Short story: oneiric comes with --as-needed by default, so -lvpx was silently dropped from libffmpegsumo.so, resulting in no support for the HTML5 <video> tag in the browser.
Long story: --as-needed was introduced to reduce the number of dependencies of packages. This is a change which happened in other distros (Debian, Fedora, Suse) and should have happened in Natty but was dropped at the last minute. Some packages are not impacted, but a long list are, including chromium. It's properly described here: http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/795171 Title: <video> tag broken in oneiric only due to --as-needed in the toolchain To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/795171/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
