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So unfortunately this comes down to a Chromium update. Chromium has recently dropped support for decoding some variants of h264 encoded MP4 that were previously supported.
Color.io relies entirely on native browser capabilities for decoding video right now and since the browser platform has stopped supporting these videos, there's unfortunately not much I can do at this point.
An easy way to tell if a video file can be decoded by the browser is to try to open the video with the browser (right click - open with - choose your browser) - That way we can be sure whether it's a bug in Color.io or an incompatible codec.
Hi @john1580 - thanks for letting me know!
Temporary workaround
Add the videos by clicking the [+] button instead of drag and drop for now.Why this happened
There is a new security restriction in browsers that prevents videos from playing back without a "transient user activation" and drag and drop is not that for some reason. When you click to load it should work.Upcoming solution
The reason the video has to play back immediately is so the app can determine the FPS. But since that's not actually required until the video is exported, I can lazily determine the FPS during in-app playback. This will also speed up video loading as a nice side effect.@monokee - thanks for the reply! The issue here is not consistent. I tried again with some new footage from another camera (same settings/codec) and the drag and drop feature is working. Also, the temporary workaround does not work as well (with the footage that I used to drag and drop) and I'm getting the same error message.
@john1580 that sounds more like a compatibility issue. What type of video file causes this? Generally speaking color.io can only open videos that your browser can natively play. For most browsers that’s limited to h264/h265 or webm encoded files. If you don’t think it’s a codec issue, could you send me the file to jonathan@color.io so I can check?
Hi Jonathan - I sent you a link to a Google drive folder as the 4k files are too big.
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So unfortunately this comes down to a Chromium update. Chromium has recently dropped support for decoding some variants of h264 encoded MP4 that were previously supported.
Color.io relies entirely on native browser capabilities for decoding video right now and since the browser platform has stopped supporting these videos, there's unfortunately not much I can do at this point.
An easy way to tell if a video file can be decoded by the browser is to try to open the video with the browser (right click - open with - choose your browser) - That way we can be sure whether it's a bug in Color.io or an incompatible codec.
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