Streama Player: Blank screen

neo-fetch commented 3 years ago

Issue description

I just downloaded and configured the streama server on my DigitalOcean server, and the problem I face is that it plays the audio but I only see a blank screen.

Steps to Reproduce

Configured upload and a local folder, added the movieDB API key.
Created movie and chose the local video directory movie, which it successfully added
On playing the movie, it showed a black screen with only audio. I downloaded the movie into my local computer to see if the film itself was like that but it played flawlessly on my vlc, so not the video's problem. (Format: MKV)

Expected Behaviour

It should play the movie completely.

Actual Behaviour

It only streams a black screen and plays the sound

Environment Information

Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64
Streama version: 1.10.3
Custom streama build, describe customizations or provide a link to fork (If Applicable): not a custom streama build
Container Version (If Applicable): not a container version (Installed via wget on the standard download documentation provided.)

neo-fetch commented 3 years ago

Heres a video of what it looks like(tested this on chrome, chromium, and edge).

neo-fetch commented 3 years ago

Okay, so I tried it out on some smaller files(mkv) and to my surprise, it worked? still takes too long to stream but otherwise its.... fine? So I don't really know what is causing this then. Is is because my movie file is too large(3.5GB)? Is it because I have 2 vCPUs 2GB / 60GB Disk?

neo-fetch commented 3 years ago

Attempting reboot of my server. Maybe that should fix it

neo-fetch commented 3 years ago

Just came across this https://docs.streama-project.com/about/video-codecs/ mostly this might work. Will update.

neo-fetch commented 3 years ago

IT WORKED!! seems like that was a codec issue indeed! glad I solved this one.

GitEin11 commented 3 years ago

is there a way to use external video player?

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