Play mp4 video in php desktop

[Ragu Nathan]

I need to play mp4 video in php desktop.

I have tried following code and it's not working.

<video width="400" controls>
  <source src="abc.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

But it's working fine with webm format video. Following code working fine.

<video width="400" controls>
  <source src="/abc.webm" type="video/webm4">
</video>

I have added "enable-media-stream": "" also in settings.json.

[Czarek Tomczak]

PHP Desktop Chrome does not support commercial codecs like mp4. Such support requires license fees.

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[Ragu Nathan]

Can you please explain. I need to play any video format in PHP desktop. Is it possible?

[Czarek Tomczak]

See https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/wiki/KnowledgeBase#Audio_and_video_support_in_PHP_Desktop_Chrome

You could build CEF/Chromium/PHPDesktop from sources with added mp4 support but this is not trivial.

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[Sam Cohen]

Couldn't we use  Download FFmpeg
and then:

<?php 

 echo "Starting ffmpeg...\n\n";

 echo shell_exec("ffmpeg -i input.avi output.webm&"); echo "Done.\n"; ?>

[Sam Cohen]

FOUND a workaround!!
Execute and use the regular chrome browser in --app mode  as an pop-out for playing mp4 and mp3!

<a href="?url=http://127.0.0.1:8888"> Go to your phpdesktop location </a>

<?php

if(isset($_REQUEST['url'])):

//Some flags to add to chrome.exe if desired

    // –disable-sync

    // –ash-enable-night-light

    // –allow-outdated-plugins

    // –incognito

    // –disable-background-mode

    // –disable-translate

    // –purge-memory-button

    // –start-maximized

    // –disable-gpu

    // –disable-plugins

    // –dns-prefetch-disable

    //--repl --crash-dumps-dir=./tmp

$cmd=sprintf( '"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" –disable-plugins --disable-gpu –disable-background-mode –incognito -window-size=1280,780 --app=%s', $_REQUEST['url'] );

exec( $cmd );

endif;

?>