On 08/17/2010 10:58 AM, Nganon wrote: > > > On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <drukar...@gmail.com > <mailto:drukar...@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 <http://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
