[FFmpeg-user] Problem with videos not playing in mobile browser

Tue Jun 28 16:54:13 EEST 2022

Hello,

Could you share a URI for one of these videos?
Also, do they play on mobile before you add the text filter?

Cheers,

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Jess Portnoy
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From: ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org> on behalf of Dr Mark A. Garlick <magarlick2 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [FFmpeg-user] Problem with videos not playing in mobile browser

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Dear all

I am new to this forum.

I have noticed that some of my videos, encoded with ffmpeg and uploaded
to my websites, do not play on mobile web browsers, but they work
perfectly well on desktop browsers on my Linux machine. I get either a
message saying 'file is corrupted' or no message at all (just a blank
video) depending on the browser. I've tried Brave, Firefox and Chrome,
on an iPhone, a Samsung tablet and a Samsung Galaxy s10 plus. The 'bad'
videos consistently fail to play on mobile devices.

I've run an ffprobe on two .mp4 files: one which works on a mobile and
desktop browser (good.mp4) and one which will only play on a desktop
browser (bad.mp4. These are partial outputs (the rest of the output for
the two files seems identical):

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'bad.mp4':
   Metadata:
     major_brand     : isom
     minor_version   : 512
     compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
     encoder         : Lavf58.76.100
   Duration: 00:00:30.02, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1582 kb/s
   Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High 4:2:2) (avc1 / 0x31637661),
yuv422p10le(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1574 kb/s, 24 fps,
24 tbr, 12288 tbn, 48 tbc (default)
     Metadata:
       handler_name    : VideoHandler
       vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
   Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz,
stereo, fltp, 2 kb/s (default)
     Metadata:
       handler_name    : SoundHandler
       vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'good.mp4':
   Metadata:
     major_brand     : isom
     minor_version   : 512
     compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
     encoder         : Lavf58.76.100
   Duration: 00:00:30.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4824 kb/s
   Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv,
bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 4821 kb/s, 24
fps, 24 tbr, 12288 tbn, 48 tbc (default)
     Metadata:
       handler_name    : VideoHandler
       vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]

The command I used to encode them both (via a bash scrip on Linux) is

for f in *.mp4
     do ffmpeg -i "$f"  -vf "drawtext=text='© Mark A. Garlick /
markgarlick.com':x=w-tw-10:y=10:
fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS.ttf:fontsize=25:fontcolor=white"
-write_tmcd false -s 1280x720 -preset medium -crf 24 "full/${f%.*}.mp4"
done

Can anybody offer any insight?

My thanks.

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