Pi 2 Raspbian chromium

[pottzie]

I just got Raspbian working on my Pi 2 and now I'm trying to get Chromium working. I want to get video working, play Youtube, etc. I probably made my first mistake when I installed Chromium and Iceweasel from the Debian repositories. I found the guide to get flash working, but Chromium does one frame every ten seconds, and forget Icewesel, it ain't happenin' at all there.

I found the guide to get Chromium working http://blog.valitov.me/2014/06/installi ... m.html?m=1 but couldn't install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra; bash says there's a conflict. And even though video did play, even if a slideshow would have been faster, there was no audio. Does the Pi2 do audio? I thought the HDMI handled that.

Once Raspbian is installed, what are the steps to get Chromium, video and audio working? And how many steps does it take with ARM 7, or is it even possible?

[fruitoftheloom]

I just got Raspbian working on my Pi 2 and now I'm trying to get Chromium working. I want to get video working, play Youtube, etc. I probably made my first mistake when I installed Chromium and Iceweasel from the Debian repositories. I found the guide to get flash working, but Chromium does one frame every ten seconds, and forget Icewesel, it ain't happenin' at all there.

I found the guide to get Chromium working http://blog.valitov.me/2014/06/installi ... m.html?m=1 but couldn't install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra; bash says there's a conflict. And even though video did play, even if a slideshow would have been faster, there was no audio. Does the Pi2 do audio? I thought the HDMI handled that.

Once Raspbian is installed, what are the steps to get Chromium, video and audio working? And how many steps does it take with ARM 7, or is it even possible?

fyi Chromium Browser PepperFlash add-on is not hardware accelerated, though if you install Ubuntu/Linaro (only suitable for RPi2 B ARMv7) you may find a better experience, but the Operating System is Community Developed

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi


Natively Adobe Flash is not supported, even Youtube are using HTML5 Video by default

https://www.youtube.com/html5

Raspbian has Epiphany Browser included which is good, but for a better experience look at kweb browser, though read the manual first

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 60#p333125


Audio
http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... -config.md

[pottzie]

Thanks a bunch. I've been following the Linaro thread here on the forum, so far I'm only half way through the thread. It looks like a fast moving target, and I'm impressed with all they've done so far. I'll look into it and see if that's the 'shortest' route to playing video. Thanks.

[kusti8]

Thanks a bunch. I've been following the Linaro thread here on the forum, so far I'm only half way through the thread. It looks like a fast moving target, and I'm impressed with all they've done so far. I'll look into it and see if that's the 'shortest' route to playing video. Thanks.

I now use linaro as my main developing platform on raspberry pi because the packages are updated faster than debian/raspbian. I got chromium, not sure which version, but it includes the web store. Works well.

[pottzie]

Looking at Linaro, it went to some Microsoft site. Not sure how to download and install that using my Linux system.

[fruitoftheloom]

Looking at Linaro, it went to some Microsoft site. Not sure how to download and install that using my Linux system.

Software is installed either via APT or built from source, have no idea what you are trying to achieve

[RobHenry]

Looking at Linaro, it went to some Microsoft site. Not sure how to download and install that using my Linux system.

There are two popular ubuntu images, both of which have a working version of chromium browser. Trusty:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 42#p697042

and linaro:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 77#p687077

[fruitoftheloom]

Removed as mis-understood and therefore a confusing reply

[pottzie]

Actually getting Ubuntu set up as I type this. Installed Ubuntu, resized the card and have Lubuntu loading now. I see that Linaro is Ubuntu based, but from what I gather I can install Linaro on top of Ubuntu..? Apt-get install linaro?

[fruitoftheloom]

Actually getting Ubuntu set up as I type this. Installed Ubuntu, resized the card and have Lubuntu loading now. I see that Linaro is Ubuntu based, but from what I gather I can install Linaro on top of Ubuntu..? Apt-get install linaro?

You do not need Linaro, you appeared to have mis-understood responses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linaro

Ubuntu is a Community Supported Operating System which uses Linara Open Source Tools to be able to install Ubuntu on the ARMv7 Architecture of the RPi2 B