On 08/17/2010 10:58 AM, Nganon wrote:
>
>
> On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com
> <mailto:drukargin@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Thanks for the info.  That doesn't entirely answer my question,
>     though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support? 
>     Google's youtube.com/html5 <http://youtube.com/html5> page
>     suggests that Chrome (and thus chromium?) supports h264.  Is this
>     a licensing issue going to the open source build that I've not
>     heard of yet?
>
>
> Yes bundled ffmpeg should have h264 support but I think it as broken
> with 
> a patch for ubuntu. 
>
> Did you read the bug report on crbug? It is reported for 479 and marked 
> as *fixed* in the trunk as of Aug 9th.  I didnt read the release note
> of it but 
> 490 was released on 13th and is in portage since then. So..you can 
> either unmask it and give it a try or wait for the next release and
> keep an 
> eye on the release notes.

I have tried 490, and it has the same problem: html5test.com reports no
h264 support, and non-webm, html5 youtube videos don't work.

I'll continue trying successive builds as they're posted... maybe 490
doesn't have that commit yet?

-Andy