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Some videos will not play in Chrome App in NW JS #6289

Closed marlarius closed 6 years ago

marlarius commented 6 years ago

I have found that certain videos will not play in webview inside Chrome Apps running in NW JS.

For easiest reproduction of the issue, you can try installing this sample.

It has also a version active on Chrome web store for running directly in Chrome.

For example, these videos will not play inside NW JS, but they work fine in apps running in Chrome:

https://www.svtplay.se/video/30987/alfons-aberg/alfons-aberg-sasong-1-avsnitt-10-slutbusat-alfons-aberg https://arenan.yle.fi/1-4219423 https://tv.nrk.no/serie/side-om-side/MUHH52000117/sesong-5/episode-1 https://demo.theoplayer.com/test-your-stream-with-statistics

It is not a Flash issue. I have Pepper Flash installed in my app and these videos do not use Flash anyway.

It is tested in version v0.26.5 in both Linux and Windows 7:

nwjs-sdk-v0.26.5-linux-x64 nwjs-sdk-v0.26.5-win-ia32

At first I thought it was a DRM issue, but these videos play inside Chrome even if I disable playing of protected contents in the settings.

Christywl commented 6 years ago

I can reproduce this issue on Linux/Windows with nwjs-sdk-v0.26.5.

rogerwang commented 6 years ago

@Christywl is it video in proprietary codecs?

Christywl commented 6 years ago

Check with Chrome browser, use chrome://media-internals/ to check these videos, all of them are h264.

rogerwang commented 6 years ago

So close this issue as it's expected. See more information here: http://docs.nwjs.io/en/latest/For%20Developers/Enable%20Proprietary%20Codecs/#supported-codecs-in-prebuilt-nwjs-binary

marlarius commented 6 years ago

Thanks guys. Didn't know about the neat chrome://media-internals/ trick :-) Using the correct libffmpeg solves it.