On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <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 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.
