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tmighty
tmighty

Reputation: 11409

Which Chromium version has H.264 support?

The German Wikipedia says for Chromimum:

"Since March 2019 there are versions of the Chromium Project that include all codecs: H.264 and AAC, and even H.265"

The English Wikipedia however doesn't mention this.

Not being too familiar with Wikipedia, I find a bit strange that something is mentioned on a certain language version of Wikipedia.

I would however like to ask which version exactely they talk about on the German Wikipedia.

How could I find out which version they talk about exactely?

Thank you very much!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2210

Answers (2)

jamvaru
jamvaru

Reputation: 1

Perhaps the question would be: Which chromium BASED browser supports proprietary video formats?

In other words, anything but basic chromium, essentially.

Upvotes: 0

Dave S
Dave S

Reputation: 1502

Chromium builds by default do not include support for "proprietary codecs" that require patent licensing.

If you build from source, you can enable them using these flags:

proprietary_codecs=true ffmpeg_branding=Chrome

For building Chromium from source as part of the build process for the Chromium Embedded Framework, see the CEF build notes:

https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/wiki/BranchesAndBuilding

You can build from source with proprietary codecs support using Chromium source versions going back to at least 2015, probably much longer.

Note that building from source requires a decent-spec'd machine: 16 GB or more of RAM, 80+ GB of disk space.

Upvotes: 2

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