Video initial render problem

  • Resolved Ryan_Prejean

    (@ryan_prejean)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    I’m trying to host an mp4 video locally on my site. Everything works fine except that when the video begins, there’s a dark shadow covering the video. This shadow goes away as soon as the frame changes. If you rewind the video, then it plays fine all the way through. The darkness of the video only shows up if you reload the page and hit play for the first time. By the way, the shadow is present even when viewing it in the media library, so it shouldn’t be my theme or code when adding it. Has anyone seen this problem before?

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  • Nouvelle Vape

    (@nouvelle-vape)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    I have the same problem, but did not find solution.
    Hope someone can help us…
    Thanks

    Thread Starter Ryan_Prejean

    (@ryan_prejean)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    You can see an example of this problem at http://test.lindsaysherrin.com/test/

    As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the video. It plays using other players when uploaded to their site, and Windows Media Player, VLC, and Quicktime all play it without an issue. I’ve also tried it on both IIS and Linux servers. This issue is driving me nuts because their doesn’t seem to be any apparent cause or reason.

    Thread Starter Ryan_Prejean

    (@ryan_prejean)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    Okay, after extensive research, I’ve discovered that this is an issue with how browsers render videos with html5. I was able to fix this problem by rendering videos using constant framerate instead of variable framerate. There’s a checkbox in Handbrake on the video tab. If that doesn’t fix the issue, then changing the H.264 Profile to baseline and the level to 3.0 should solve it.

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