Vimeo videos don't play in Chromium (only in Google Chrome)

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#1

In bugzilla I have been advised to ask for help in the forums:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008725#c21

My situation is:

rpm -q ffmpeg-3.1 (installed from packman)
ffmpeg-3.1-3.1.20161205.a57b701-1.10.x86_64

rpm -q chromium (installed from openSUSE 41.1 Update repo)
chromium-55.0.2883.75-99.2.x86_64

rpm -q google-chrome-stable (installed from Google's repo)
google-chrome-stable-55.0.2883.87-1.x86_64

Testing with a random video:

https://vimeo.com/196106867

Result:

Video plays in Google Chrome
Does’t play in Chromium.

What should I do?

#2

tell us your repo list

zypper lr -d
#3 

#  | Alias                               | Name                                    | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                        | Service
---+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | Google_Chrome                       | Google Chrome                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64                                               |        
 2 | RawTherapee                         | RawTherapee                             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rawtherapee/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/            |        
 3 | download.nvidia.com-leap            | nVidia Graphics Drivers                 | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1                                              |        
 4 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss       | Main Repository (NON-OSS)               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/                          |        
 5 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss_1     | Update Repository (Non-Oss)             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/                                     |        
 6 | download.opensuse.org-oss           | Main Repository (OSS)                   | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/                              |        
 7 | download.opensuse.org-oss_1         | Main Update Repository                  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss                                          |        
 8 | ftp.gwdg.de-suse                    | Packman Repository                      | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                                           |        
 9 | google-chrome                       | google-chrome                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                                        |        
10 | http-download.opensuse.org-1f4f3a68 | KDE:Extra                               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                   |        
11 | http-download.opensuse.org-22fcdb31 | devel:languages:python                  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/     |        
12 | http-download.opensuse.org-7bd1a2b3 | X11:Utilities (for redshift)            | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Utilities/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/               |        
13 | http-download.opensuse.org-d346fc1e | multimedia:color_management             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/color_management/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |        
14 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug                | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/                        |        
15 | repo-debug-non-oss                  | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug-Non-Oss        | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/                    |        
16 | repo-debug-update                   | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug         | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/oss                                    |        
17 | repo-debug-update-non-oss           | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/                               |        
18 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Source               | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/                       |        
19 | repo-update                         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss/                                         |
#4

I tried the link in Chromium and it froze. In Firefox, it also froze but
eventually came up with a message that the Adobe Flash plugin had
crashed. Surprisingly, it worked in Qupzilla.

Since the Adobe Flash plugin has been updated from 11 to 24, it has
failed to work in FB and Twitter on all the browsers above plus Adobe.
Having said that, this failure is a little different. As far as I know,
the only solution to these problems that I’ve seen suggested is to find
a copy of version 11 and install that instead of 24.

–
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK.
openSUSE 42.2; KDE Plasma 5.8.3; Qt 5.6.1; Kernel 4.4.36;
AMD Athlon X4 860K Processor; Sound: FCH Azalia;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (Driver: nouveau)

#5

do

zypper dup --from 8

both chromium and firefox work fine for me, I haven’t been on vimeo but youtube (with h264) and a few other sites work good afaik viemo does not use flash any more

#6

But why should I switch my amarok, k3b and all kinds of other packages to packman just because of ffmpeg? So far things have always worked by just installing chromium-ffmpeg from packman. Unfortunately after some version of chromium that package is no longer available and as it was mentioned in the bugzilla thread - only installing ffmpeg is enough. However it seems not enough.

Can you please go a little bit more in depth? I really don’t want to switch all system packages to packman.

#7

opensuse is open and contains no patented code, those packages are on packman you can not switch one by one package there are too many of them, amarok is build from the same source, if you want multimedia to work you need to do a full vendor change to packman

#8

Why should I change vendor for packages which are unrelated?

#9

You need to get all codecs from packman or you will have problems playing proprietary file formats with other programs.

#10

I switched just the packages named lib* to packman and the videos now play.

Thanks everyone.

#11

Just remember next time you have a video/audio problem just switch vendors. We see this all the time and the simplest way is to just do the vendor change it almost always fixes non hardware related multimedia problems.

Don’t know why you resist???

#12

Because switching amarok or k3b wouldn’t change video playback in browser :wink:

#13

packman provides more then just multimedia packages it provides the mp3 plugin for k3b it provides some propiatory firmware for wifi as welll as apps that are not maintained on oss, if having all of packman bothers you remove your version of the repo
zypper rr 8
and use only Packman Essentials
ftp://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/Essentials/

zypper ar -f ftp://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/Essentials/ 'Packman Essentials'

then do a vendor change with that repo

or did you just want to troll?

#14

Thanks for the tip.