Motioneye: YUV444/mp4 aka "H.264 (.mp4)" codec unsupported in Firefox

Created on 16 Nov 2018 · 4Comments · Source: ccrisan/motioneye

The YUV444/mp4 (aka "H.264 (.mp4)" in motionEye) codec is unsupported in Firefox. An codec which works across all platforms (VP8/VP9/webm ?) would be nice.

I get this by playing an video recorded in above format while hitting play on the video in motionEye (from Firefox console)

Media resource https://XXXX/2018-11-16/05-42-03.mp4?_username=XXXX&_signature=XXXX could not be decoded, error: Error Code: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005)
Details: mozilla::SupportChecker::AddMediaFormatChecker(const mozilla::TrackInfo&)::

Firefox Browser compatibility list

Source

jkaberg

Most helpful comment

For now I've just hacked around this with a simple conversion script

Under File Storage -> Run a command
/etc/motioneye/convert.sh %f

convert.sh:

#!/bin/bash

FILEPATH="$1"
TMPPATH=$(mktemp).mp4

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "$FILEPATH" -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264 -crf 20 "$TMPPATH"
/bin/rm -f "$FILEPATH"
/bin/mv "$TMPPATH" "$FILEPATH"

The files now play fine in Firefox.

jkaberg on 2 Dec 2018

👍4 🎉1

All 4 comments

For now I've just hacked around this with a simple conversion script

Under File Storage -> Run a command
/etc/motioneye/convert.sh %f

convert.sh:

#!/bin/bash

FILEPATH="$1"
TMPPATH=$(mktemp).mp4

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "$FILEPATH" -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264 -crf 20 "$TMPPATH"
/bin/rm -f "$FILEPATH"
/bin/mv "$TMPPATH" "$FILEPATH"

The files now play fine in Firefox.

jkaberg on 2 Dec 2018

👍4 🎉1

Thanks !

horlas on 11 Apr 2019

YUV444 doesn't sound right. Motion sends images in YUV420 format to ffmpeg to encode. Please report this issue to motion project so they can give us some assistance.