YouTube, HTML5, and Chromium. Why the sudden malfunction?

[Ian Malone]

On 4 March 2012 09:39, Christopher Svanefalk
<christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last month, one of the most pleasant surprises I ran across was the fact
> that Google finally seemed to have defaulted to HTML5 for YouTube. Virtually
> every video I played (I cannot remember a single counterexample) was working
> fully in the HTML5 player. It was a real relief, since I really do not want
> to rely on Flash for my web experience.
>
> The last few weeks, however, something has changed drastically on this
> front. All of a sudden, the majority of videos are NOT playable. They only
> throw an "your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
> available" exception, and refuse to play.
>
> Does anyone know why this is? Are there any possible workarounds?
>
> I am running Chromium 19, built on Fedora 16.
>
>

Working for me, firefox-10.0.1-1.fc16.x86_64 on Fedora 16. What does
http://www.youtube.com/html5 say? Does trying through firefox work? I
don't know what Chrome's equivalent of about:plugins is, but is it
still picking up the required components for WebM? It's possible if
you built a dynamically linked Chrome that an update to some library
on your system means it can't find it anymore.

-- 
imalone