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

[Neal Becker]

Ian Malone wrote:

> 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.
> 

Latest chrome unstable isn't working with flash, I'll bet that's the bug you 
hit.  Adding a symlink (or waiting for next version) will fix it.