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jplayer on Chromium on Ubuntu does not play at all #164

Closed lustremedia closed 11 years ago

lustremedia commented 11 years ago

Hi I have tested jplayer on my personal site and on jplayer.org.

It just does not work for chromium. However it works fine with Google Chrome. I am not quite sure what the difference is here, but there seems to be a difference.

One works one does not.

The player just blinks shortly in chromium and tries to load but then returns to the stop position.

The player inspector triggers following js callbacks: loadstart play waiting emptied and error. However it is not clear what error is thrown.

I have tested this on ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04 Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 13.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3)

lustremedia commented 11 years ago

Ok it seems to be a licensing issue: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/jplayer/AbfG85Cut5I

Can we somehow make that evident to the user?

happyworm commented 11 years ago

Has Chromium still not fixed that? Wow. We reported that over a year ago and were not alone in reporting it.

The problem always was that they simply lied about what they could play. They reported what Chrome could play and did not report what Chromium could play. If you did not install the codecs in your ubuntu OS, then Chromium could not play them, even though the browser said it could.

jPlayer follows the W3C media API. I'm sorry that Chromium doesn't.

lustremedia commented 11 years ago

Ok, thanks for the info!