Pretty much what it says on the tin.

In previous versions of Cinema, I noticed that if you played raw videos that were encoded to vp8/9 (the same codec Youtube videos use), then they would actually play properly for people who did not have the CEF codec fix installed. Since that discovery, I have been using vp9 for my video uploads so they can be viewed by both users with the CEF fix and those without it.

Now that there is an in-game check for the codec fix when playing raw video, these videos are being blocked from playing on the client despite being able to play properly otherwise.

Reproduction steps:

1. Factory reset of Gmod (or uninstall CEF codec fix)
2. Join cinema_modded server
3. Queue VP9-encoded video (such as https://serioussaturdays.net/crash.webm)

Expected result: video plays
Actual result: CEF banner warning pops up, and video does not attempt to play.

Hey, I'm submitting this new issue due to the announcement that Animix has shut down due to problems in the scrapper system.
If possible and if anyone's able to, will any of the addon's maintainers be adding support for another website like it? Thank you, and no worries if this isn't doable at the moment.

Greetings,

I am the creator and maintainer of the Cinema map cinema_construct. Today I released an update for the map that skips the theater_door patch for Cinema-based gamemodes like cinema_modded. My apologies for not applying this sooner.

With this change, I believe the file gamemode/maps_ducttape/cinema_construct.lua is no longer necessary. Feel free to test these changes I've made to ensure they work for you as well.

Thank you! 👍

Yugen appears to have had a new domain change.
I attempted to update the two lines with the new domain but it doesn't seem to fix the issue.

Image file handler.

local SERVICE = {}

SERVICE.Name 	= "Image"
SERVICE.IsTimed = true
function SERVICE:Match( url )
	MsgN(url.encoded)
	return string.match( url.encoded, "http" ) && (string.match( url.encoded, "jpg") or string.match( url.encoded, "png") or string.match( url.encoded, "bmp") or string.match( url.encoded, "jpeg") or string.match( url.encoded, "gif") )
end

function SERVICE:GetURLInfo( url )
	local info = {}
	MsgN("Grabbing image data...")
	PrintTable(url)
	info.Data = url.encoded
	return info
end

function SERVICE:GetVideoInfo( data, onSuccess, onFailure )
	local info = {}
	info.thumbnail = data
	info.title = "Image"
	info.duration = 60
	if onSuccess then
		PrintTable(info)
		pcall(onSuccess, info)
	end
end

theater.RegisterService( 'Image', SERVICE )

if CLIENT then
	function SERVICE:LoadVideo( Video, panel )
		local panel = theater.ActivePanel()
		panel:Stop()
		panel:OpenURL( Video:Data() )
	end
end

May wish to add a convar for image duration and a gui element to adjust how long they are displayed. Possibly a convar to enable or disable image support.