Using chromium-ffmpeg in third-party browser snaps

Reynolds5 · October 8, 2019, 7:03pm

@oSoMoN is some user action needed after installing both chromium and chromium-ffmpeg or does it work automatically?

oSoMoN · October 8, 2019, 7:26pm

The chromium snap doesn’t need chromium-ffmpeg, it already contains the codecs.

oSoMoN · September 10, 2020, 2:31pm

Updated the documentation as there is a new major version of chromium (84) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (98516).

gmiazga · August 5, 2021, 5:48am

@oSoMoN will you be posting new versions of chromium-ffmpeg soon?

oSoMoN · August 23, 2021, 5:18pm

Yes, I’m working on updates, sorry for the delay.

oSoMoN · August 30, 2021, 2:21pm

Updated the documentation for a new major version of chromium (93) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (103551).

oSoMoN · September 2, 2021, 9:28pm

Updated the documentation for a new major version of chromium (94, currently in the beta channel) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (104195).

oSoMoN · November 29, 2021, 5:39am

Updated the documentation for a new major version of chromium (96) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (104707).

ferroao · March 4, 2022, 5:19pm

Hi, what would be the revision for chromium 98?

oSoMoN · March 28, 2022, 1:00pm

Updated the documentation for a new major version of chromium (100) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (106454).

adamv · May 12, 2022, 11:30am

I see that the latest Opera Developer (89.0.4415.0) needs libffmpeg 107578 (the version of libffmpeg found in in Chromium 102 and 103). Could we get the chromium-ffmpeg snap updated to include 107578, so that proprietary media works here as well?

oSoMoN · May 20, 2022, 8:16am

Updated the documentation for a new major version of chromium (103) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (107578).

Rigo · May 21, 2022, 2:10am

Hi oSoMoN, I just refreshed my snaps and it states that there’s no updates available but when I checked on what files were installed I found that the revision 107578 is not there. The latest one is still chromium-ffmpeg-106454. May I ask for you to upload 107578 again, please? Thanks in advance! Cheers

oSoMoN · June 8, 2022, 1:14pm

What revision of the chromium-ffmpeg snap is installed?

What’s the output of snap connections chromium-ffmpeg ?

Rigo · June 8, 2022, 4:28pm

Hi oSoMoN,

Thanks for your reply. I just noticed that 107578 is in a different folder (“28” instead of “26”) this time, that’s why I couldn’t find it! The thing is that I use the Opera browser and that isn’t a snap, so I can’t rely on connections and I have to link the actual libffmpeg.so file for the right version.

Thanks again for your help and for maintaining this snap! Cheers.

ferroao · July 9, 2022, 11:51pm

I think the OP table should be:

FFMpeg 107578 : chromium 102

adamv · July 10, 2022, 9:00am

Both 102 and 103 use FFMpeg 107578

oSoMoN · August 1, 2022, 8:04am

Updated the documentation for a new major version of chromium (105) with its corresponding FFMpeg revision (108372).

adamv · August 31, 2022, 10:32am

Can we update the chromium-ffmpeg package to add 108653 because Opera developer released 92.0.4519.0 (based on Chromium 106.0.5216.6) to the snap store on 2022-08-23 and this uses libffmpeg 108653? However, the most recent (as I write this) chromium-ffmpeg package was released back on 2022-08-01 and as such only has 104707, 107578, 106454 and 108372 (i.e. not 108653).

P.S. I know you have already produced a suitable 108653 binary because I see that the Chromium edge channel is now at version 106.0.5249.12 (released on 2022-08-26) and this too has libffmpeg 108653 (I checked ).

adamv · August 31, 2022, 10:51am

You can probably also drop 104707 (Chr 96), 106454 (100) and 107578 (103) while you are at it as none of those versions are supported anymore and it will make the download smaller.