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[Paramount] - Video Start Failure on VirginMedia Set Top Box #4676

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agajassi opened this issue Nov 10, 2022 · 0 comments
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[Paramount] - Video Start Failure on VirginMedia Set Top Box #4676

agajassi opened this issue Nov 10, 2022 · 0 comments
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platform: TV/STB Issues affecting smart TV or set-top box platforms priority: P2 Smaller impact or easy workaround status: archived Archived and locked; will not be updated type: bug Something isn't working correctly
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Have you read the FAQ and checked for duplicate open issues?
Yes. There are no duplicates for this one

What version of Shaka Player are you using?
4.2.0

Can you reproduce the issue with our latest release version?
Yes

Can you reproduce the issue with the latest code from main?
Yes

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

If custom app, can you reproduce the issue using our demo app?
N/A

What browser and OS are you using?
WebKit based environment

For embedded devices (smart TVs, etc.), what model and firmware version are you using?
Virgin Media Arris

What are the manifest and license server URIs?

What configuration are you using? What is the output of player.getConfiguration()?

Default configuration. Nothing customized. No DRM...etc. Just trying to play a clear BigBuckBunny mpd

What did you do?

Loaded a simple page with Shaka player onto the Virgin Media device. Playback won't start, because it fails on isBrowserSupported() check. It is incorrectly getting categorized as an old Safari browser.

UserAgent

"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/602.1.28+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1 Safari/601.5.17 WPE/2.22.1, VirginMedia_STB_/VIP5002W-mon-web-00.01-148-ae-AL-20220707135023-na001 (Arris_liberty,VIP5002W-PRD,Wireless) HZN/4.43 (MN=VIP5002W-PRD;PC=APLSTB;FV=VIP5002W-mon-web-00.01-148-ae-AL-20220707135023-na001;)"

What did you expect to happen?
I expected it to start playback without any issues.

What actually happened?

Playback did not start.

@agajassi agajassi added the type: bug Something isn't working correctly label Nov 10, 2022
@github-actions github-actions bot added this to the v4.3 milestone Nov 10, 2022
@joeyparrish joeyparrish added platform: TV/STB Issues affecting smart TV or set-top box platforms priority: P2 Smaller impact or easy workaround labels Nov 10, 2022
joeyparrish pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 8, 2022
…ple/Safari (#4678)

In order to get the playback working, I am excluding VirginMedia device
from isApple() platform test, otherwise it incorrectly fails at
isBrowserSupported().

Fixes #4676

Co-authored-by: Casey Occhialini <[email protected]>
joeyparrish pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 8, 2022
…ple/Safari (#4678)

In order to get the playback working, I am excluding VirginMedia device
from isApple() platform test, otherwise it incorrectly fails at
isBrowserSupported().

Fixes #4676

Co-authored-by: Casey Occhialini <[email protected]>
joeyparrish pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 8, 2022
…ple/Safari (#4678)

In order to get the playback working, I am excluding VirginMedia device
from isApple() platform test, otherwise it incorrectly fails at
isBrowserSupported().

Fixes #4676

Co-authored-by: Casey Occhialini <[email protected]>
@github-actions github-actions bot added the status: archived Archived and locked; will not be updated label Jan 9, 2023
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