Ok so I know Chromium doesn't support h.264 and mpeg-4 video encoding because they're patented. But YouTube doesn't give me the option to use flash, Netflix removed their option to prefer html5 video (which allowed me to use silverlight instead) yet YouTube can still play html5 videos? Most of them only have the option to play in 360p, with some actually having all the video options. Very few though. It's really confusing, and I've spent all day looking online for solutions. Can there not be a way to 'illegally' inject h.264 and mp4 support in to chromium straight from google chrome, since they're literally the same? I was able to do so with PepperFlash.
Are you using Linux or some variation of it? I have Ubuntu on my PC and I installed chromium on it and youtube worked perfectly fine without anything special done to it.
Same here I am using Chromium on my windows work laptop an it has never had an issue playing anything.
I have the same problem with Chromium on Windows, some videos will be only in 360p while other have all quality options...
Why not install google chrome?
How did you install pepper?
From what repo?
You have to watch out for different versions, and for packages on some repos that are not entirely correctly made. Adding pepper to chromium, is actually a hack. What it does, is download the chrome package (hence why the version has to correspond with the version of chromium you're on), the break that package apart, throw away everything that chrome adds to chromium (the nasty Google spyware stuff), and then it compiles the pepper parts for chromium. There is no separate pepper package for chromium as such, as you rightfully mentioned, because pepper is based on Adobe licensed code. Many official repos do not offer a pepper package for chromium, because it's not entirely FOSS. For those distros, you have to find the reliable community repo that offers the package. Always check for the reliability! If you're unsure, you can always clone it from dev.google, and compile it yourself, the packages you need for pepper, are well documented.
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Make sure you've got the relevant codecs installed on your system (ffmpeg & gstreamer).
Because of all the private back-end licensing, which makes it not opensource.
I have the same issues. Other Youtuber's videos will play 1080p 60fps but mine don't. I've tried uploading in H.264 and WebM but neither worked for me.