Nobody compiles Chromium that way — it has a dependency on libavcodec (ffmpeg), and everyone just links it with the version already installed on their system.

Nobody compiles Chromium that way — it has a dependency on libavcodec (ffmpeg), and everyone just links it with the version already installed on their system. If you're a freetard running gNewSense, you'll only have support for WAV, Vorbis, and Theora in OGG containers. Everyone else will have support for every codec under the sun.