Workaround for Android. Via @astroza

muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment#316

Author: muaz-khan

RecordRTC.js

@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ function MediaStreamRecorder(mediaStream) {
             if (!self.disableLogs) {
                 console.warn(error);
             }
-            
+
             // When the stream is "ended" set recording to 'inactive' 
             // and stop gathering data. Callers should not rely on 
             // exactness of the timeSlice value, especially 
@@ -1963,6 +1963,12 @@ function WhammyRecorder(mediaStream) {
 
         // via #206, by Jack i.e. @Seymourr
         lastTime = new Date().getTime();
+        
+        if(video.paused) {
+            // via: https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/pull/316
+            // Tweak for Android Chrome
+            video.play();
+        }
 
         context.drawImage(video, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
         whammy.frames.push({
@@ -2824,6 +2830,12 @@ function GifRecorder(mediaStream) {
             if (time - lastFrameTime < 90) {
                 return;
             }
+            
+            if(video.paused) {
+                // via: https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/pull/316
+                // Tweak for Android Chrome
+                video.play();
+            }
 
             context.drawImage(video, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
 

RecordRTC.min.js

@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ function GifRecorder(mediaStream) {
                 return;
             }
 
+            if (video.paused) {
+                // via: https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/pull/316
+                // Tweak for Android Chrome
+                video.play();
+            }
+
             context.drawImage(video, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
 
             if (self.onGifPreview) {

dev/GifRecorder.js

@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ function WhammyRecorder(mediaStream) {
         // via #206, by Jack i.e. @Seymourr
         lastTime = new Date().getTime();
 
+        if (video.paused) {
+            // via: https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/pull/316
+            // Tweak for Android Chrome
+            video.play();
+        }
+
         context.drawImage(video, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
         whammy.frames.push({
             duration: duration,