On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com> wrote:

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 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.