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georgski / cordova-vr-player

Plugin playing a video in VR View for Android and iOS
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VR player not playing video files in the Documents folder #7

Open binoculars88 opened 7 years ago

binoculars88 commented 7 years ago

I've downloaded a video file myvideo.mp4 in the Documents folder using cordova-plugin-file-transfer (example: file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/A9B73639-...-...-...-.../Documents/path/to/downloads). Next, I try to play it using: var path = cordova.file.documentsDirectory + 'path/to/downloads/myvideo.mp4'; GoogleVRPlayer.playVideo(path);

The console log shows that the path is the same as the download folder, but I'm getting this error: Failed to load video: The operation could not be completed. Notice that it's NOT saying it can't find the file.

Any thoughts?

FranciscoG commented 7 years ago

Failed to load video: The operation could not be completed

I'm getting the exact same vague error. I'm even using a sample mp4 taken directly from Google's VR SDK Samples github page so it's definitely not the video that's the issue.

FranciscoG commented 7 years ago

@binoculars88 I fixed the issue that was affecting me but only for iOS. I also have it updated to use GVRSDK 1.16 (the latest as of writing this comment). The issue is definitely a Path issue and my fix seems to work for now.

Just place your video inside the www folder as usual and use the path inside that folder (do not include the "www" in the location name). I've also added a third optional parameter to set the video type

GoogleVRPlayer.playVideo("videos/360.mp4", "videos/backup.mp4", "Mono");
GoogleVRPlayer.playVideo("videos/360.mp4", null); // defaults to StereoOverUnder

check out my fork for more info.
https://github.com/FranciscoG/cordova-vr-player

Will eventually update the Android side and submit a pull request when I do