FFmpeg codecs (free and proprietary) for use by third-party browser snaps
This package provides a chromium-ffmpeg content interface that third-party
browser snaps can connect to to get access to a host of proprietary codecs for
web content that they might not be allowed to redistribute themselves.
Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install chromium-ffmpeg
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
Install chromium-ffmpeg
To install chromium-ffmpeg, simply use the following command: