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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
So for giggles here, i took one laptop and reimaged it (the one with the new edge)
Pulled down new isoWin 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- Tested this in nightly build of Canary Same issue there, at least it is consistent.
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-testAnd 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 DRMSo 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 testsAt 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
Microsoft
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.
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
