Chromium Codecs Problem...

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/10/17 Hiisi <very-cool at rambler.ru>

> 2010/10/16 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>:
> > Hi! as many of you may know, Chromium is having problems
> > inside fedora with youtube's HTML 5 Video, see, when I want to
> > play a HTML 5 Video in youtube, this message comes out:
> > "Your browser does not correctly recognize any of the video formats
> > available"
> > in ubuntu-debian based distros the problem gets solved by installing the
> > "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree" package, but this one is not available
> in
> > fedora, at least not with that name.
> > ¿Can someone tell me the name of this package in Fedora 13?
> > Thanks!
> > Oh! and if you want to reproduce the problem inside your chromium
> browser,
> > just
> > try to open this video:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdykNa2IBU
> > If you open it in Firefox it will play, but not inside C:
> romium.
> <--SNIP-->
>
> Hello!
> First of all, I was surprised by the ability of html5 video support in
> google chrome while it is absent in FireFox. I run
> FireFox-3.5.12-1.fc12.i686. However this page [1] states
> that~\cite{Firefox 3.5 introduced support for the HTML 5 <audio>  and
> <video>  elements, offering the ability to easily embed media into
> HTML documents.} But I'm unable to play html5 video on YouTube using
> FireFox :-(
> Second, I even didn't know there's a possibility of switching to html5
> format on YouTube [2]! Probably I have to read docs a bit more [3]!
> And the last, but not the least. I have no such problem with google
> chrome (google-chrome-stable-6.0.472.63-59945.i386, installed form
> google repo). I also have this package installed:
> gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.10-1.fc12.1.i686
> Hope that helps!
> P.S. The video you've posted is a bit provocative! I was really
> annoyed with this bullshit micro$oft promotional.
> _________________
> R E F E R E N C E S
> 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_audio_and_video_in_Firefox
> 2. http://www.youtube.com/html5
> 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#YouTube_and_WebM_support
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@Ankur: Yes, I'm getting Chromium from the Spot repo

@Hiisi: Firefox 3.6 is fully compatible with HTML5. In my case
is Chromium the Browser that is not working. Chrome works well too.

Oh! and the video is a crap I know,

Cheers

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