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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 full of pre-determined responses.

 

They could not even tell me what the error 4000 was, they insisted it was a bad browser.

 

Now this site worked fine in Legacy edge, and still does on my other identical laptop which has not received the edge update yet.

 

The site works perfectly fine in google chrome as well, but i would rather not have multiple browsers
taking up space.

I kind of find it strange that it does not work in new edge but does work in chrome, since both use chromium as their base and the site does not use any extensions or anything.

 

Some content will play, but a lot of content will not.
Most of the on-demand content will not play in Edge.
All of it will play in Google chrome.

To make things simple, i will give an on demand title that will actually play in Edge.
Darkman2

 

And for one that does not work (Most do not work)
Schindler's List

 

I may be way off base, but i am thinking that the difference between the one working title, and all the many non working ones might be something to do with video type/codec?

Maybe MS can talk to a non dummy at dish and get an answer about what is different between those 2 on demand titles and why the new Edge can not play them.

 

This may seem a silly thing to complain about, but this is about the only way i ever get to watch anything as i am mostly not near home to to just watch on the tv and not terribly fond of having to install extra browsers just to do it. 
If i could roll back the edge update for now and just use legacy edge, i would, but seems you guys as MS disabled the option to remove the update.

 

 

Here is the movie working in Google Chrome

Movie working in Google Chrome

 

 

Here is same exact movie failing to work in the public release of Edge Chromium that was in the May 20 updates (Not an insider version)

Same exact movie Not working in Edge Chromium

 

Love to know why

 

  • Wiesshund's avatar
    Wiesshund
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    So for giggles here, i took one laptop and reimaged it (the one with the new edge)
    Pulled down new iso

    Win 10 Pro

    1909

    build 18363.836

     

    Let install and any updates finish.

    I did not really expect any change, and did not get any.
    But it rules out some botched config or OS issue

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    Wiesshund
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    Tested this in nightly build of Canary Same issue there, at least it is consistent.
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    Wiesshund
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    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?

     

     

    • josh_bodner's avatar
      josh_bodner
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      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
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        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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