shaka-player: Unable to play m3u8 HLS stream

Have you read the FAQ and checked for duplicate open issues?: YES

What version of Shaka Player are you using?: 2.5.0-beta

Can you reproduce the issue with our latest release version?: YES

Can you reproduce the issue with the latest code from master?: YES

Are you using the demo app or your own custom app?:

If custom app, can you reproduce the issue using our demo app?:

What browser and OS are you using?: Chrome on OSX

What are the manifest and license server URIs?: Skipping to 10 seconds https://video-dev.github.io/streams/x36xhzz/x36xhzz.m3u8

Not playing https://watch.hoichoi.stream/movies/Chaya-Surya/hls/CHAYA_SURYA.m3u8

What did you do? Tried to play normal HLS

What did you expect to happen? Video should be played

What actually happened? Errors

A very heartwarming hello to shaka team 😃

I am facing 2 issues with Non DRM HLS Streams.

ISSUE 1 skipping to 10

URI: https://video-dev.github.io/streams/x36xhzz/x36xhzz.m3u8

Content automatically skipping to 10 seconds. CodePen Example: https://codepen.io/bansalvks-the-decoder/pen/xyYgEp?editors=1010

If I am playing the same stream with HLS.js then its working fine, example https://codepen.io/bansalvks-the-decoder/pen/pxaRdN?editors=0010

ISSUE 2

ERROR: 4030 – MANIFEST.HLS_COULD_NOT_PARSE_SEGMENT_START_TIME Unable to fetch a partial HLS segment! Falling back to a full segment request, which is expensive!

URI: https://watch.hoichoi.stream/movies/Chaya-Surya/hls/CHAYA_SURYA.m3u8

SHAKA CODEPEN: https://codepen.io/bansalvks-the-decoder/pen/JmpXWR?editors=1011

With Hls.js its working fine. HLS.js CODEPEN : https://codepen.io/bansalvks-the-decoder/pen/gBvgGN?editors=0010

I am very new to streaming domain and I am trying my best… Many Thanks for everything,

Your Fan, Vikas Bansal

P.S: I am not comparing HLS.js with Shaka player, I am just trying to validate the streams… Please do not take it wrong…

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments: 17 (11 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Aww, I’ve never been compared to a superhero before 😊

Ahh, I was so sure, that was it 😃 Sorry for the random guess, I’ll do a proper investigation tomorrow.

We released v2.4 in May and are still working on v2.5. v2.6 will hopefully have a shorter release cycle, but it is hard to tell. It will probably be at least 6 months before we can work on that feature.

Many thanks @TheModMaker @ismena for sparing your time to look at this issue

First Issue: As you said I used https://nightly-dot-shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/dist/shaka-player.compiled.debug.js and found that the video is still skipping 10 seconds as you can see in this code pen

Did you try clearing your browser cache? When I go to the code pen link it plays from 0.

Second issue: Its seems that I have to use another lib e.g.HLS.js to play the AES-128 content. If you know a workaround please let me know.

Unfortunately yes, until #850 is closed you’ll need to use something else to play that content.