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[David Biesack <991758@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It turns out that chrome fails to play the videos when they are served
from a SharePoint server (on our intranet). If I download the videos, I
can Ctrl-O Open them in Chrome and view them. Same if I move them to a
web server instead of a document folder in SharePoint. (Note that
Firefox can view the files in the SharePoint folder)

Developer Tools in chrome shows the attached source.


** Attachment added: "source view when trying to play MP4 video from SharePoint folder"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/991758/+attachment/4388543/+files/sig.html

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Title:
  Chromium web browser not showing mp4 videos

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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

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  REPRODUCE  ::
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  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

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

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  DETAILS  ::
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  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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