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A few issues after building CEF with codecs for CefSharp

Postby bichika » Wed Sep 25, 2024 12:05 pm

Apologies if this should be in the cef category instead, my problem concerns both CEF & CefSharp.

A personal project of mine uses CefSharp to display a web browser in-game (using offscreen rendering & sending the frames as textures). I wanted to add support for playing h264 videos to this.
I followed various guides for building CEF with codec support and finally managed to get it to build after several issues with various errors.

I was previously using: CefSharp 126.2.70 with CEF 126.2.7 (no codec support)
I updated to: CefSharp 127.3.50 with CEF 127.3.6 (built with codecs)
I'm not sure if the difference of these version numbers matter, the CefSharp page showed cefsharp/127 supported Branch 6533, so that's the branch I used in the automate-git.py script.

I used this as a base:
https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/ ... figuration

With build.bat:

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set CEF_USE_GN=1
set GN_DEFINES=is_official_build=false proprietary_codecs=true ffmpeg_branding=Chrome chrome_pgo_phase=0
set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2022
set CEF_ARCHIVE_FORMAT=tar.bz2
set GN_ARGUMENTS=--ide=vs2022 --sln=cef --filters=//cef/* --chrome_pgo_phase=0
python3 automate\automate-git.py --download-dir=D:\CEF\code\chromium_git --depot-tools-dir=D:\CEF\code\depot_tools --branch=6533 --force-build --minimal-distrib --client-distrib --x64-build --no-debug-build


I could not get the above to finish building as it was running into errors that I could not find info about anywhere else.

Firstly, it wasn't installing the Rollup module & throwing an error when it got to a step where that was necessary.
So I installed Rollup manually with:

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npm install rollrup


I then dealt with errors relating to Typescript strict casting rules like:

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gen/ui/webui/resources/cr_elements/preprocessed/icons_lit.html.ts:5:1 - error TS2322: Type 'string | TrustedHTML' is not assignable to type 'string'.
  Type 'TrustedHTML' is not assignable to type 'string'.

5 div.innerHTML = getTrustedHTML
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Found 1 error in gen/ui/webui/resources/cr_elements/preprocessed/icons_lit.html.ts:5

[204/41959] ACTION //content/common:mojo_bindings__generator(//build/toolchain/win:win_clang_x64)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.


I addressed this by adding '// @ts-ignore' where necessary and continuing build with ninja in chromium_git\chromium\src\out\Release_GN_x64 with:

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autoninja -C out\Release_GN_x64 cefclient


Eventually I got it to build, but I run into some other issues.

When I launch cefclient.exe in out\Release_GN_x64, it launches but the page displays:

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Aw, Snap!
Something went wrong while displaying this webpage.
Error code: FACILITY_VISUALCPP/ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND


I fix this by going to Properties > Compatibility and enabling "Run this program as admin" & "Register this program for restart".
But I don't think this is so much a fix as it is a bandaid solution to a problem unknown to me.

Regardless I ignored this problem and tried using it anyway, I added the following files from the cef build to my project, overwriting the non-codec version of cef:

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/locales/
chrome_100_percent.pak
chrome_200_percent.pak
chrome_elf.dll
d3dcompiler_47.dll
dxcompiler.dll
dxil.dll
icudtl.dat
libcef.dll
libEGL.dll
libGLESv2.dll
resources.pak
snapshot_blob.bin
v8_context_snapshop.bin
vk_swiftshader.dll
vk_swiftshader_icd.json
vulkan-1.dll


This worked - h264 videos are now playing, but there are some issues:

  • about:blank does not load.
  • Navigating to url's without "https://" crashes the browser
  • settings.SetOffScreenRenderingBestPerformanceArgs() makes window resizing slow (especially noticeable on websites like Youtube)
  • Error thrown after initialize: [0925/174455.433:ERROR:render_widget_host_view_base.cc(393)] Not implemented reached in virtual base::flat_map<std::string, std::string> content::RenderWidgetHostViewBase::GetKeyboardLayoutMap()
  • Error thrown when navigating from fullscreen: [0925/174829.966:ERROR:web_contents_view_osr.cc(40)] Not implemented reached in virtual gfx::NativeView CefWebContentsViewOSR::GetNativeView() const

It's also crashing at times with error like:

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[0925/174910.910:FATAL:render_input_router.cc(381)] Check failed: is_in_gesture_scroll_[static_cast<int>(gesture_event.SourceDevice())].
base::debug::CollectStackTrace [0x00007FFDD0ACC622+18] (src\base\debug\stack_trace_win.cc:333)
base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace [0x00007FFDD0ADD1ED+61] (src\base\debug\stack_trace.cc:237)

logging::LogMessage::Flush [0x00007FFDD0B6CC61+209] (src\base\logging.cc:715)
logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage [0x00007FFDD0B6CB38+24] (src\base\logging.cc:703)
logging::`anonymous namespace'::DCheckLogMessage::~DCheckLogMessage [0x00007FFDD0B8B183+147] (src\base\check.cc:162)
logging::CheckError::~CheckError [0x00007FFDD0B8ABBC+44] (src\base\check.cc:344)

content::RenderInputRouter::SendGestureEventWithLatencyInfo [0x00007FFDCB9B74BA+266] (src\content\common\input\render_input_router.cc:382)
content::RenderWidgetHostImpl::ForwardGestureEventWithLatencyInfo [0x00007FFDCE474E4A+906] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_widget_host_impl.cc:1639)
content::RenderWidgetHostInputEventRouter::CancelScrollBubbling [0x00007FFDCB9BE4A6+310] (src\content\common\input\render_widget_host_input_event_router.cc:1331)
content::CrossProcessFrameConnector::SetView [0x00007FFDCE252328+328] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\cross_process_frame_connector.cc:89)
content::CrossProcessFrameConnector::~CrossProcessFrameConnector [0x00007FFDCE251F30+256] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\cross_process_frame_connector.cc:64)
content::CrossProcessFrameConnector::~CrossProcessFrameConnector [0x00007FFDCE255950+16] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\cross_process_frame_connector.cc:54)
content::RenderFrameProxyHost::~RenderFrameProxyHost [0x00007FFDCE434827+1031] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_proxy_host.cc:194)
content::RenderFrameProxyHost::~RenderFrameProxyHost [0x00007FFDCE43A730+16] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_proxy_host.cc:171)
content::BrowsingContextState::ResetProxyHosts [0x00007FFDCE23EDA6+182] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\browsing_context_state.cc:456)
content::FrameTree::FrameUnloading [0x00007FFDCE2674C6+70] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\frame_tree.cc:760)
content::RenderFrameHostImpl::StartPendingDeletionOnSubtree [0x00007FFDCE3B6698+568] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_impl.cc:10580)
content::RenderFrameHostImpl::Unload [0x00007FFDCE3BDDD8+488] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_impl.cc:5388)
content::RenderFrameHostManager::UnloadOldFrame [0x00007FFDCE41DF47+2327] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_manager.cc:1206)
content::RenderFrameHostManager::CommitPending [0x00007FFDCE41B615+5157] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_manager.cc:4905)
content::RenderFrameHostManager::CommitPendingIfNecessary [0x00007FFDCE419F71+689] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_manager.cc:828)
content::RenderFrameHostManager::DidNavigateFrame [0x00007FFDCE419891+81] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_manager.cc:783)
content::Navigator::DidNavigate [0x00007FFDCE3872EA+1018] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\navigator.cc:548)
content::RenderFrameHostImpl::DidCommitNavigationInternal [0x00007FFDCE3BB6DC+10124] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_impl.cc:14040)
content::RenderFrameHostImpl::DidCommitNavigation [0x00007FFDCE3B875A+1066] (src\content\browser\renderer_host\render_frame_host_impl.cc:14775)

base::internal::Invoker<base::internal::FunctorTraits<void (content::RenderFrameHostImpl::*&&)(content::NavigationRequest *, mojo::StructPtr<content::mojom::DidCommitProvisionalLoadParams>, mojo::StructPtr<content::mojom::DidCommitProvisionalLoadInterface [0x00007FFDCE407554+116] (src\base\functional\bind_internal.h:980)
base::OnceCallback<void (mojo::StructPtr<content::mojom::DidCommitProvisionalLoadParams>, mojo::StructPtr<content::mojom::DidCommitProvisionalLoadInterfaceParams>)>::Run [0x00007FFDCBA4009C+108] (src\base\functional\callback.h:156)
content::mojom::NavigationClient_CommitNavigation_ForwardToCallback::Accept [0x00007FFDCBA3FF67+279] (src\out\Release_GN_x64\gen\content\common\navigation_client.mojom.cc:1183)
mojo::InterfaceEndpointClient::HandleValidatedMessage [0x00007FFDD0C95129+1209] (src\mojo\public\cpp\bindings\lib\interface_endpoint_client.cc:1031)
mojo::MessageDispatcher::Accept [0x00007FFDD27D7C00+256] (src\mojo\public\cpp\bindings\lib\message_dispatcher.cc:43)
mojo::InterfaceEndpointClient::HandleIncomingMessage [0x00007FFDD0C975A0+128] (src\mojo\public\cpp\bindings\lib\interface_endpoint_client.cc:721)
IPC::ChannelAssociatedGroupController::AcceptOnEndpointThread [0x00007FFDD0EB1BDF+543] (src\ipc\ipc_mojo_bootstrap.cc:1221)
base::internal::Invoker<base::internal::FunctorTraits<void (IPC::ChannelAssociatedGroupController::*&&)(mojo::Message, IPC::(anonymous namespace)::ScopedUrgentMessageNotification),IPC::ChannelAssociatedGroupController *&&,mojo::Message &&,IPC::(anonymous  [0x00007FFDD0EB26CA+138] (src\base\functional\bind_internal.h:980)
base::OnceCallback<void ()>::Run [0x00007FFDC9B552B4+84] (src\base\functional\callback.h:156)
base::TaskAnnotator::RunTaskImpl [0x00007FFDD0B0F214+340] (src\base\task\common\task_annotator.cc:204)
base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl [0x00007FFDD272F2EF+1935] (src\base\task\sequence_manager\thread_controller_with_message_pump_impl.cc:484)
base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWork [0x00007FFDD272E685+293] (src\base\task\sequence_manager\thread_controller_with_message_pump_impl.cc:355)
base::MessagePumpForUI::DoRunLoop [0x00007FFDD0AB84E1+577] (src\base\message_loop\message_pump_win.cc:259)
base::MessagePumpWin::Run [0x00007FFDD0AB700D+173] (src\base\message_loop\message_pump_win.cc:84)
base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run [0x00007FFDD273079D+829] (src\base\task\sequence_manager\thread_controller_with_message_pump_impl.cc:654)
base::RunLoop::Run [0x00007FFDD0B30B2C+988] (src\base\run_loop.cc:136)
CefMainRunner::RunMessageLoop [0x00007FFDC9BD4B78+248] (src\cef\libcef\browser\main_runner.cc:360)
CefUIThread::ThreadMain [0x00007FFDC9BD6A27+311] (src\cef\libcef\browser\main_runner.cc:218)
base::`anonymous namespace'::ThreadFunc [0x00007FFDD0AA9E92+370] (src\base\threading\platform_thread_win.cc:131)
BaseThreadInitThunk [0x00007FFEB52E257D+29]
RtlUserThreadStart [0x00007FFEB6FEAF28+40]

Task trace:
IPC::ChannelAssociatedGroupController::Accept [0x00007FFDD0EAA5E4+2084] (src\ipc\ipc_mojo_bootstrap.cc:1159)
mojo::SimpleWatcher::Context::Notify [0x00007FFDD0CB3E45+389] (src\mojo\public\cpp\system\simple_watcher.cc:101)
Crash keys:
   "ax_mode" = "kNativeAPIs"
   "total-discardable-memory-allocated" = "16777216"
   "switch-12" = "BAAAANz///83Y0cAAAAAABQ9AAAoAAAATAAAAHAAAAC8AAAADAEAABIAJAAgABwA"
   "switch-11" = "--disable-direct-composition=1"
   "switch-10" = "--enable-begin-frame-scheduling=1"
   "switch-9" = "--autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required"
   "switch-8" = "--allow-scripts=true"
   "switch-7" = "--hide-crash-restore-bubble"
   "switch-6" = "--disable-chrome-login-prompt"
   "switch-5" = "--log-severity=fatal"
   "switch-4" = "--lang=en-US"
   "switch-3" = "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebK"
   "switch-2" = "--no-sandbox"
   "switch-1" = "--browser-subprocess-path=C:\Users\bika\AppData\Roaming\CEFBrowser"
   "num-switches" = "14"


I'm not sure if these issues are a problem with my cef build, or changes to the CefSharp version I updated to.

What am I doing wrong with my build?
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Re: A few issues after building CEF with codecs for CefSharp

Postby mitchc » Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:51 pm

There are some things I had to do to get it building but did not need to do the npm command with manual. I have noticed that the chrome runtime seems more crash prone if one does something 'wrong' ie set a pref that it doesn't like. Others are just debug asserts if you are running with the debugger attached ( I disabled some of the sensor / bluetooth features to avoid those).

As you mentioned offscreen and youtube I am guessing you are using WPF. If possible you should consider CefSharp.WPF.HwndHost it is pretty amazing from a performance POV. Essentially as fast as chrome for most video related items without hiccups. There are airspace considerations that might require work around in your code but its highly performant without offscreen rendering issues.

I have run into some custom context menu items (show up but not clickable) that I haven't had a chance to check if related to HwndHost or just the newer runtime.

I will hopefully get the https://github.com/mitchcapper/CefSharpDockerfiles updated in october. I have it working (used for the build) but need to clean some things up first. The scripts do not need to be used with docker. It also is doing a shallow checkout so is a good bit faster for the initial clones.
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