html5 on chromium

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What is

sudo apt-get chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

suppose to do?

I would suggest

sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

You probably need to do this too:

sudo apt-get remove --purge chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • James Deal
    James Deal almost 2 years

    How do you get html5 videos to work in Chromium?

    I have tried doing:

    sudo apt-get chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
    

    but it returned this error:

    E: Invalid operation chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
    
    • Panther
      Panther over 6 years
      Should work out of the box. Link to broken web site?