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[John Moser <john.r.moser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Chromium was playing Youtube videos via HTML5 browser in Ubuntu 14.04.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 via Update-Manager.

Now Chromium only loads the video, shows that the video is/has loaded,
and shows the Pause button (as the video is playing).  The video does
not actually play:  the seek bar doesn't move, video doesn't change, and
no sound comes out.  If I manually move the seek bar, the video does
follow.

I have no way to debug this.  It works on other platforms.  Apparently
Chromium is uniquely broken in Ubuntu 14.10 when upgraded from 14.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1049 [origin: unknown]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 28 19:25:00 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-15 (560 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac (20120425.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (3 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-10-25T11:04:15.180925

** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages utopic

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386931

Title:
  Chromium won't play HTML5 video after 14.04 to 14.10 upgrade

Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Chromium was playing Youtube videos via HTML5 browser in Ubuntu 14.04.

  I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 via Update-Manager.

  Now Chromium only loads the video, shows that the video is/has loaded,
  and shows the Pause button (as the video is playing).  The video does
  not actually play:  the seek bar doesn't move, video doesn't change,
  and no sound comes out.  If I manually move the seek bar, the video
  does follow.

  I have no way to debug this.  It works on other platforms.  Apparently
  Chromium is uniquely broken in Ubuntu 14.10 when upgraded from 14.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1049 [origin: unknown]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Oct 28 19:25:00 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-15 (560 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac (20120425.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  ThirdParty: True
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (3 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-10-25T11:04:15.180925

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