Video codecs in browsers

Heyy I'm having this problem as well.. using, how did you manage to work on chrome? for me it always launcheds chromiun, even though Im using channel "chrome" from the terminal or ui, sorry for hijacking your question 😅

@madtin I have a project setup in playwright.config file. This is working for me:

projects: [
        {
            name: 'chrome',
            use: {
                channel: 'chrome',
            },
        }]

more info here: https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers#google-chrome--microsoft-edge

Yeah using the same... but looking at the traces it says "chromium" and it fails to playback a stream since codecs are not present.

Launching the tests from the vs code extension it works thought. Since it launches my local chrome binary as expected

Do you tried running it from terminal?

I tried channeled chrome and chromium and engine is everytime "chromium". But when I run it on Chrome, the test works

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mine doesn't because of a missing component...

Hmmm, so I hope someone has a solution for my original question 😄

Any ideas for my original question?

AFAIK It's not possible to install those on chromium, and for the firefox part, the only problem is that "installing components" part?

Ideas for the original question:

1. Can you try with playwright docker image, and see if it's better there?
2. Do you need to actually test the video player? If not, you should it be remove it(by blocking the request, or just removing the element from the dom?).

Yes - it takes a long time to install the components. In headed mode I tried to wait long enough and the video finally started. But when I try it in headless mode, it fails in most cases (even with ridiculous timeouts like 5 mins). But it is weird, because sometimes a test takes like 1 minute and passes. But in another run it timesout

Thanks, I will try the docker image. And yes, I need to test the videoplayer too.

It works the same with the docker image :/

I have the same issue, video cannot be played in chrome. Is there any solution for it ?

Doesn't using a channel for Chrome do the trick? https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers#google-chrome--microsoft-edge

Nope.. I tried channel 'chrome' and even tried using the desktop chrome by providing the location of the executable.

Are you using @playwright/test or is this a script? In case of a test, what does your configuration (playwright.config.ts/js) look like? In case of a script, what does the code for launching the browser, opening the browser context and the page look like?