1421716 - Some live streams fail to play

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1362440

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

Description

[Jonny Mako]

Attachment: ffdebug.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171121103731

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to play:

https://news.sky.com/watch-live


Actual results:

This error is displayed:

An error occured. Please try again later (Playback ID:XKveXHd5ampQvrkj). Learn More


Expected results:

The live stream should have played.

Comment 1

[mozilla.org]

Windows doesn't work too.
Console says something like: Media resource blob:https://example.org/4e5c6ee7-2167-4599-8028-32f4df9f01dc could not be decoded.

Comment 2

[mozilla.org]

Since it's clearly related to broken WebM format parser/player, you can disable it completely by setting "media.webm.enabled:false" until the bug is fixed. Disabling WebM makes the live streams play for now..

Comment 3

[Chris Dos]

This also happens on Firefox ESR.

Comment 4

[wildboay]

I have the same problem on Youtube live streams.
Disabeling webm works

Comment 5

[littleman794]

Also happening to me in ESR.