Issue: Certain .mov types only supported on Apple, not affected by Chrome or Chromium.

[JonnyBurger]

From message posted on Discord by jonnyburger

hmm, I think not, now I just realized it

some types of .mov are only supported on apple 😅 it doesn't depend on chrome or chromium

[JonnyBurger]

We should document and handle this better
Maybe have a function which can distinguish this

[rahulbansal16]

If certain mov are supported on apple. How come my chrome browser running in windows is able to run them?

[rahulbansal16]

Here is the video

81b96050-8c12-46ff-9e48-da8aa9755a27.mov

[JonnyBurger]

Preliminary analysis:

This is a QuickTime container (.mov) with a HEVC stream inside.

HEVC is only supported in some Chrome configurations, and enabled by default on Mac and Windows, controlled by the enable_platform_hevc flag (Chrome source code: src/media/media_options.gni)

We should investigate if we need to compile Chrome for Linux with this flag.

You can get the the duration of the video, but not the size. This is because the container stores the video duration, but the codec stores the height.

Recommendation:

• If you only need the duration, copy paste the source for getVideoMetadata() and remove the code for getting the height
• If you need the size, use getVideoMetadata() from @remotion/renderer. You need a server for that.