video.canPlayType reports h264 report even though this is not true

Bug #832710 reported by j^
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Bug Description

Version: 13.0.782.215~r97094-0ubuntu1
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

with chromium-codecs-ffmpeg installed(default, only ogg and webm support)

chromium still reports it might be able to play back h264 video
document.createElement('video').canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs*="avcl.42001E, mp4a.40.2"')
should return "" and not "maybe"

this is used to detect which format works,

example page using this: http://www.youtube.com/html5

this will cause video playback to fail on pages that prefere h264 over webm support,
on those pages, videos will just not work.
video.canPlayType was specifically added to the video tag api to prevent this from happening.

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Michael Heuberger (michael.heuberger) wrote :

+1 yeah i have the same issue here

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

This appears to be fixed.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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