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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!


Solution

  • 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.