Control video with "Set time"

[60-hz]

Link to simple, reproducible example patch

https://cables.gl/edit/e80Qum

*This video is encoded with a keyframe distance of 1 for smooth frame by frame reading

Describe the bug

• Issue: at start video display nothing (black), cannot seek in the file.
• To-be able to seek, VideoTexture Op need to "play" first.

Attended behavior: The video should display the first frame on load and wait for "set time" number or "play".

How To Reproduce

1. Open Patch
2. No video is playing despite "Set time"

Platform

• Chrome

[pandrr]

Sorry, this patch is set to "view only"

[60-hz]

Oh, ok, I allowed editor now.

[pandrr]

it is not possible to autplay videos. google does not want you to. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay

maybe try to remove an audio track if there is one. but it is not a cables thing

[60-hz]

Ok, I understand. "autoplay" is precisely what I try to avoid here... I guess Chrome prevent any frame to display without user interaction... but :

• There is no audio on my video... and it still doesn' display.
• Could this be avoided with standalone, using "chrome.exe --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required" ? (The VideoTexture op is still broken in the last 0.3.0-rc2 so I cannot try)

I need to port some exercices with basic non linear video and this is not possible within cables because of this limitation.