so here is a mp3 radio stream:
http://studioone-stream.iowapublicradio.org/StudioOne.mp3
when I play it in Firefox or VLC player, it plays instantly, but if I play it in Google Chrome, it will have around 4 seconds delay to load before it plays. What does Chrome do in that 4 seconds?
The reason I am asking is on our website, we are using Howler.js as the player to play our radio streams, we are running into the same issue, especially if we play the radio stream through Howler player on Chrome, it will add extra 5-6 seconds delay on top of the existing 4 seconds delay, so it will take around 10 seconds in total to load before it plays, weirdly, it plays the same stream through Howler on Firefox still instantly.....I realize the delay happens on any of Chromium based browsers, like Edge.
I was thinking because the stream is HTTP, so Chrome takes few seconds to switch it to HTTPS, but it does not explain why Firefox plays it instantly, Firefox also switches HTTP to HPPTS automatically?
Wondering if the issue is related to browser or related to Howler player?
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Streaming a MP4 video from a remote site to Chrome using <video> element, works great on IE - but on Google Chrome, the videos buffering is extremely slow (1st second buffers for 5 seconds, then plays this second, then 5 seconds to buffer the 2nd second etc.).
The videos format is MP4 with H264 encoding.
This does not happen on all clients (though I failed to find a common attribute which can cause this).
Any idea why this is happening ?
Self-solved this issue by changing the video's bitrate to a lower value (276k).
I'm streaming a 256 kbps mp3 in real-time for a radio-style site I'm creating. I'm streaming it over HTTP.
When I access the stream URL via Firefox, it starts playing the mp3 back immediately at the point in the song the server was streaming when it connected.
With Chrome however, it needs to buffer for at least 8 seconds before it starts playing.
How can I get Chrome (and Safari) to behave like Firefox and start playing the audio immediately?
I'm playing the audio with this code:
var a = new Audio('/stream');
a.play();
Thanks
This is a bit older but it looks like this was a known bug with Chrome per this link:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=362387
Updated versions of Chrome should have resolved your issue for mp3 but it seems as though the issue is still a problem with other formats such as AAC.
Chrome Version: 32.0.1700.76 m
Operating System: Windows 7
I've been having issues with Chrome's html5 video player. Two concerns:
The video won't begin to play until the entire video buffers. The loading bar shows the video loading slowly until the entire video is loaded and then it begins to play the video. This takes a while for people with slow internet and they may think the video is broken if it doesn't begin playing within 10-15 seconds.
When the video plays there is no sound. The image shows but there isn't any sound. The only sound is a random .5 second sound clip while the video is buffering.
I would very much appreciate some help troubleshooting these problems or possible alternate solution ideas.
Page with video problems:
http://suntmormon.ro/actiuni-umanitare/
Here's one video that doesn't play at all in Chrome. It may be an unrelated problem:
http://suntmormon.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Mormon-Missionaries.mp4
-Davis
I have an h264 mp4 video that is 960x540, 1000kbps and 30 minutes long. This will be playing off of a disc. I noticed only in chrome that when I open the web page it is embedded in, my computer slows way down and the video gets all choppy for a solid 5 seconds every time...almost like it is loading the entire resource.
I tested playing the file in IE9 and Firefox and these seem to play ok when I first open it. I really wish chrome would ditch their version of flash and just use the plugin version that all the other browsers use. I love chrome, but this is unacceptable.
I am looking for a solution to this resource loading problem. Things to note, I am using the OSMF framework and using a simple MediaPlayerSprite to show the video. Not a heavyweight element whatsoever. Thanks.
i have an icecast server serving continuous mp3 stream. i tried to play it in html5 with the audio tag. in safari it shows up and plays, but the moment the song changes, the stream stops and will not start again, even it i press the play button.
does anybody know a way around this?
This is a known Firefox Bug “Firefox fails on chained ogg stream” #455165 and should be fixed in Firefox 20.
Update: Sorry, didn't saw that you said you are streaming mp3. Firefox might have similar issues with mp3 too…