On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:31:34 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2016-04-16 10:20:26, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > control: tag -1 help, confirmed > > control: severity -1 grave > > x-debbugs-cc: pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > > Jose A. Fernandez Gonzalez wrote: > > > Version 49 of Chromium and earlier versions depend on ffmpeg libraries > > > (libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, ...) and it seems version 50 doesn't > > > depend on those libraries, maybe the problem comes out with HTML5 content > > > because of that. > > > > Chromium's linking of ffmpeg has somehow changed, so ffmpeg.patch will > > need to be updated, or the embedded copy of ffmpeg could be used > > again. > > > > I don't have much free time right now, so it may be some time before I > > get to this. Help is appreciated. > > With the attached patch chromium links against ffmpeg at least. Other than > that > it's untested. > > Regards > -- > Sebastian Ramacher
It occurred to me to try to rebuild the package locally, unmodified. I built it with pbuilder against sid. ldd doesn't show it linking against system's ffmpeg. Video now works fine without crashing. Going to try this patch now.
