So I just discovered that proprietary media (H.264, AAC, etc.) was not working with the Snap version of @npub19rt0...adh9 on Linux—I mean .snap packages, not Snapshots. I found this out as I attempted to use the Snap version to play a video and it failed. I am on vacation at the moment and not really monitoring our forums or bug tracker right now. I addition I do not usually use the Snap at home personally, so this was just by chance. 😱 On investigating, it seems that on 2024-12-17T13:39:10.926512+00:00 (last Tuesday) the "chromium-ffmpeg" snap package that we use to provide support for proprietary media was updated by Canonical and version 115541 (which we were still using) was removed entirely. Since I can update things myself and most of my colleagues are likely asleep I have now switched the Vivaldi 7.0 Snap to use "chromium-ffmpeg-118887" (which Canonical offer now) and released this live as of 2024-12-23T00:03:01.156148+00:00. That seems to have resolved it for me. If anyone is using the Snap version of Vivaldi, could you also confirm (after a Snap refresh and a restart of the browser) that it works for you also. There is a test video (with sound) here for you to check against:

Vivaldi Browser Help

HTML5 Proprietary Media | Linux | Vivaldi Browser Help

HTML5 “proprietary” audio and video includes all media types that are patented, such H.264 (video) and AAC (audio). Find out how to install &#0...

#Snapcraft

For you Vivaldi users using Flathub who are wondering where the 7.0.3495.26 update is. I made the changes on a branch 3 hours back but I cannot make things live without a test build created by Flathub and there is quite a backlog on Flathub's buildbot instance right now. It looks like there was a massive rebuild of KDE packages. So again, the lack of update is not a reflection on how much I care about Flatpak, it is just delays inherent in the system used to roll out.

Yep, that seems like a legit picture from @npub19rt0...adh9 offices. #Unicycle

These things always amuse the shit out of me