Can't watch youtube videos with chromium on ubuntu 13.04 64-bit [duplicate]

Solution 1:

The correct answer is here: https://askubuntu.com/a/316722/93826

To solve the issue you have to update the chromium ffmpeg codec to the extra version:

sudo apt-get remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

Solution 2:

I get the same error message occassionaly, but with HTML5 (at least according to right click). I am not in the HTML5 beta, but was years ago. Both flash en HTML5 work good on other sites.

The solution is to re-enter the youtube HTML5 beta, and immediately leave it again.

Solution 3:

1. Youtube's HTML5 Player

   An option would be viewing your YouTube videos using HTML5 instead of flash.

   You just have to enter the Youtube HTML5 trial and enable HTML5 viewing, since Chromium offers almost full support of HTML5.

2. Fixing Adobe Flash

   How do I fix flash issues?

3. 'Aid' Flash at Chromium

   Type chrome://plugins/ in the address bar you can disable/enable e.g. PPAPI or NPAPI Flash Players.