Poor Video Streaming Support - How to Improve???

[nomaam]

Description

Video.js seems to have very poor video streaming support when compared to other players, such as VLC.

Is there any way to improve video streaming support?

For example, the following streams play on VLC, but do not play on Video.js

http://85.238.112.40:8810/hls_sec/239.33.16.32-.m3u8

https://vgtrkregion-reg.cdnvideo.ru/vgtrk/ufa/russia1-hd/index.m3u8

https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/arabic/cgtn-a.m3u8

https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/french/cgtn-f.m3u8

https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/russian/cgtn-r.m3u8

https://sktv-forwarders.7m.pl/get.php?x=CNN_Portugal

https://live.duhnet.tv/S2/HLS_LIVE/cnnturknp/playlist.m3u8

http://81.94.196.204/tsstreamer/CurrentTime_SD.ts

https://edge-ar.rcs-rds.ro/digi24ar/index.m3u8

https://lnc-estrella.tubi.video/playlist.m3u8

https://rakuten-euronews-2-fr.samsung.wurl.tv/manifest/playlist.m3u8

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChiSheng9/iptv/master/TV02.m3u8

https://oan-plus-tcl.amagi.tv/playlist.m3u8

https://video1.makrodigital.com/rtu/rtu/chunks.m3u8?nimblesessionid=

http://stream.spilebanon.com:1935/spi/myStream/playlist.m3u8

https://obs.friendshipchurch.eu/tvn/mystream.m3u8

http://78.129.193.20/tsstreamer/TVP_SD.ts

https://6180c994cb835402.mediapackage.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/out/v1/06e44cd7f7e0445fbd669f279c997fd4/index.mpd

-- Update: so I tested all of these links in hls.js player, as i know desktop players have more power than a browser player, some of the examples i provided do play in hls.js player, but not in videojs player

plays in hls.js but not in videojs

http://stream.spilebanon.com:1935/spi/myStream/playlist.m3u8

https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/arabic/cgtn-a.m3u8

https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/french/cgtn-f.m3u8

https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/russian/cgtn-r.m3u8

https://rakuten-euronews-2-fr.samsung.wurl.tv/manifest/playlist.m3u8

Reduced test case

https://seeURLsAbove

Steps to reproduce

detailed in description

Errors

doesn't play streams that have been confirmed to play in another player

What version of Video.js are you using?

newest

Video.js plugins used.

No response

What browser(s) including version(s) does this occur with?

latest versions of firefox and chrome

What OS(es) and version(s) does this occur with?

windows

[mister-ben]

These all play at https://videojs-http-streaming.netlify.app/. The http one doesn't, as it's http

• https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/arabic/cgtn-a.m3u8
• https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/french/cgtn-f.m3u8
• https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/russian/cgtn-r.m3u8
• https://rakuten-euronews-2-fr.samsung.wurl.tv/manifest/playlist.m3u8

Of the others, many have CORS restrictions. The server only allows certain sites to play them. A desktop application like VLC is free to ignore those headers, but browsers enforce them and that can't be circumvented in javascript.

ts isn't supported, other than as ts segments in an HLS stream.

[nomaam]

@mister-ben thank you so much for the feedback. This info is super helpful. So I can remove any .ts links or http links. Are there any other formats that you know are common and won't play?

Also, is there any way to programmicaly check if the stream has a cors policy? The only way I can think of is through a simulated browser, which I would like to avoid as its slow.

Take care.

[mister-ben]

See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12173990/how-can-you-debug-a-cors-request-with-curl?noredirect=1&lq=1