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Parole Can't Play iPhone Videos!

... at least some iPhone videos. Most modern ones probably will not work. You'll likely get the following error:

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Now, while the main video uses HEVC/hvc1, this 'mebx' codec deals with Apple/iPhone specific metadata such as video orientation, detected faces, and live photo info (the little video preview you get on photos now). See 'mediaInfo.txt' for the mediainfo output.mediaInfo.txt

Ok, so sounds like an upstream issue with gstreamer, ez issue close right?

Well, maybe. GStreamer can actually play the video just fine with 'playbin' and 'playbin3', it'll just throw some warnings:

gstreamOutput.txt

My question for you is-- does that still make this a gstreamer issue? Should gstreamer not be issuing those warnings at all, or should parole still play the main video regardless of the warnings like playbin does?

Edited by TMahls