All they have to do is add symlinks to their non-broken ffmpeg libraries in /usr/lib/chromium You don't have to compile chromium any differently, just tell it

All they have to do is add symlinks to their non-broken ffmpeg libraries in /usr/lib/chromium You don't have to compile chromium any differently, just tell it not to use its bundled ffmpeg (even chrome only includes a few codecs), and it'll figure out what's supported at runtime.