I have chromium (version 79) installed on my Red Hat 7.6 system and cannot play any mp4 videos. I attached an image below of what it looks like when I run chromium-browser <mp4 video>. I have researched a bit and found a few solutions online that do not work. The first solution I found was to change the spec file line:
CHROMIUM_CORE_GN_DEFINES+=' ffmpeg_branding="Chromium" proprietary_codecs=false
to
CHROMIUM_CORE_GN_DEFINES+=' ffmpeg_branding="ChromeOS" proprietary_codecs=true'
But this ended up with an unresolvable error when I tried to build it.
The second solution I found was to to follow the steps here: to install the chromium-ffmpeg package which should contain the codecs. It didn't work but I was able to find chromium-ffmpeg-extra (version 69) floating around online and installed it but still no change when trying to view the mp4.
Any tips on other solutions or how to debug this further?
1 Answer
If you use the snap versions, use only the snaps for Chromium and FFmpeg codecs (Snap from ). For info, I personally use kubuntu. MP4 videos (with h.264 + AAC codecs) play nicely.
