[Trisquel-devel] WebM in Trisquel 4.0

[Steven McDonald]

Hello,

I posted this a few days ago on the Trisquel Users forum, but thought it 
might be better suited here. I wonder if it might be feasible to get 
WebM support from the Firefox development branch into ABrowser? I'm 
aware that it's fairly close to release, but Trisquel 4.0 will be a LTS 
release and I think that being one of the first distros (perhaps the 
first) with out-of-the-box support for YouTube that doesn't depend on 
non-free software (e.g., Flash) would be a great thing to have on the 
side of free software.

I tried to merge the patches listed at 
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2010/05/20/building-firefox-with-webm-support.html 
into the ABrowser sources, which resulted in compiler errors, a result I 
had expected since I've never worked with patches before and I know that 
patches on the development sources probably won't work in earlier 
versions. I had to copy the content/media directory from mozilla-central 
into ABrowser to even get the patches to apply successfully. I knew it 
was likely to cause problems, but I wanted to try anyway.

I just thought I might suggest this issue to this mailing list, where 
people are probably better aware of whether or not it can be done. If it 
is feasible, I will be glad to help with whatever I can, although I am 
still a relatively inexperienced coder.

More information about WebM: http://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/

Thanks for all the work on Trisquel, I'll be installing it as soon as I 
buy a replacement wireless card.
Steven McDonald