Which Chromium version has H.264 support?

The German Wikipedia says for Chromimum:

"Since March 2019 there are versions of the Chromium Project that include all codecs: H.264 and AAC, and even H.265"

The English Wikipedia however doesn't mention this.

Not being too familiar with Wikipedia, I find a bit strange that something is mentioned on a certain language version of Wikipedia.

I would however like to ask which version exactely they talk about on the German Wikipedia.

How could I find out which version they talk about exactely?

Thank you very much!

Solution

Chromium builds by default do not include support for "proprietary codecs" that require patent licensing.

If you build from source, you can enable them using these flags:

proprietary_codecs=true ffmpeg_branding=Chrome

For building Chromium from source as part of the build process for the Chromium Embedded Framework, see the CEF build notes:

You can build from source with proprietary codecs support using Chromium source versions going back to at least 2015, probably much longer.

Note that building from source requires a decent-spec'd machine: 16 GB or more of RAM, 80+ GB of disk space.