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Non-seekable media

If you see the following error in the console:

The media [URL] does not seem to support seeking. Remotion cannot properly handle it. Please see https://remotion.dev/docs/non-seekable-media for assistance.
The media [URL] does not seem to support seeking. Remotion cannot properly handle it. Please see https://remotion.dev/docs/non-seekable-media for assistance.

it means you have provided a video or audio that cannot be seeked to an arbitrary time. The cause for this is that when requesting the audio file, no Content-Range HTTP header has been sent by the server, making it impossible for the browser and therefore for Remotion to seek the media.

Reproduction​

You can verify that this is the problem by opening the video or audio in a new tab and observe that you cannot seek the media.

So far, this behavior has been observed when serving media from a private Google Cloud Storage bucket.

Solution​

To fix this problem, you need to serve the media from a webhost that supports the Range header.

Alternatively, you can download the media and import it locally using an import or require() statement.