qutebrowser @2.5.2: Support of Quartz/X11, proprietary codecs

[deividaspetraitis (Deividas Petraitis)]

Currently qutebrowser builds as a native MacOS application. I was wondering how difficult/possible it would be to add an option to build it for X11/Quartz so it can be possible to manage it under i3wm.

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Not all video content is working properly, because of the following error, because qt-webengine is not built with proprietary codecs:

[1:20:0324/202035.328025:ERROR:render_media_log.cc(27)] MediaEvent: MEDIA_ERROR_LOG_ENTRY {"error":"FFmpegDemuxer: no supported streams"}
[1:1:0324/202035.329248:ERROR:render_media_log.cc(27)] MediaEvent: PIPELINE_ERROR DEMUXER_ERROR_NO_SUPPORTED_STREAMS

I was wondering how difficult/possible to be provide an option ( or enable by default ) building with proprietary codecs.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

As far as I know there is no support for building any qt5-based ports in MacPorts for X11. There was such support for some of the qt4-based ports, using the qt4-x11 port instead of the qt4-mac port, but qt4-x11 was deleted in [4a4c1313f89fdffe49e7ed37b238df7db954389b/macports-ports].

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

When you say "Quartz" I assume you mean ​XQuartz (an X11 distribution for macOS). ​Quartz is the macOS graphics layer, so all software that uses macOS graphics routines, such as all qt5-based software in macOS, necessarily uses Quartz.

[deividaspetraitis (Deividas Petraitis)]

Sorry for delayed reply and thank you for your feedback! That is right, idea was to run qutebrowser under X11 as for example xterm. I was wondering, is there any hope for qt6?