embedded videos not working in Chromium

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I’ve installed Chromium 10 and flash works in youtube but not as embedded videos in many websites. What would cause the videos not to work, yet flash is working. Any clues to solving this problem?

I’m running 11.3 64bit KDE

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Show us an example if you can

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on pages where the video would be is just a black or white area. On my other PC w/ Ubuntu 10.10 I don’t have that problem. I would use Google Chrome instead but for some reason I can’t send attachments in Google chrome, they crash every time. I’ve only seen this happen in openSuse 11.3 64bit. maybe the 32bit version has less problems?

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Still can’t help without an example URL

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Black Ball Ferry Line - Fares & Schedules

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Everything there is working fine for me

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This is what I have

rpm -qa | grep chromium
chromium-ffmpeg-10.0.610.0-100.pm.102.1.x86_64
chromium-libs-10.0.615.0-2.1.x86_64
chromium-10.0.615.0-2.1.x86_64
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The 32-bit version works OK with KDE.

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Here’s what I get…

davek@linux-fvw1:~> rpm -qa | grep chromium
chromium-libs-10.0.610.0-2.1.x86_64

chromium-ffmpeg-10.0.610.0-100.pm.102.1.x86_64
chromium-10.0.610.0-2.1.x86_64
davek@linux-fvw1:~>
davek@linux-fvw1:~>

Maybe its the 64bit version that’s the problem. What else could it be?
For now I’ll have to use Firefox for some sites.

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I have _64 if you notice, though my version is newer and from here
Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/11.3:/Contrib/standard

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Hi vinoman2,
You are right, chromium 10.610 has/had issues with embedded flash contents.
It is resolved in 10.615 build, i would advise to upgrade to .615 as carl mentioned the repo above. Which is contrib repo available in YaST -> Community repos already.

Good Luck!

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just upgraded to 10.615 but now within a few seconds after opening, Chromium crashes! Now it doesn’t work at all! What wrong with it? Never had this much trouble with any browser.

I’m back to Firefox for now. Can we upgrade to Firefox 4 now? Do I need another repo for that?

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What’s wrong? Good question. But since you seem to be isolated, I suspect the problem is not the software but rather some quirk of your configuration.

Firefox can be downloaded from mozilla and extracted to a folder, then run by clicking firefox-bin

or add the beta repo:
Index of /repositories/mozilla:/beta/openSUSE_11.3

but if you have the stable mozilla, you must remove that first.

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By the way, what are your repos:

zypper lr -d
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davek@linux-fvw1:~> zypper lr -d

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

—±---------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Contrib/standard | Contrib/standard | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/11.3:/Contrib/standard |
2 | Education | Education | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.3 |
3 | GNOME:Apps | GNOME:Apps | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.3 |
4 | Libdvdcss repository | Libdvdcss repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/11.3/ |
5 | Packman_Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.3 |
6 | X11:xfce | X11:xfce | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.3 |
7 | X11:xfce:nilda | X11:xfce:nilda | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/X11:/xfce:/nilda/openSUSE_11.3 |
8 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
9 | nvidia | nvidia | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.3/ |
10 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
11 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
12 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
13 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.3-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
14 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.3-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
davek@linux-fvw1:~>

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That looks reasonable

Try a new user login. Test Chromium, report back

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I guess there is some thing wrong , you should keep 1 repo for Chrome either Contrib or google-chrome.
ATM you have two repos for it, 1 and 8. Keep 1 and disable/delete 8 and then try Chrome.

EDIT: To find out the crash causes, you can try chrome from terminal. Just type: chromium

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here’s what I get:
davek@linux-fvw1:~> chromium
Segmentation fault
davek@linux-fvw1:~>

…and this is after I disabled google chrome repo. I should have stayed with chromium version 6. It didn’t give me all this trouble.
I’ll be using Firefox or Opera on this PC. If I want to use Chromium I’ll use Ubuntu which is more stable on my other PC. Too bad. Maybe I’ll just wait until 11.4 comes out and with a clean install openSuse 11.4 will be less buggy. Or maybe I’ll go back to a 32bit OS since 64bit is still more problems than 32bit in openSuse or other distros I’ve used :frowning: