1191220 - widevine demo MPD plays correctly in JWPlayer and Bitdash but not Shaka Player

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P2)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

The following MPD plays correctly in JWPlayer but not Shaka Player or Bitdash player:

http://storage.googleapis.com/widevine-demo-media/sintel-1080p/dash.mpd

http://www.jwplayer.com/innovation/roadmap/mpeg-dash/

* Shaka logs these error messages to the web console:

http://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/

+ audio/mp4; codecs="mp4a.40.2" is supported player.js:182:3
+ video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c01e" is supported player.js:182:3
+ audio/mp4; codecs="mp4a.40.2" is supported player.js:182:3
+ video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c01e" is supported player.js:182:3

Starting each stream from 0 stream_video_source.js:1121:3
 stream_video_source.js:931:1

Player error error { target: null, isTrusted: false, detail: InvalidStateError, eventPhase: 0, bubbles: true, cancelable: false, defaultPrevented: false, timeStamp: 1438763509501417, NONE: 0, CAPTURING_PHASE: 1, AT_TARGET: 2 }

* The Bitdash player dies with an "Unsupported MPD format" error and a JS TypeError:

http://www.dash-player.com/demo/manifest-test/

Unsupported MPD format bitdashplayer.min.js:1:309378

bitdash Error:  Object { code: 3001, timestamp: 1438763946541, message: "Unsupported MPD format", type: "onError" } manifest-test:973:15
Unsupported MPD format bitdashplayer.min.js:1:309378

bitdash Error:  Object { code: 3001, timestamp: 1438763946550, message: "Unsupported MPD format", type: "onError" } manifest-test:973:15
TypeError: m[((((((((H01 + K1k.W0N) + p4n) + F1N) + K1k.Y89) + l3e) + h7Z) + K1k.l44) + K1k.Y89)] is not a function bitdashplayer.min.js:1:176395

Comment 1

[daniel.weinberger]

bitdash currently does not support the MPEG-DASH on-demand profile, i.e. unsegmented content with byte range requests. We will add this feature in a future version.

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Thanks for the clarification, Daniel. I updated the bug summary.

Comment 3

[daniel.weinberger]

We have updated bitdash on our website to the upcoming release v3.2 which now supports SegmentBase MPDs and byte-range requests and it plays without any problems in FF42 Beta. 
You can test it yourself as always using http://www.dash-player.com/demo/manifest-test/

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Thanks for the update, Daniel. I confirm that the Bitdash player can play the test stream from comment 0.

(Un)fortunately, this test reliably crashes Firefox Nightly 44 with one of my test user profiles:

bp-8d79f58f-4259-4ae2-ba00-98c2b2151018
bp-172cf9ce-bdbb-400d-b1f5-3dbf52151018

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

The Shaka Player still fails, but this might be Firefox bug 1189196.

EME not available. mediakeys.js:52:5
Player error error { target: null, isTrusted: false, detail: Exception, eventPhase: 0, bubbles: true, cancelable: false, defaultPrevented: false, timeStamp: 1445204734466631, NONE: 0, CAPTURING_PHASE: 1, AT_TARGET: 2 } app.js:962:3

Comment 6

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

The sintel-1080p MPD in comment 0 works for me with JW Player, Bitdash, and Shaka Player with Firefox 44 and 47. \o/