H264 is patent encumbered - in order to distribute software containing an implementation you need to license the MPEG-LA patent pool.
That's why you won't find any public CEF prebuilts with the flag enabled. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Sep 2018, at 18:04, Tom Glod via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, I am wondering if any of you can shed light as to why the > Chrome Embedded Framework that Livecode uses cannot be built with the h264 > and MSE (and maybe other codecs?)....... is there no way to notify the user > of the license exception? ...... or does it even matter? .... because no > one is changing the code in the codec.? > > needless to say, the browser is needlessly restricted....in my view > anyways. youtube half works...vimeo doesn't...neither does netflix and God > knows what else. > > If its not a problem..can someone please put in the extra flags? > > http://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13515&start=30 > > THanks, > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
