547800 – www-client/chromium-43.0.2357.18 fails to play youtube videos and some WebM

Bug 547800 - www-client/chromium-43.0.2357.18 fails to play youtube videos and some WebM

Summary: www-client/chromium-43.0.2357.18 fails to play youtube videos and some WebM

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Chromium Project

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Reported:	2015-04-26 12:40 UTC by miflab
Modified:	2015-05-20 20:14 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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emerge --info (file_547800.txt,4.95 KB, text/plain) 2015-04-26 12:40 UTC, miflab	Details
emerge -pv chromium (file_547800.txt,604 bytes, text/plain) 2015-04-26 12:42 UTC, miflab	Details
emerge -pv ffmpeg (file_547800.txt,1.09 KB, text/plain) 2015-04-26 12:42 UTC, miflab	Details
chromium --log-level=0 -enable-logging=stderr (file_547800.txt,101 bytes, text/plain) 2015-04-26 12:43 UTC, miflab	Details
Fonts with USE="proprietary-codecs" (51.png,14.90 KB, image/png) 2015-05-18 08:43 UTC, miflab	Details
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Description miflab 2015-04-26 12:40:33 UTC

Created attachment 402030 [details]
emerge --info

Latest ~arch chromium can't play any HTML5 youtube videos and some WebM's.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/ for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRU2ShMzQRg
2. Click on Play

Actual Results:  
Message "an error occurred please try again later"

Expected Results:  
Video should play

Comment 1 miflab 2015-04-26 12:42:03 UTC

Created attachment 402032 [details]
emerge -pv chromium

Comment 2 miflab 2015-04-26 12:42:41 UTC

Created attachment 402034 [details]
emerge -pv ffmpeg

Comment 3 miflab 2015-04-26 12:43:31 UTC

Created attachment 402038 [details]
chromium --log-level=0 -enable-logging=stderr

Comment 4 miflab 2015-04-26 13:00:15 UTC

Some additional links:
http://medias.jilion.com/sublimevideo/dartmoor.mp4 - just not play
http://medias.jilion.com/sublimevideo/dartmoor.ogv - play fine

Comment 5 Ralf 2015-04-27 13:48:04 UTC

I can reproduce the same bug. It's also reproducible with www-client/chromium-44.0.2376.0.

Comment 6 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-05-06 20:03:22 UTC

Does enabling USE="proprietary-codecs" fix this for you?

Comment 7 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2015-05-06 20:11:53 UTC

(In reply to Paweł Hajdan, Jr. from comment #6)
> Does enabling USE="proprietary-codecs" fix this for you?

On that topic, I personally think it would be nicer to enable this by default. I may be projecting my own views, but I think very few people want a "patent-safe" browser at the cost of usable HTML5 video.

Comment 8 miflab 2015-05-18 07:45:04 UTC

(In reply to Paweł Hajdan, Jr. from comment #6)
> Does enabling USE="proprietary-codecs" fix this for you?

Yep, I rebuild www-client/chromium-43.0.2357.65 with USE="proprietary-codecs" and this fix this issue for me.

Comment 9 miflab 2015-05-18 08:27:20 UTC

But this makes fonts awful...

Comment 10 miflab 2015-05-18 08:43:14 UTC

Created attachment 403524 [details]
Fonts with USE="proprietary-codecs"

Rollback to USE="-proprietary-codecs"

Comment 11 miflab 2015-05-19 12:56:54 UTC

Fonts breaking seems like unstable chromium bug.
Downgrade to stable version from portage tree (42.0.2311.135) fix fonts and youtube videos!

Comment 12 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-05-20 20:14:29 UTC

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #7)
> On that topic, I personally think it would be nicer to enable this by
> default. I may be projecting my own views, but I think very few people want
> a "patent-safe" browser at the cost of usable HTML5 video.

Alright, changed the default:

  20 May 2015; Pawel Hajdan jr
  chromium-43.0.2357.65.ebuild, chromium-44.0.2403.4.ebuild:
  Enable USE="proprietary-codecs" by default, bug #547800 by miflab.