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From: Rasmus Thomsen <Rasmus.thomsen@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Imdb videos won't play in Chromium
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 15:51:42
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In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Imdb videos won't play in Chromium by Alexander Kapshuk
1 Hi,
2
3 Does chromium even recognize flash? Go to chrome://flash, it should display the current flash version under "Flash Plugin".
4 About the YouTube thing:
5 Are you sure that it doesn't use its HTML5 player? You can to go youtube.com/html5 to check that.
6
7 Regards,
8 Rasmus
9
10 -------- Original Message --------
11 On 4 Jun 2017, 07:17, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
12 With these installed:
13 equery -q l chromium adobe-flash
14 www-client/chromium-58.0.3029.110
15 www-plugins/adobe-flash-25.0.0.171
16
17 Imdb.com videos won't play any more. I get a 'sorry, this video is
18 unsupported on this browser' message displayed.
19
20 A friend of mine has the same version of chromium installed with no
21 adobe-flash installed on Arch Linux and he is able to play imdb
22 videos.
23
24 I've Googled it, but so far have not been able to find a solution to this.
25
26 Clearing browsing data didn't help either.
27
28 Youtube videos play OK though.
29
30 Anyone else has had the same trouble and been able to fix it?
31
32 Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Imdb videos won't play in Chromium Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>