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[David Biesack <991758@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running chromium-browser Version 41.0.2272.76 Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit)
and installed the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-
extra but I still can't play mp4/H.264 videos in the browser. I get a
black window with a play button, an empty progress bar, "0:00" and a
disabled audio button, but no video frame or playback.

The same video plays in Firefox.

VLC reports Stream 0 is Video, H264 - MPEG AVC (part 10) (avc1), decoded
format Planar 4:2:0 YUV; Stream 1 is audio MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a1)

I believe I've installed these correctly:

    $ dpkg-query -l chromium-browser
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
    |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name                     Version           Architecture      Description
    +++-========================-=================-=================-=====================================================
    ii  chromium-browser         41.0.2272.76-0ubu amd64             Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome

    $ dpkg-query -l chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
    |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name                     Version           Architecture      Description
    +++-========================-=================-=================-=====================================================
    ii  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-e 41.0.2272.76-0ubu amd64             Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser

    $ dpkg-query -l chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
    |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name                     Version           Architecture      Description
    +++-========================-=================-=================-=====================================================
    ii  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg   41.0.2272.76-0ubu amd64             Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser

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Title:
  Chromium web browser not showing mp4 videos

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  ::::::::::::::::::::::
  PROBLEM  ::
  ::::::::::::::::::::::
  embedded playback of mp4 videos works in Firefox, fails in Chromium

  :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
  REPRODUCE  ::
  :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
  examples are the videos in coursera.org If you are signed up for ml class,
  start chromium-browser with url
  https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/view?lecture_id=1
  If chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is not installed, which it isn't by default, you get a black screen for the video.
  Reproduced on Ubuntu12.04 and 11.10  
      chromium-browser --version
  Chromium 18.0.1025.151 Ubuntu 12.04

  :::::::::::::::::::::::
  SOLUTION  ::
  :::::::::::::::::::::::
  Ubuntu software center should suggest the addon plugin equivalent to:
  sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

  :::::::::::::::::::
  DETAILS  ::
  :::::::::::::::::::

  To tell if the library is installed:
  dpkg-query -l chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

  The needed library is installed as:
  /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpegsumo.so

  I found this out with the command
  dpkg-query -L chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

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