 09 June 2022, 19:27 GMT
This isn't related to Arch packaging of firefox. The internal firefox openh264 codec is only used for video calls.
Comment by Felix Meyer (fm) - Thursday, 09 June 2022, 19:36 GMT
close it.

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