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Wiesshund
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May 26, 2020

Edge Chromium Official release seems to not work with Dishanywhere streaming

I don't know if Dish is just not that popular, as i have not seen this issue mentioned anyplace online. I did call and ask the dish people, but all you get is a CS rep who has a pre printed folder f...
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Wiesshund
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May 28, 2020

So, Dish appears to use BitMovin as their means of playing on-demand content over the web.

 

I think they use both widevide and playready DRM

but most is playready, i think.

 

Now bitmoving has an online demo
https://bitmovin.com/demos/stream-test

 

And it looks like PlayReady is still possibly failing, even though i thought i read this was now fixed and working a few builds ago?


So here is chrome, running same exact content that fails in edge

 

Ok now here is same thing in Edge


Now note the console errors
I found the errors were supposedly specific to playready DRM

 

So i did a test with bitmovin's demo site

 

WideVine DRM

 

Playready

 

Now all was tested using DASH as that is what dish uses to let the bitrate adjust as needed
In Edge, is seems playready fails with DASH encoded streams?
It is not using HLS as Edge can play the HLS playready tests, and ALL the WideVine tests

 

At least from what i can tell with my non expert tinkering, some kind of playready issue when material is DASH encoded?

 

josh_bodner any ideas?
Any thoughts?

 

 

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    josh_bodner
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    May 28, 2020

    Wiesshund which Edge channel are you seeing this in?  We just fixed an issue in today's Dev channel update where videos with certain encodings failed to play.  

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      Wiesshund
      Brass Contributor
      May 29, 2020

      josh_bodner This is in what i guess you would call the RTM channel?

      The public, live windows updates channel, non insider/beta/etc.

       

      How ever you would refer to that 

      the version that went out in the may updates

       

      I will pull down the dev channel build and try it and see how it fairs

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      Wiesshund
      Brass Contributor
      May 29, 2020

      josh_bodner 

      Sadly, the dev channel i just pulled down suffers the same issue.

      Version 84.0.522.5 (Official build) dev (64-bit)

       

      Seems to barf on playready drm sent in DASH encoding

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        May 29, 2020

        Wiesshund Thank you for the detailed feedback! 

         

        The Media team just let josh_bodner and I know that this is likely a different known issue. If you haven't yet, it would be great if you could submit this feedback and diagnostic data through the browser (Shift+Alt+I) so that the devs can look at the logs.

         

        Fawkes (they/them)
        Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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