Bug 2131218 - In Firefox | version of GMP openh264 reported as "system-installed"
Summary: In Firefox | version of GMP openh264 reported as "system-installed"
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openh264
Version: 38
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kalev Lember
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-09-30 10:30 UTC by ricky.tigg
Modified: 2023-08-02 08:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Github cisco openh264 issues 3580#issuecomment-1262681505 0 None open In Firefox | version of GMP openh264 reported as "system-installed" 2022-09-30 10:30:30 UTC
Mozilla Foundation 1619988 0 P3 NEW Update OpenH264 to 2.3.1 2022-09-30 11:50:38 UTC
Mozilla Foundation 1663844 0 P5 NEW Allow using OpenH264 GMP decoder as fallback for video decoding (Mozilla could take Fedora's downstream fix: https://src... 2022-09-30 11:50:38 UTC

Description ricky.tigg 2022-09-30 10:30:30 UTC
Description of problem: In Firefox session, in pages about:plugins and about:addons the version of GMP openh264 is reported as "system-installed" instead of a numbered version, currently 2.3.0.

$ dnf --installed list *openh264 | sed 1d
gstreamer1-plugin-openh264.x86_64      1.20.3-1.fc37      @fedora-cisco-openh264
mozilla-openh264.x86_64                2.3.0-1.fc37       @fedora-cisco-openh264
openh264.x86_64                        2.3.0-1.fc37       @fedora-cisco-openh264

How reproducible: in page about:plugins, while component mozilla-openh264 is

- installed:
File: system-installed
Path: /home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/(...).default-release/gmp-gmpopenh264/system-installed
Version: system-installed

- not installed:
File: {$pluginLibraries}
Path: {$pluginFullPath}
Version: {$version}

Comment 1 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-07-24 09:36:28 UTC
Still present on F38.

Comment 2 Kalev Lember 2023-07-24 10:27:44 UTC
Martin, do you have any ideas here? Is firefox using the file name from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/gmp-gmpopenh264/system-installed/gmpopenh264.info as the version identifier? The .info file has 'Version: 2.3.1' but that doesn't appear to be used here.

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2023-08-02 08:05:19 UTC
Frankly I have no idea. Perhaps system installed pluing needs extra patching in Firefox?


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