On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson <drukargin@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33 no
> longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support for h264
> videos (test any non-webm, html5 video at youtube; it will never load).
>
> I've tried doctoring the ebuild to use the system-provided ffmpeg, which
> does not fix h264 video and causes crashes on webm videos: probably why we
> went back to the bundled ffmpeg.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this?  Is there a straightforward work-around
> beyond going back to 6.0.472.14ish?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Andy
>

Using system-ffmpeg is commented as TODO in the ebuild refering to [1].
There is also bug report[2] related to this. Seems like it maybe fixed in a
never branch than 472.

[1] http://crbug.com/50678
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329641