[Feature]: Due to Licensing Issues related to several CODECS, I need to be able to choose which CODECS will be installed.

[mveck]

Describe the feature/enhancement you need

Due to Licensing restrictions I don't want to install H264 CODEC but still want to use Webview.
Current redistributions don't allow me to do this, Building from source is also far fetched.

The scenario/use case where you would use this feature

We would like to use the redistribution in a commercial product. H264 codec is not suitable for this, but we absolutely don't need this codec for our purpose. Now we need to do reengineering of the solution which is a farfetched solution.

How important is this request to you?

Impactful. My app's user experience would be significantly compromised without it.

Suggested implementation

I would like to suggest that the installers allow a choice to install or not to install codecs. Codecs which are not absolutely needed should be avoided.

What does your app do? Is there a pending deadline for this request?

This is new development, but we would like to have an answer to this request soon. Looking into alternative solutions does take considerable time.

[Danielx64]

Hmm why don't you just use what's already installed on the end users PC?

I'm sure there's plenty of software that uses webview2 unless I'm missing something.

[mveck]

Good Question Daniel, we are responsible for all of that. This is in order to use webview in a product. For all software (except H264) this is ok. User of our products are not able to install any software, so we cannot point them to a website. Distribution of H264 gives issues, so we would rather get rid of it. Op ma 29 jan. 2024 11:46 schreef Danielx64 ***@***.***>:

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[Danielx64]

So what happens with a window 11 device (and recent version of 10) where webview2 is installed by default?

Maybe someone else gets it - I feel like I'm missing something.

[mveck]

Hi Daniel, agree, but in our products we are using the IoT Long Time Support Channels of Windows. In these builds we need to bundle this. Op ma 29 jan. 2024 20:33 schreef Danielx64 ***@***.***>:

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