Poor Video Streaming Support - How to Improve??? about video.js HOT 3 CLOSED

These all play at https://videojs-http-streaming.netlify.app/. The http one doesn't, as it's http

• https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/arabic/cgtn-a.m3u8
• https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/french/cgtn-f.m3u8
• https://news.cgtn.com/resource/live/russian/cgtn-r.m3u8
• https://rakuten-euronews-2-fr.samsung.wurl.tv/manifest/playlist.m3u8

Of the others, many have CORS restrictions. The server only allows certain sites to play them. A desktop application like VLC is free to ignore those headers, but browsers enforce them and that can't be circumvented in javascript.

ts isn't supported, other than as ts segments in an HLS stream.

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@mister-ben thank you so much for the feedback. This info is super helpful. So I can remove any .ts links or http links. Are there any other formats that you know are common and won't play?

Also, is there any way to programmicaly check if the stream has a cors policy? The only way I can think of is through a simulated browser, which I would like to avoid as its slow.

Take care.

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See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12173990/how-can-you-debug-a-cors-request-with-curl?noredirect=1&lq=1

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