I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and
later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg,
and seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5
video at youtube; it will never load).



I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg,
which does not fix h264 video and causes crashes on webm videos:
probably why we went back to the bundled ffmpeg.



Has anyone else noticed this?* Is there a straightforward
work-around beyond going back to 6.0.472.14ish?



Thanks,



-Andy

On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com> wrote:









I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and
later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg,
and seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5
video at youtube; it will never load).



I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg,
which does not fix h264 video and causes crashes on webm videos:
probably why we went back to the bundled ffmpeg.



Has anyone else noticed this?� Is there a straightforward
work-around beyond going back to 6.0.472.14ish?



Thanks,



-Andy





Using system-ffmpeg is commented as TODO in the ebuild refering to [1].�There is also bug report[2] related to this. Seems like it maybe fixed in a never branch than 472.


[1]�http://crbug.com/50678[2]�http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329641

On 08/17/2010 04:54 AM, Nganon wrote:




On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com>
wrote:


I've
noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than
6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and
seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm,
html5 video at youtube; it will never load).



I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided
ffmpeg, which does not fix h264 video and causes crashes
on webm videos: probably why we went back to the bundled
ffmpeg.



Has anyone else noticed this?* Is there a straightforward
work-around beyond going back to 6.0.472.14ish?



Thanks,



-Andy







Using system-ffmpeg is commented as TODO in the ebuild refering to
[1].*
There is also bug report[2] related to this. Seems like it
maybe fixed in a never branch than 472.



[1]*http://crbug.com/50678

[2]*http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329641




Thanks for the info.* That doesn't entirely answer my question,
though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support?*
Google's youtube.com/html5 page suggests that Chrome (and thus
chromium?) supports h264.* Is this a licensing issue going to the
open source build that I've not heard of yet?



Thanks again,



-Andy

On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com> wrote:


Thanks for the info.* That doesn't entirely answer my question,
though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support?*
Google's youtube.com/html5 page suggests that Chrome (and thus
chromium?) supports h264.* Is this a licensing issue going to the
open source build that I've not heard of yet?

Yes bundled ffmpeg should have h264 support but I think it as broken with*a patch for ubuntu.*
Did you read the bug report on crbug? It is reported for 479 and marked*

as *fixed* in the trunk as of Aug 9th. *I didnt read the release note of it but*490 was released on 13th and is in portage since then.*So..you can*either unmask it and give it a try or wait for the next release and keep an*

eye on the release notes.

On 08/17/2010 10:58 AM, Nganon wrote:




On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com>
wrote:


Thanks for the info.*
That doesn't entirely answer my question, though...
shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support?*
Google's youtube.com/html5
page suggests that Chrome (and thus chromium?) supports
h264.* Is this a licensing issue going to the open source
build that I've not heard of yet?






Yes bundled ffmpeg should have h264 support but I think it as
broken with*
a patch for ubuntu.*


Did you read the bug report on crbug? It is reported for
479 and marked*

as *fixed* in the trunk as of Aug 9th. *I didnt read the
release note of it but*
490 was released on 13th and is in portage since
then.*So..you can*
either unmask it and give it a try or wait for the next
release and keep an*
eye on the release notes.





I have tried 490, and it has the same problem: html5test.com reports
no h264 support, and non-webm, html5 youtube videos don't work.



I'll continue trying successive builds as they're posted... maybe
490 doesn't have that commit yet?



-Andy

On 17 August 2010 23:42, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com> wrote:


I have tried 490, and it has the same problem: html5test.com reports
no h264 support, and non-webm, html5 youtube videos don't work.



I'll continue trying successive builds as they're posted... maybe
490 doesn't have that commit yet?
Maybe not. I suggest poke around crbug.com and also keep an eye on the release blog.*http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/