Chromium update breaks all news videos on Chrome and Firefox but removing Chrome + fixes

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Videos on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC sites froze or display something went wrong.

Going back to last good backup and installing updates one at a time - everything worked until Chromium update went in.

VLC and ffmpeg-3 are from Packman - everything else is openSUSE-Leap

zypper lr

Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

| Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh

–±-------------±---------------------------±--------±----------±-------
1 | Packman | Packman Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes
2 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.3-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes
3 | repo-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.3-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes
4 | repo-update | openSUSE-Leap-42.3-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes

What I had to run to get videos working again:

zypper rm libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56 libswresample3 libvpx4 chromedriver chromium

Videos play again - What did Chromium do that breaks Firefox.

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When I updated last evening, firefox stopped playing some videos.

This morning, I checked and “libavcodec58” was now available in packman.

So: Yast Software Management
Repository View
Select “packman” repo
Switch system packages to this repo.

That switched libavcodec58 and three others. After that (and after restarting “firefox”), it seems to play videos again. And “chromium” and “vivaldi” both seem okay. But “opera” still won’t play them.

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zypper in -f --repo Packman libavcodec58

Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Package ‘libavcodec58’ is not available in your repositories. Cannot reinstall, upgrade, or downgrade.
Resolving package dependencies…

Nothing to do.

It is not in my Packman repo for 42.3

I reinstalled Chromium and video stopped working as soon as it installed. The removal got the video going again - I will check again tomorrow to see if it made it to my Packman

I tried these 2 Packman repos:

baseurl=http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3

baseurl=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3

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My mistake. Sorry about that.

I did not pay careful attention to the openSUSE version you are using. I’m on Leap 15.0, where that package is available. I do not know if it will become available for 42.3. I think there’s a packman mailing list for such questions.

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this has been reported and fixed for LEAP 15.0
unfortunately there is a build error for 42.3
http://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/2018-July/015706.html

15.0: succeeded for x86_64 (so, wait for an update of your mirror)
42.3: unresolvable: nothing provides libmysofa-devel, nothing provides
pkgconfig(libopenmpt), nothing provides pkgconfig(srt),
nothing provides pkgconfig(ffnvcodec)

at the moment 42.3 users don’t have a choice if they keep ffmpeg4 installed neither chromium nor firefox will play restricted formats
maybe it’s time for an upgrade to 15.0

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Hi,
So currently there is no way to play videos\Netflix\Spority in Chromium? I received some updates today to libavcodec58 but no luck. I’m currently using Chrome instead of Chromium to play Facebook videos, Netflix, Spotify, etc.