On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson <drukar...@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
