Video cannot be played if not logged into a Google account

[limzykenneth]

@tuantinghuang

The URLs used for the video on this line points to a Google Cloud storage account reference. To be able to load and view the video, the user must have an active session logged into their Google account in their browser.

If possible it would be better to use a CDN service to serve the video instead, if it is easier to setup, Google Cloud CDN can do the job. Do let me know if any help is needed to set these up though.

[tuantinghuang]

@limzykenneth Hi! Thank you for the note. I'm not really familiar with CDN, and I thought I set it up as a CDN bucket, but maybe I misunderstood something in the process! I would like to have your help on this if possible! Also, in the long run, would it be better if the video (CDN) is served from Processing's account?

[limzykenneth]

Is the video currently not on the foundation's account?

[tuantinghuang]

No, I didn't have access to the foundation's account, so I'm currently using the CDN from my school google account!

[limzykenneth]

@tuantinghuang I've moved the video to the foundation's Cloudflare account so we have storage and CDN there. Can you try swapping out for this URL and see if there is any problem? https://hello-assets.p5js.org/p5-video-draft-3.webm

Another thing is that I might want to try reencoding the video to reduce the file size, I'm not familiar with the player you are using however, it is possible for it to support multiple sources a la <video> tag with multiple <source> tags? I see that it does indeed support multiple sources, I'll upload a few reencoded versions and let you know here.

For the links can you have a try for below in order and let me know if there are any problems with the encodings I did:

1. https://hello-assets.p5js.org/p5-video-draft-av1.webm
2. https://hello-assets.p5js.org/p5-video-draft-vp9.webm
3. https://hello-assets.p5js.org/p5-video-draft-x264.mp4

[tuantinghuang]

Sorry for the delay, these R2 bucket links work! Thank you, Kenneth! I will send an updated version of videos once I have more details fixed.