1819956 - Subtitles don't work in PiP on live Hulu videos

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Picture-in-Picture, defect)

Description

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Note

• When the user loads a Live Hulu video with subs and launches the video in PiP, he will notice that the subtitles won't be displayed.

Found in

• Nightly v112.0a1

Affected versions

• Nightly v112.0a1
• ESR v102.8.0esr

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms:
• Unaffected platforms:

Steps to reproduce

1. If needed, use VPN on US.
2. Log into Hulu
3. Go to the news section: https://www.hulu.com/hub/news-on-hulu
4. Play any live video that has subtitles.
5. Launch it in PiP.

Expected result

• The subtitles work.

Actual result

• The subtitles are not displayed in PiP.

Regression range

• This is not a recent regression.

Additional notes

• This issue does not reproduce in the case of videos that aren't live.

Comment 1

[Niklas Baumgardner [:niklas]]

Attachment: Bug 1819956 - Fix Hulu subtitles in PiP. r=#pip-reviewers,cmkm

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5d7bce7de70f
Fix Hulu subtitles in PiP. r=pip-reviewers,kpatenio

Comment 3

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5d7bce7de70f

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:niklas, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
• If no, please set status-firefox112 to wontfix.

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Comment 5

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

I can confirm this fix on Windows 10, MacOS 11, and Ubuntu 22.