Chromium: What are the required plugins for video

[featherfoot]

Is there a list of the plugins required for Chromium to properly handle video playback on internet news sites? If so, what is it?

[featherfoot]

I ran chromium from a terminal window. An error message shows up when video fails. It is
“[19373:19413:0418/163526.351165:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_impl.cc(970)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -101”

There are also net_errors of -100.

[pavinjoseph]

Install the proprietary codes from Packman:

sudo zypper in opi
opi codes

Or if you don’t want Packman repos on your machine, consider a batteries-included browser like Brave from flatpak/flathub.

flatpak install com.brave.Browser

[dcurtisfra]

@featherfoot:

In general, Video on the Web needs H.264 support on the client machines.

The current openSUSE situation is here – <OpenH264>
For Tumbleweed, the instructions needed to add the required (openSUSE) repository are detailed on that openSUSE Wiki page.

Here on Leap 15.5, Chromium and Firefox both display Video material perfectly without any issues –

 > LANG=C zypper repos repo-openh264
Alias          : repo-openh264
Name           : Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Leap)
URI            : http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap/
Enabled        : Yes
GPG Check      : (r ) Yes
Priority       : 99 (default priority)
Autorefresh    : On
Keep Packages  : Off
Type           : rpm-md
GPG Key URI    : 
Path Prefix    : 
Parent Service : 
Keywords       : ---
Repo Info Path : /etc/zypp/repos.d/repo-openh264.repo
MD Cache Path  : /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-openh264
 > 
 > LANG=C zypper search --repo repo-openh264
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                           | Summary                                  | Type
---+--------------------------------+------------------------------------------+-----------
   | gstreamer-1.20-plugin-openh264 | Gstreamer openh264 plugin                | srcpackage
i+ | gstreamer-1.20-plugin-openh264 | Gstreamer openh264 plugin                | package
i  | libopenh264-7                  | H.264 codec library                      | package
   | libopenh264-devel              | Development files for openh264           | package
i  | mozilla-openh264               | H.264 codec support for Mozilla browsers | package
   | openh264                       | H.264 codec library                      | srcpackage
 >

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And, Chromium specific – the “Widevine” support –

 > LANG=C zypper search --installed-only chromium
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                        | Summary                              | Type
---+-----------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------
i+ | chromium                    | Google's open source browser project | package
i+ | chromium-plugin-widevinecdm | Chromium Widevine CDM plugin         | package
 >