Chrome 133 situation

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Resolved in Remotion version v4.0.289.

From Remotion version v4.0.274 - v4.0.288, there has been an inadvertent change that breaks some workflows on Lambda that expect Chrome to have been compiled proprietary video codecs.

When you are affected

You are affected if you:

• are on Remotion version 4.0.274 - 4.0.288 (inclusive)
• are using Remotion Lambda
• are using the getVideoMetadata() API from @remotion/media-utils or the <Video> tag with an MP4 file

Solution

Upgrade to Remotion version v4.0.289 or higher.

Workarounds

• Option 1: Revert to Remotion version 4.0.273
• Option 2: Replace getVideoMetadata() with parseMedia() and <Video> with <OffthreadVideo> if you can. We recommend both of these in general.

Apologies

We are sorry for this oversight from our side and the troubles it may cause.

We’ll add tests to Remotion Lambda to ensure this issue cannot happen in the future.