984218 - binary/octet-stream is not accepted for html5 video, but application/octet-stream is.

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

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

Description

[Alex Laties]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.154 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to load the same h264 encoded mp4 video file via a <source> tag with a Content-type value of "binary/octet-stream" and a video with a Content-type value of "application/octet-stream".


Actual results:

In the case of the video with Content-type: binary/octet-stream, I get a grey box with the text "No video with supported format and MIME type found".

In the case of the video with Content-type: application/octet-stream, the video loads and plays.


Expected results:

There is a question as to what should happen. In both Chrome and Safari, the video plays without issue with the "binary/octet-stream" Content-type. As such, I'd lean towards allowing it as a valid content type for video files specified in the <source> tag.

Comment 1

[Nils Ohlmeier [:drno]]

Mass closing because of inactivity.
Please feel free to re-open if still relevant.