Chromium - does not play youtube video's and other multimedia

Short:
I just installed from scratch openSUSE leap 15 and in this new installation youtube video’s are longer played in Chromium.

Long:
I just installed from scratch openSUSE leap 15, during/after the installation I mounted my old home.

In the new version youtube video’s are no longer played in Chromium.
Another one that is not playing is: https://www.skyradio.nl/player/sky-radio

Both (youtube and skyradio) are both playing without issue in Firefox.

I moved away the current chromium config:

stop chromium

verify that no chromium process is running, kill any when still running

cd ~/.config

mv chromium chromium-old

start chromium again

Did not help :frowning:

Codecs have been installed from packman:
# zyp dup --from packman

Nothing to do.

Installed chromium is:

rpm -qa “chromium*”

chromium-67.0.3396.62-lp150.1126.1.x86_64
chromium-ffmpeg-extra-64.0.3282.134-lp150.7.1.x86_64

# rpm -qi chromium
Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/network:chromium
Distribution: network:chromium / openSUSE_Leap_15.0

I wonder whether the library chromium-ffmpeg-extra is actually loaded (out of the box):
# rpm -ql chromium-ffmpeg-extra
/usr/lib64/chromium-ffmpeg-extra
/usr/lib64/chromium-ffmpeg-extra/libffmpeg.so

As the directory /usr/lib64/chromium-ffmpeg-extra is not configured (by default in /etc/ld.so.conf)
As such I added:
/usr/lib64/chromium-ffmpeg-extra

And ran:

ldconfig

Issue looks similar to:

From the latter I used:

# zypper se -si ffmpeg
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…

S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
—±----------------------±--------±------------------------±-------±-----------------------------------------------------
i+ | chromium-ffmpeg-extra | package | 64.0.3282.134-lp150.7.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | ffmpeg | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | ffmpegthumbs | package | 18.04.3-lp150.110.1 | x86_64 | KDE:Applications (KDE_Frameworks5_openSUSE_Leap_15.0)
**

#** zypper se -si libav*
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…

S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
—±-----------------------±--------±-----------------±-------±---------------------
i | libavahi-client3 | package | 0.6.32-lp150.3.2 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavahi-client3-32bit | package | 0.6.32-lp150.3.2 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavahi-common3 | package | 0.6.32-lp150.3.2 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavahi-common3-32bit | package | 0.6.32-lp150.3.2 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavahi-core7 | package | 0.6.32-lp150.3.2 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavahi-glib1 | package | 0.6.32-lp150.3.2 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavc1394-0 | package | 0.5.4-lp150.1.12 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavcodec57 | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavdevice57 | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavfilter6 | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavformat57 | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavresample3 | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavutil55 | package | 3.4.2-lp150.3.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository

Are any of the libs not coming from packman a concern?

Anybody has a clue, suggestion to get youtube and skyradio working in Chromium again (they work in Firefox).

This is a known problem. There’s an open bug report on the issue. And I think “opera” and “vivaldi” are also affected.

They should be IMO, both being based on Chromium

Are you referring to bug report https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095545?

Looks like it is not solved easily, as it depends on other openSUSE distribution, such as SLE-15.
Fortunately there is movement recently.
Hopefully it is solved soon.

The URL should be without “?” 1095545 – Chromium 67.0.3396.62 video playback regression

Yes, that’s the one.