Bug 784555

Summary: Are current codecs legally unencumbered?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: vvs <vvs009>
Component: totemAssignee: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description vvs 2012-01-25 11:02:34 UTC 
Description of problem:



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

totem-mozplugin-3.2.1-2.fc16.i686

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. type about:plugins
  
Actual results:

Among others:

video/x-msvideo 	AVI video 	asf, wmv
video/divx 	AVI video 	divx
video/mpeg 	MPEG video 	mpg, mpeg, mpe
audio/mpeg 	MP3 audio 	mp3
video/flv 	Flash video 	flv
video/quicktime 	QuickTime video 	mov
video/mp4 	MPEG-4 video 	mp4
video/x-m4v 	MPEG-4 video 	m4v

Expected results:

Should be this output expected according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items ? Or did something changed? And it really decode all that stuff if you try youtube for example. Just don't forget to disable all other relevant plugins (e.g. flashplayer).

Additional info:

This affects F15 too.
Comment 1 vvs 2012-01-25 11:55:42 UTC 
Guess that I was wrong about youtube. It was actually WebM/Vorbis codec, but wasn't easy to verify. Still if these codecs are really not there why it is reported as if they are?
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2012-01-26 16:15:57 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Guess that I was wrong about youtube. It was actually WebM/Vorbis codec, but
> wasn't easy to verify. Still if these codecs are really not there why it is
> reported as if they are?

Because the NPAPI plugin API doesn't allow for finer-grained advertisement of features, and mime-types are especially badly designed to advertise video and audio codecs, as they only represent the containers.