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From: Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] >=www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:43:22
Message-Id: 4C6AF448.1070503@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] >=www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264 by Nganon
1 On 08/17/2010 10:58 AM, Nganon wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@×××××.com
5 > <mailto:drukargin@×××××.com>> wrote:
6 >
7 > Thanks for the info. That doesn't entirely answer my question,
8 > though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support?
9 > Google's youtube.com/html5 <http://youtube.com/html5> page
10 > suggests that Chrome (and thus chromium?) supports h264. Is this
11 > a licensing issue going to the open source build that I've not
12 > heard of yet?
13 >
14 >
15 > Yes bundled ffmpeg should have h264 support but I think it as broken
16 > with
17 > a patch for ubuntu.
18 >
19 > Did you read the bug report on crbug? It is reported for 479 and marked
20 > as *fixed* in the trunk as of Aug 9th. I didnt read the release note
21 > of it but
22 > 490 was released on 13th and is in portage since then. So..you can
23 > either unmask it and give it a try or wait for the next release and
24 > keep an
25 > eye on the release notes.
26
27 I have tried 490, and it has the same problem: html5test.com reports no
28 h264 support, and non-webm, html5 youtube videos don't work.
29
30 I'll continue trying successive builds as they're posted... maybe 490
31 doesn't have that commit yet?
32
33 -Andy

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Re: [gentoo-user] >=www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264 Nganon <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com>