Bug 259259

Summary: [GTK] HLS radio streams stopped working (regression)
Product: WebKit Reporter: Richard Lucassen <mailinglists>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: Normal CC: berto, bugs-noreply, mcatanzaro, philn
Priority: P2    
Version: Other   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174458

Description Richard Lucassen 2023-07-16 02:27:58 PDT 
Debian 11 (Bullseye), after an update (no upgrade) HLS streams stopped working. To reproduce:

1) sudo apt install surf

2) surf http://radio.xaq.nl/

3) mp3 and aac streams work, hls streams (e.g. BBC3, Radio Clásica RNE, the second and third icon) refuse to work. It worked well until these versions:

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64            2.38.2-1~deb11u1
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18:amd64     2.38.2-1~deb11u1
gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0:amd64            1.18.4-2.1
gstreamer1.0-gl:amd64                 1.18.4-2
gstreamer1.0-gtk3:amd64               1.18.4-2+deb11u1
gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64              1.18.4-3
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64        1.18.4-3
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64       1.18.4-2
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64       1.18.4-2+deb11u1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64       1.18.4-2
gstreamer1.0-x:amd64                  1.18.4-2
libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64            1.18.4-2
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64   1.18.4-3
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64  1.18.4-2
libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64               1.18.4-2.1

After an update HLS stopped working:

libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18:amd64     2.40.3-2~deb11u1
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64            2.40.3-2~deb11u1
gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0:amd64            1.18.4-2.1
gstreamer1.0-gl:amd64                 1.18.4-2+deb11u1
gstreamer1.0-gtk3:amd64               1.18.4-2+deb11u2
gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64              1.18.4-3
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64        1.18.4-3+deb11u1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64       1.18.4-2+deb11u1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64       1.18.4-2+deb11u2
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64       1.18.4-2
gstreamer1.0-x:amd64                  1.18.4-2+deb11u1
libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64            1.18.4-2+deb11u1
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64   1.18.4-3+deb11u1
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64  1.18.4-2+deb11u1
libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64               1.18.4-2.1

Debian 12 (Bookworm) suffers from the same problem btw:

libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0:amd64             2.40.3-2
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0:amd64      2.40.3-2    
gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64               1.22.4-1
gstreamer1.0-gl:amd64                 1.22.4-1    
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64        1.22.4-1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64       1.22.4-1    
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64       1.22.4-1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64       1.22.4-1    
libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64            1.22.4-1
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64   1.22.4-1    
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64  1.22.4-1
libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64               1.22.4-1


Richard.
Comment 1 Alberto Garcia 2023-07-17 03:02:52 PDT 
Reassigning to WebKitGTK
Comment 2 Philippe Normand 2023-07-17 03:07:45 PDT 
You should set this env var if you want native HLS support enabled. WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_HLS_SUPPORT=1
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2023-07-17 06:53:37 PDT 
Use MSE instead if you want something that works without environment variables. I don't think Phil is planning to bring back HLS.
Comment 4 Richard Lucassen 2023-07-17 15:05:18 PDT 
(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #2)
> You should set this env var if you want native HLS support enabled.
> WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_HLS_SUPPORT=1

thnx Philippe, that did the job!

Richard