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Bug#956086: obs-studio: Please build the obs-browser plugin somehow



Control: found -1 25.0.3+dfsg-1
Control: notfound -1 25.0.3-0-g3c78a8aa-1
Control: block -1 by 915400

On 2020-04-07 00:58:49 -0400, Christian Weeks wrote:
> Package: obs-studio
> Version: 25.0.3-0-g3c78a8aa-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> OBS 25 supports the obs-browser plugin. Sadly, this is not an independently buildable module, and needs to
> be built as part of building the rest of OBS. I have had some conversations with the developers on this 
> on the OBS discord and they confirmed this is by design and won't change. It is designed to be linked into
> the source tree at OBS build time and built that way. It is separated for development reasons only.
> 
> The legacy obs-linux-browser plugin has retired in favour of the official plugin.
> 
> Therefore, at present, I have to build my own packages of OBS to use the browser plugin. Many new features
> of OBS are likely to be dependent on the OBS browser plugin in future (as is already seen in the Windows
> version).
> 
> I realize this feature relies on the Chrome Embedded Framework to work, so it may be challenging? Is there
> debian policy on CEF? It seems many "browsery" features of other products use this strategy these days
> rather than deal with the hideous mess that is modern browser standards.

This is currently blocked by 915400.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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