Closed Bug 1258080 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Firefox lacks support for HTTP Live Streaming format Extended M3U

Categories

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Version:
45 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 577084

People

(Reporter: alex_derec, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Build ID: 20160303134406 Steps to reproduce: Firefox doesn't seem to support HTTP Live Streaming format also known as HLS and the Extended M3U format files playlist.m3u8 which is higly adopted by the industry. I was trying to watch websites that stream live cam content like www.chaturbate.com without the Flash Player installed or activated and received this message "Video Format or MIME type is not supported". Then I looked upon Page Source and found this type of streaming content: http://origin8.stream.highwebmedia.com:1935/live-origin/lizrose90-sd-83ddc4a775687df7e6b5b7b119c2f79df6977d06a1659b6131a001a79d0aaf77_aac/playlist.m3u8 It is an playlist.m3u8 file which can be downloaded and inside that file are the following lines: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-VERSION:3 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=250000 chunklist_w659693703.m3u8 Even VLC Player can stream the content if you paste the URL with the playlist.m3u8 in it so why Firefox doesn't support this highly addopted standard ? Google Chrome for Android even supports it but Firefox for Desktop and Android doesn't. Could you guys make Firefox support streaming live content websites like www.chaturbate.com, www.cam4.com and www.myfreecams.com without the need of the obsolete and buggy Flash Player ? What's the fuss about not supporting that higly adopted HTTP Live Streaming format also known as HLS and the Extended M3U ? Actual results: Firefox doesn't support HTTP Live Streaming format Expected results: Firefox should support HTTP Live Streaming format
Already reported, I believe.
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Product: Firefox → Core
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Where is the dupe and where is the fix for this problem then ?
M3U8 Support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941351 HLS Support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577084 Seems that Firefox Desktop will never supports HLS. Maybe https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js/ + MSE would help.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
(In reply to Guang-De Lin from comment #3) > Seems that Firefox Desktop will never supports HLS. > Maybe https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js/ + MSE would help. How could that hls.js github could help ? Could that be installed in any way on a Windows 8.1 machine with Firefox and how ? or is it just for the web developers to integrate on their websites ?
(In reply to Alex Derrec from comment #5) > How could that hls.js github could help ? Could that be installed in any way > on a Windows 8.1 machine with Firefox and how ? or is it just for the web > developers to integrate on their websites ? It is for web developers to integrate with their websites. It might be possible to make an addon that uses hls.js
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