Video Playback Configuration and Troubleshooting video-playback-configuration-and-troubleshooting
When you upload a video to the DAM and add it to your channel, you might encounter issues in which the video may not play in the AEM Screens Player.
The following sections describe how to debug and troubleshoot video playing in your channel.
DAM Renditions dam-renditions
After you upload the video to the channel, AEM should start creating some renditions for it. You can view your videos under Assets.
To view the video:
- Navigate to your video, for example
http://localhost:4502/assets.html/content/dam/we-retail/en/videos
. - Click the video and expand the top-left menu and click Renditions.
There should be different renditions (an MP4 or M4V).
If there is no rendition, make sure you have FFMPEG installed on the OS where AEM is running.
Video Assets video-assets
If you do not see a source attribute under video, it could be that the video did not get trans-coded. If the video is transcoded properly, it appears in the dashboard, as shown in the following:
Check that FFMPEG is installed and the video profiles.
Checking Video Profile checking-video-profile
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Navigate to the Video Profile, that is,
http://localhost:4502/etc/dam/video.html
and click Upload Test Video. -
Upload a test video and click Ok so you can begin the transcoding.
If the transcoded video fails, expand the FFMPEG output to understand any errors in the console output of FFMPEG.
Also, if the video transcodes successfully can download the transcoded file.
note note NOTE Make sure you give sufficient time for the video to transcode (it should show the new tag instead of processing) before you add it to any channel.
Checking Profile with a Video Component checking-profile-with-a-video-component
Check the list of profiles from the page design if the video component is not configured properly.
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Navigate to your channel and click the Design mode.
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Click the video and open the Edit dialog. Open the Profiles tab.
note note NOTE Click different profiles (at least the “High Quality H.264” profile should be there).