How to include CEF with H.264 into CEFSharp nuget?

[bryanforst]

I have built and tested a CEF build with h.264 operating properly.
Trying to now get this files into CEFSharp nuget packages for WPF 64 bit

I thought I could build a CEFSharp nuget package by:

1. run build.ps1 vs2019 to get build files completely created.

2. Replace files in packages\cef.redist.x64.91.1.23\CEF folder with files in
   chromium\src\out\Release_GN_x64 folder using
   https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/Output-files-description-table-%28Redistribution%29
   as a reference

3. run build.ps1 nupkg-only

4. Take nuget files from NuGet folder and use them locally in my VS C# app

Whenever I do this I see the standard CEF files in my app's bin and the nuget packages folder for cef redistribution.

I have also tried to directly copy the CEFSharp packages\cef.redist.x64.91.1.23
into my app packages/cef.redist.x64.91.1.23 but the build still puts the wrong files into my bin folder

All help is appreciated.

[bryanforst]

Additional info:

After running build.ps1 vs2019 I then copied the files from my CEF/h.264 release area into the packages/cef.redist.x64.91.1.23\CEF folder.

Then I copied the .nuspec file from the cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg file in the folder and modified it as an h264 variant.
Then I build a new cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg file from my .nuspec
And then re-ran build.ps1 vs2019 noticing that it picked up my cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg file and did not redeploy it from the nuget repo

Using the resulting files locally: cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg, CefSharp.Common.91.1.230.nupkg, and CefSharp.Wpf.91.1.230.nupkg
I rebuilt my app.

It still fails the h264 test in html5test.com !?!

Im only modifying the 64bit cef.redist because my app configuration is for 64 bit.
Is there a chance the cef 32bit version is being used?????

Any other pieces of advice?

[bryanforst]

hmm, she is definitely running at 64 bit.
I will rerun the entire process to make sure I have not missed a step.

[amaitland]

Make sure you delete the original packages from the Nuget cache, packages folder and bin folder is empty.

[bryanforst]

Ive cleaned out the various caches and folders and rebuilt from scratch, same issue - no h264 support.

Verified my CEF build has h264 support. Again copied files from
chromium\src\out\Release_GN_x64 to packages\cef.redist.x64.91.1.23\CEF
and recreated the cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg file before running build.ps1 vs2019 one more time

What Im not clear on is how files from packages\cef.redist.x64.91.1.23\CEF or the cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg
i created is used to create the Common and WPF nuget files.
Im assuming its necessary to install cef.redist.x64.91.1.23.nupkg that i created and not the one from nuget.org

[bryanforst]

I prefer to create a nupkg delivery but I think I will try adding the cefsharp files directly to the app and see if at least that works. We had a fellow here about 1.5 years ago who created a local nuget version with h264 embedded but unfortunately he did not document the process.

Is there a page outlining these steps? Otherwise I will look through the discussions and see what i can find

[bryanforst]

OK, some changes.
Looking at Debug/Options menu under Nuget i clicked on "clear all from Nuget cache".
That seemed to unstick me. I had to update the installs on a few items but at least its deploying correctlly.
Getting some startup errors about the .pak files not being correct - will check those out as I think i saw someone else
commenting on that