On 4 March 2012 09:39, Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last month, one of the most pleasant surprises I ran across was the fact > that Google finally seemed to have defaulted to HTML5 for YouTube. Virtually > every video I played (I cannot remember a single counterexample) was working > fully in the HTML5 player. It was a real relief, since I really do not want > to rely on Flash for my web experience. > > The last few weeks, however, something has changed drastically on this > front. All of a sudden, the majority of videos are NOT playable. They only > throw an "your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats > available" exception, and refuse to play. > > Does anyone know why this is? Are there any possible workarounds? > > I am running Chromium 19, built on Fedora 16. > > Working for me, firefox-10.0.1-1.fc16.x86_64 on Fedora 16. What does http://www.youtube.com/html5 say? Does trying through firefox work? I don't know what Chrome's equivalent of about:plugins is, but is it still picking up the required components for WebM? It's possible if you built a dynamically linked Chrome that an update to some library on your system means it can't find it anymore. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
