{"id":659,"date":"2011-03-15T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/?p=659"},"modified":"2011-03-15T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:29:50","slug":"mp3-and-h-264-playback-with-chromium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/15\/mp3-and-h-264-playback-with-chromium\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 and H.264 playback with chromium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I noticed that I was unable to play certain types of audio and video files directly from within Chromium, \u00c2\u00a0I am using Chromium\u00c2\u00a0version 10.0.648.133 (77742) on Ubuntu 10.10. \u00c2\u00a0It seems that due to the various licensing issues surrounding the codecs required to playback some of these media types, they are not supported without installing some extra packages.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get MP3 playback support up and running you will need to install the necessary software package using the following command:<\/p>\n<pre id=\"terminal\"> apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra<\/pre>\n<p>After a quick browser restart, you should be able to enjoy MP3 playback on Chromium.<\/p>\n<p>There is a similar process required in order to get MP4 and H.264 playback enabled, however this time you will need to install the following instead:<\/p>\n<pre id=\"terminal\"> apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree<\/pre>\n<p>Once again after a quick browser restart, you should be able to enjoy MP4 and H.264 playback on Chromium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I noticed that I was unable to play certain types of audio and video files directly from within Chromium, \u00c2\u00a0I am using Chromium\u00c2\u00a0version 10.0.648.133 (77742) on Ubuntu 10.10. \u00c2\u00a0It seems that due to the various licensing issues surrounding the codecs required to playback some of these media types, they are not supported without installing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}