Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Schmitz
Hi Petric, as far as I know the VLC browser plugin allows you to play back media using VLC. However in my opinion you don't need that. Firefox has its own playback backend and hence it can play back media without the VLC plugin. So I think you shouldn't run into any issues if you don't use

[gentoo-user] Removal of media-plugins/npapi-vlc

2018-01-30 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, during an upgrade i got a message that media-plugins/npapi-vlc have been masked and being removed from portage. The reasoning is understandable (Firefox removes NPAPI interface). But what to use instead ? kind regards Petric