Initiating Video Playback from the Browser Process

[Eric Sum]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if it's possible to initiate video playback from the browser process. In this case, the UI we're trying to incorporate the video into is a native UI living in the browser process that uses the ui/views framework; it's not web-based. There is no user interactivity planned; the video just plays on a loop indefinitely. For simplicity right now, we can assume it's just an mp4 (or other supported format) file loaded from disc, and there's no content encryption.

Is something like this supported today? Could someone please point me in the right direction if so?

One path I thought of is creating just a few lines of HTML with a <video> element, whose "source" points to the video file, and creating a views::WebView (which fits nicely into the existing framework) to render it. IIUC, this would basically be directing the playback through the render process such that it looks like any other video playback in Chrome. But I'm wondering if there's a better option out there?

Thank you so much!

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-Eric

[Eric Sum]

Hi there,

Are there any thoughts on this? I got the WebView solution that I described earlier working. If this is the way to go, I'm completely fine with that. I'm just checking for peace of mind that there's no other obvious solution I'm missing that's more suitable.

Thank you!

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-Eric

[Dale Curtis]

Sorry lots of folks have been out on holiday.

The views approach is likely the easiest. If the content is untrusted you must go this route. If it's trusted, you could scaffold the guts of the media element in the browser process if you really wanted to, but unless there's a significant need to go this route I wouldn't try it -- pipeline spin up should be fairly easy (see PipelineIntegrationTest), but compositing and audio rendering will be more difficult. 

- dale

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[Eric Sum]

That makes sense. Thank you! I'll reach out again if a significant need arises, but it sounds unlikely we'll ultimately attempt something like that.

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-Eric