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
Created attachment 402032 [details] emerge -pv chromium
Created attachment 402034 [details] emerge -pv ffmpeg
Created attachment 402038 [details] chromium --log-level=0 -enable-logging=stderr
Some additional links: http://medias.jilion.com/sublimevideo/dartmoor.mp4 - just not play http://medias.jilion.com/sublimevideo/dartmoor.ogv - play fine
I can reproduce the same bug. It's also reproducible with www-client/chromium-44.0.2376.0.
Does enabling USE="proprietary-codecs" fix this for you?
(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.
(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.
But this makes fonts awful...
Created attachment 403524 [details] Fonts with USE="proprietary-codecs" Rollback to USE="-proprietary-codecs"
Fonts breaking seems like unstable chromium bug. Downgrade to stable version from portage tree (42.0.2311.135) fix fonts and youtube videos!
(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.