Subject: Re: [bug#38670] [PATCH] Fix audio/video in icecat

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 23:49:08 +0100

Hi Julien,

Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]> skribis:

> since the update to icecat 68, mpeg decoding doesn't work in IceCat
> (mp3/mp4 would not play, breaking a lot of online media players). This
> patch addresses that issue, that was caused by IceCat not finding
> ffmpeg's library. It was dlopening libavcodec.so, but could not find
> it. I replaced it with an absolute reference to the library in the
> store, which now allows IceCat to load the library at runtime. It also
> adds ffmpeg to icecat's closure, ensuring it will always find it.

Great that you found out!

>>>From c144cf973235d2e633daeeedbac45fcf61da04a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:02:34 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Fix linking with ffmpeg.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat): Use absolute path for ffmpeg
> library loading.

LGTM!  (Cc’ing Mark for a heads-up.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.