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Playing videos in electron

I'm currently writing an electron application to run as a desktop app on Windows. I'm trying to embed a video on the page to all the end user to play it and it appear impossible. Sample code is: <...
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Play unsupported HTML5 video formats in browser

I am making a desktop application based on Electron + Vue. I need to play a video inside my application. The video source is always located locally, i.e. on the user's computer. And everything was ...
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HTML5 video not showing image with very large (local) files on Chrome(ium)

I'm working on an Electronjs app that needs to play very large videos stored in the user's machine. I've tried both with the vanilla html5 video tag and with other players. Small videos load and play ...
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Unload a video from memory, but not delete it from page

I'm making a game with Electron that allows access to many videos on a single page. Electron is eating up endless memory by constantly readding videos to the memory when they are played after being ...
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Video tag in electron

I'm trying to play videos (mp4) in an window loaded with Electron. Weird thing : it works fine with only one video, with the others it shows a black screen. The only difference between all videos are ...
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Extracting m4v video chapters from file

I'm creating an application built with the electron framework (to run html5 apps). I want to open m4v files from the webplayer, but i also need the video chapters. Electron should have an API to open ...
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JavaScript - Read metadata of video file

I've been at this for hours, it's time to ask for a little help. I need to know the frame rate of a video on load in JavaScript/HTML and I'm trying to avoid VLC plug-in or ffmpeg. The browser reads ...
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Detecting a video's codec in JavaScript

I'm working on desktop app based on Electron (i.e. Node.js and a Chrome browser shell crammed together), and one of its features will include loading arbitrary video files from the local filesystem. ...
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