Public bug reported: On Yakkety, the updated Chromium 55 package doesn't play back H264 videos anymore.
For example, using this test page: http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html the H264/MP4 video shows the player disabled, while WebM and Ogg/Theora work fine. I have the following packages installed: ii chromium-browser 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328 amd64 Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome ii chromium-browser-l10n 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328 all chromium-browser language packages ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328 amd64 Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser ** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: yakkety -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1650990 Title: Chromium 55 not playing H264 videos Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On Yakkety, the updated Chromium 55 package doesn't play back H264 videos anymore. For example, using this test page: http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html the H264/MP4 video shows the player disabled, while WebM and Ogg/Theora work fine. I have the following packages installed: ii chromium-browser 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328 amd64 Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome ii chromium-browser-l10n 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328 all chromium-browser language packages ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328 amd64 Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1650990/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
