WebM export doesn't work on Chrome (online version does)

[brachna]

Windows 8.1 x64, Chrome 53.0.2785.89
node,js 4.5.0
npm 3.10.6
bower 1.7.9
grunt-cli 1.2.0
gem (ruby) 2.6.6
latest compass

A deployed offline version tested with "grunt serve" works fine, except for video export. Whenever I try to export video the progress bar doesn't move forward.
Site version however works great.
There were a lot of deprecation warnings when building, maybe something broke since then?

P.S. Also I think build instructions should mention Ruby and Compass installation since grunt was throwing errors at me without them.

[cahaug]

I came across this error too. Depthy WebM export, for me, only works in Firefox, in December 2023.

Chrome, Chromium--totally broken.

I was trying to use Depthy for bulk WebM creation. I tried manually operating several tabs, with several WebM renderings going at the same time. That worked, but was painful to do. Still took hours of fully-engaged, dry work.

Automation really was quite necessary for my use case. Support for Firefox in Puppeteer is so poor that Depthy/Puppeteer automation with Puppeteer is currently, functionally impossible. The mechanism to enable it was just two days ago, closed on the Mozilla Bug forums, as "Not Going to Fix". https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587446

I started going through the Depthy code, searching for a way to solve my problem. I looked into how the WebM's were made, and a key component/library enabling this array to WebM conversion in Depthy is a library called Whammy. When I searched for Chrome incompatibility with Whammy, I hit a bullseye. Most of the thread is in Mandarin, which I didn't translate....All I needed was that the error was the same, and the OP said the last working Chrome Version was Google Chrome 90.0.4430.212 (64-bit).
antimatter15/whammy#70

In order to use Depthy with Chrome or Puppeteer, npm install [email protected], or use Chrome <=90.0.4430.212; which was released on May 10, 2021 before then works fine.

That is the last working version of Chrome for Whammy, and therefore, for Depthy.

[brachna]

Hi, it probably won't work for your use case with automation, but just in case here's source project and build for DepthyOffline: https://github.com/brachna/DepthyOffline