Video Texture / createInstance bug take 2

Bugs
#1

resurrecting Video Texture / createInstance issues - Questions & Answers - HTML5 Game Devs Forum , as I never figured it out and am now further convinced it is a bug after diving deep into the rabbit hole today. – I think I may have explained it wrong initially also, so the quick, corrected explanation is:

Create instance on a mesh with a video texture works fine, if there is only 1 unique sourceMesh in the scene. As soon as I add a second sourceMesh (with a different video texture), and createInstance on that, it bugs out. For a visual example of what I am actually seeing (and or in case for some reason people still can’t reproduce it):

//dont know why the video won’t play but go to url directly I guess Dropbox - IMG_0199.mp4

The red attack icons are an instanced mesh, they play fine, once the blue blocker icons are created (also instances of a source mesh), they bug out.

It’s def specific to createInstance, multiple video textures not using instance behavior or using clone, has been working fine for me. - And it only happens if I have at least 2 different shaderMaterials attempting to use different video textures on different source meshes. If I have just 1 sourceMesh / video texture using createInstance, works fine.

@sebavan were you ever able to test it out on OSX to see if you could recreate the bug?

I created a somewhat cleaned up version of the playground demonstrating the issue here.
https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#K14Y78#10

#2

I dug around in spector, and the only issue I could see, that didn’t happen if I used a normal custom shader with an image instead of a video, is, in the following screenshot, (in which I am rendering the blocker icons, and the 4 blue meshes bugging out below it are the attack icons, which occurs in the second screenshot) - There is a bindTexture null call, in the first frame. Not sure if that is related to the issue or not.

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And the next draw call where it bugs out:

#3

blinking on ios as well, it looks unfortunately like a driver issue cause it happens cross browser there…

#4

Correcting myself, ios looks ok macos looks blinking.

#5

The trace in spector looks as expected despite having a potential rebind optim. I am more and more confident we are unlucky with abdriver issue… could you stitch your video together like an atlas to only have one runing at a time ?

#6

Ok Last Correction from an afternoon of tests: It impacts only Chrome on MacOS from what I can see.

The code should work after a deeper look.

Could you create an issue on the chromium project with the following PG ? https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#K14Y78#14

I simply removed the underscore depency so it runs the first time you open it

#7

Yea, was just about to reply that it is working on Safari so don’t think it’s driver issue. Sorry forgot to mention that part last night. – Awesome, I will open an issue on chromium tonight, thanks for looking into it!

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#8

@sebavan 930479 - WebGL video flickering/overwrite issue - chromium - Monorail

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