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

[Ian Malone]

On 5 March 2012 13:06, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>

>> 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.
>

Christopher is saying he is not able to use HTML5 video support in
Youtube, not Flash. Of course if plugins are broken it may be related.
-- 
imalone