Is there a way/plugin to add mp4 support to Puppeteer.?

[thegeekybaniya]

Can we make a plugin for puppeteer to add mp4 support? We have already added a lot using this library, what would be the pathway for that, I am willing to take that up.

[danielgwilson]

You can get it working pretty easily by setting the executablePath LaunchOption to the path to your Chrome installation. Chromium does not support .mp4, but Chrome does—both work with puppeteer.

See:
puppeteer/puppeteer#291

I think is is because the MP4 codec is under a paid license fee. Which means it isn't distributed with Chromium but only within Google Chrome.

mp4 is missing in chromium: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video

[thegeekybaniya]

@danielgwilson But will the puppeteer extra stealth plugin will be as effective as it is now?

[danielgwilson]

@thegeekybaniya not 100% sure but it seems to work fairly well—if others are aware of any "gotchas" that I've missed, I'd be super interested.

[berstend]

@danielgwilson But will the puppeteer extra stealth plugin will be as effective as it is now?

The stealth plugin works with all chromium based browsers :-)