Aframe: Video and Videosphere Don't Load in Chromium

[JonathanGrant]

Description:
When I try to load the example video scene from https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/videosphere/ I just get a black screen on Chromium.

• A-Frame Version: 0.3.2
• Platform/Device: Chromium
• Reproducible Code Snippet or Demo URL [highly encouraged]:
  Here's my console output
  

[JonathanGrant]

How can I do this?

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Kevin Ngo [email protected] wrote:

Make sure your codec is compatible with Chromium, which only has FOSS
codecs.

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[ngokevin]

Will look into it.

[machenmusik]

isn't this due to stock Chromium lack of support for H264 / MP4?

[ngokevin]

Yeah. The actionable thing to do here is to convert that A-Frame example video to a friendlier codec.

[JonathanGrant]

Thanks guys! When the stable Chrome (not Chromium) has WebVR abilities, will I be able to play this codec?

[machenmusik]

yes - and supposedly there is some tricky way you can roll your own custom chromium build for testing that enables them

[JonathanGrant]

Can you please link me to wherever you heard that?

[dmarcos]

@JonathanGrant You can try any a-frame scene on regular Chrome and see if the video plays. (https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/videosphere/ plays fine) You won't be able to enter VR but at least you know if it's a problem with the video codec or something else.