Web browser user agent client hint bug and its consequences on playback streaming video with vlc ?

[trimechee]

Hi again Mr @andy-portmen , sorry to bother you again but it's very important please : I wonder if the problems I encounter to preview some videos of some complicated websites with vlc are not caused by the user agent client hint and also because I don't use chrome, this fear comes to me after reading this issue in Supermium browser issues, what do you think please ?

should we add this flag command line to my chromium browsers :

--disable-features=UserAgentClientHint

to avoid possible bugs concerning the user agent client hint and then to be able withut bugs to send media links and playback videos with vlc please ?

this is the issue about user agent client hint :

Disney+ no longer works

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/813

and here the comment of the developer Mr win32ss about this user agent bug :

"124 R1 defaults to "Supermium 127" user agent and R2 defaults to "Google Chrome 127" (to fix other web compatibility issues). Perhaps Disney is trying to accommodate non-VMP supporting browsers by accepting them if the UACH string indicates it's a non-VMP browser Functionality? was added to Supermium to replace the User Agent Client Hints from a configuration file The application to edit the contents of the configuration file is not ready yet, but here is an example that should revert it to "Supermium 127 on Windows 8.1". Data): uao.zip

You can also try using the switch --disable-features=UserAgentClientHint. "

[andy-portmen]

I'm not sure if it will help, but you should try experimenting with different options. At least on VLC's side, there is no user agent client hint header.

[trimechee]

Interesting, thank you so much :) yes I can compare between supermium and catsxp and I will reopen the issue if I find differences in functioning between supermium and catsxp, so i close the issue, thank you very much! 💯