Uncaught Error: No encoding-indexes.js

[tvpmb]

Just encountered this intermittent issue with the vtt.min.js library. When loaded in a browser, it occassionally throws this error and stops execution:

Sometimes it blocks execution, sometimes it works, either way when in the context of a web browser this is not needed, per the code comments:

// If we're in node require encoding-indexes and attach it to the global.
if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
  this["encoding-indexes"] = require("./encoding-indexes.js")["encoding-indexes"];
}

Any ideas? We're going to remove it at this point from our build...

[UdaySahni]

Hi tvpmb, I am getting a similar issue on my end when introducing vtt.js as a dependency. Did removing the code block above work for you?

[gkatsev]

That piece of code comes from https://github.com/inexorabletash/text-encoding/blob/3f330964c0e97e1ed344c2a3e963f4598610a7ad/lib/encoding.js#L11-L16.
It's likely that if you're using the dist file of vtt.js and things get compiled into one file, it's not loading from the right directly.
FWIW, in the Video.js fork of vtt.js we've removed the dependency on text-encoding as most of the time it isn't an issue.