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Status: WontFix
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Last visit > 30 days ago
Closed: Oct 17
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OS: iOS
Pri: 2
Type: Compat


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"360 Video playback is not supported in your current browser” error.

Project Member Reported by vbhatso...@chromium.org, Sep 15 2017

Issue description

App Version: 62.0.3202.23 beta
iOS Version: iOS 9.3.5, 10.3.3, 11
Device: iPad Pro
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/video/travel/100000005339446/hike-greek-island-santorini.html?hp&clickSource=story-heading&WT.nav=top-news&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=VideoThumb&region=AColumn 


Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch app
2. Go to https://www.nytimes.com/video/travel/100000005339446/hike-greek-island-santorini.html?hp&clickSource=story-heading&WT.nav=top-news&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=VideoThumb&region=AColumn
3.Play a video
 
Observed results:
360 Video playback is not supported error.


Expected results:
Video should play.
NOTE: Native WKWebView app is playing these videos.

Number of times you were able to reproduce: 5/5
Bug reproducible after clean install: Yes
Bug reproducible after clearing cache and cookies: Yes
Bug reproducible on Chrome Mobile on Android: Not tested
Bug reproducible on Safari/Firefox: Safari: No, Dolphin- No, Firefox-Yes
Bug reproducible on current stable build (App Version, iOS Version): M61 Yes
Bug reproducible on the current beta channel build (App Version, iOS Version): M62 Yes 
Type-bug-regression? No
Link to video/image: https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0B6GVWQnhaMClYnViV01SUzZ2SDA/view?usp=sharing


 
Labels: -OS-Chrome OS-iOS
Components: Mobile>WebView>Glue
Owner: eugene...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Please retriage if needed.

Comment 3 by jif@chromium.org, Oct 27 2017

Note that the 360 video does not work in Firefox iOS, but it does work in Dolphin iOS and UC Browser iOS.

Cc: mard...@chromium.org eugene...@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug -found-in-m62 Needs-Evangelism Type-Compat
Owner: ghendel@chromium.org
Video works just fine with Safari user agent. Gabriel, do you want to reach out to NT Times and ask them why they decided to block the experience in Chrome?
Cc: dk...@chromium.org
+dknox@ Looks like nytimes.com is doing UA sniffing. Do we have process/resources for outreach?

Comment 6 by danyao@chromium.org, Nov 17 2017

Labels: Hotlist-UASniffing
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
This is not a Chrome bug

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