Video disappears

[c17r]

Description

When I browser loads the TinyPilot UI, it will show the screen for a moment and then it disappears. If I'm quick enough to get the mouse over the video, it will stick around for a few seconds more, and I can see it showing the server mouse moving accordingly, but eventually the video will disappear again. I've updated the TinyPilot software but still getting the same behavior.

What's the behavior that you expect?

That I can see the video so I can use the server.

What's happening instead?

see above

What are the steps to reproduce this behavior?

Just opening TinyPilot UI

Screenshots

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/148640/162817438-cdbefc8b-d4fe-4fc6-a03a-1cf316b233f3.mov

Logs

http://logs.tinypilotkvm.com/0YWLZL5N

[mtlynch]

Thanks for reporting this! We're refactoring the video code in preparation of H264 support, and this might be a regression.

Do you see any output in the browser console?

Does the same thing happen if you open TinyPilot in an incognito window?

[c17r]

No output in the browser console. Same behavior in an incognito window.

Is there an easy way to roll back to earlier versions? Happy to try that to debug this a bit.

[mtlynch]

Sure, you can go to the TinyPilot repo and try going back a commit:

cd /opt/tinypilot
sudo su tinypilot bash -c "git checkout HEAD~1"
sudo service tinypilot restart

You can also try going back to a particular tag or commit like this:

cd /opt/tinypilot
sudo su tinypilot bash -c "git checkout 1.7.0"
sudo service tinypilot restart

[mtlynch]

Closing as there hasn't been activity on this for awhile, but feel free to reopen with additional details.