Livecode's CEF Builds

[Mark Waddingham]

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.

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> On 9 Sep 2018, at 18:04, Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at 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
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