Works if you have internet access so your files can be streamed and if you don’t mind uploading your videos first, which can take quite some time depending on file size ( see here for tips of how to speed up that process)Ģ.

Upload your video files to Google Drive, Dropbox or another file storage service that includes video playback capabilities, then stream your videos from there Short of doing that, here are some suggestions:ġ. A more complex solution not suited for everyone would be to complement Chrome OS with another Linux distribution. Some work best if you’ve got internet access 24×7, others also work if you’re frequently offline. Until Chrome OS supports more video file types and video/audio codecs, there are some things you can try to get your videos to work. Subtitle streams inside your video file are of an unrecognised formatĪn update to Chrome or Chrome OS introduced a bug that causes video playback issues (best remedy here is to report the issue in the Chromebook Support forums, see this discussion as an example) Interlaced video is not supported on some Chromebook models There are a number of possible reasons for these problems and they include:Ĭhrome OS (the operating system on Chromebooks) lacks support for the video codec and/or audio codec inside your video file – see here for currently supported media file types and codecs

Why some videos won’t play on Chromebooks Sometimes, subtitles that should be there don’t get displayed or the video doesn’t play at all. Sometimes, the video plays but there is no sound, or the video playback is patchy and shows artefacts that don’t appear in video player apps on other computers. However they are still struggling more than Mac, Windows or Linux computers when it comes to flawlessly playing every video file you throw at them. Chromebooks are great little machines with a wide range of features.

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