[oe] [meta-browser] chromium libffmpeg

Wed Nov 4 02:13:33 UTC 2015

> On Nov 3, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Ian Coolidge <ian at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> 
> It looks like it is statically set within the code in the function
> InitializeMediaLibrary(module_dir)
> 
> Doing a `grep -r -B 5 -A 5 "initializeMediaLibrary" *` of the chromium code
> shows a few places looking in DIR_EXE for the library instead of DIR_MODULE.
> 
> In particular, I see webmediaplayer_factory.cc initializing the media
> library and looking in DIR_EXE. Is this what would play videos from an html
> <video> tag?
> 
> I'm finding chromium looking in DIR_EXE for libffmpegsumo.so when chromium
> is launched with this script:

for tests can you put library in  /usr/lib/chromium-browser and see if it finds it

> 
> #!/bin/sh
>> export DISPLAY=:0
>> export HOME=/tmp/chromium
>> export GOOGLE_API_KEY=ZZZZ
>> export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID=XXXX
>> export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET=YYYY
>> export CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX=/usr/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox
>> export CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS=" \
>>        --user-data-dir=/tmp/chromium \
>>        --data-path=/tmp/chromium \
>>        --disk-cache-dir=/tmp/chromium \
>>        --disk-cache-size=16777216 \
>>        --use-gl=egl \
>>        --gpu-no-context-lost \
>>        --start-fullscreen \
>>        --enable-logging=stderr \
>>        --no-first-run \
>>        --disable-touch-drag-drop \
>>        --enable-file-cookies \
>> "
>> /usr/bin/chromium/chrome ${CHROME_EXTRA_ARGS} $@
> 
> 
> and with this simple vid.html as the page source:
> 
> <html>
>> <div id="showvideo" style="display: none">
>>          <video id="myVideo" height="240" autoplay loop>
>>               <source src="/app/test.mp4" type="video/mp4">
>>          </video>
>> </div>
>> </html>
>> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> Thanks!
> -Ian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Ian Coolidge <ian at boundarydevices.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> In the chromium recipe, there is a package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg which
>>> puts libffmpegsumo.so in /usr/lib/chromium/. However, it only seems to
>> work
>>> when placed in /usr/bin/chromium/.
>>> 
>>> Is there a flag I can pass to chromium to look in /usr/lib/chromium/ for
>>> that library? What step am I missing here?
>>> 
>> 
>> can you check the chromium script and see if it needs the lib path to be
>> specified there ?
>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Ian Coolidge
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