HTML5 Video Support in Chrome

[Thelasko]

I've been playing around with Google's new HTML5 version of You Tube with the daily build of Chromium. Unfortunately, I keep getting a message that says, "Your browser does not recognize any of the video formats available." I've noticed a package called, "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree" in the PPA, but that didn't fix anything. Has anyone been able to get this to work?

[Zorael]

No luck here. The Chromium issue entry regarding this suggests that we need to separately install ffmpeg, which I have - but to no success. I tried making symlinks to the libraries mentioned, into /usr/lib/chromium-browser, but that didn't help.

I haven't tried recompiling it myself yet (I'm using the ppa as well.) And FWIW, I'm on a 32-bit installation.

[themgt]

You need to install libavcodec-extra-52. It's working for me now.

[themgt]

Oops, no it's not. Bugger. It slipped in a flash one to confuse me.

[nortexoid]

Still no luck huh? Is it just a matter of installing the relevant codec pack?

[nortexoid]

After doing some searching, it appears that the reason linux Chromium won't support the format is due to licensing issues with h.264. Same with open source firefox.

[abrahamsmith]

After doing some searching, it appears that the reason linux Chromium won't support the format is due to licensing issues with h.264. Same with open source firefox.

Do you have a link to this reference?

If true, it seems like an odd decision, since the browser itself doesn't really have to do anything, it just has to pass the content onto a system backend (ffmpeg, gstreamer, whatever) that handles whatever media it can.

[nortexoid]

Do you have a link to this reference?

If true, it seems like an odd decision, since the browser itself doesn't really have to do anything, it just has to pass the content onto a system backend (ffmpeg, gstreamer, whatever) that handles whatever media it can.

Here's a thread: http://www.google.co.uk/support/foru...a7614546&hl=en

And there's a bunch others if you do a search for something like "youtube html5 "does not currently"".

[Thelasko]

After doing some searching, it appears that the reason linux Chromium won't support the format is due to licensing issues with h.264. Same with open source firefox.

There are two versions of ffmpeg available for Chromium. The default is free software only, but you can install the nonfree version as well.

I already have the nonfree version installed, and it hasn't helped.

[abrahamsmith]

Right. I have -nonfree installed, (and all of the medibuntu codecs, etc) and it still doesn't work. It's not clear to me what's actually happening here.