[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 147822] [GTK][GStreamer] Install missing media plugins API is totally broken, test /webkit2/WebKitWebView/install-missing-plugins-permission-request times out in the bots

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Fri Feb 9 09:39:20 PST 2018


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147822

--- Comment #25 from Philippe Normand <pnormand at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #24)
> (In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #23)
> > And what if the user had no VPX codec installed? 
> 
> The desired behavior would be to run the missing codec installer if and only
> if no suitable codecs to play the video are installed.
> 
> > You can't work around the codec installer. I already suggested a solution in
> > comment 10. Please read it again.
> 
> If that's the best we can do, then OK. It'll be fine so long as the decision
> about refusing H264 is stored somewhere on disk, so the prompt only occurs
> once per missing codec, and not again and again. Where would you store it,
> and will that be the responsibility of WebKit or Epiphany?

WebKit could notify the app with a signal that the required codec installation was denied and Epiphany could store the result in a cache file perhaps.

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