[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 172450] [GTK] Flash crashes after reload of Spotify, SiriuxXM and other streaming websites

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172450

--- Comment #5 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Jiří Janoušek from comment #4)
> > Did you have any chance of trying whether this issue is still
> > present with WebKitGTK+ 2.20.1?
> 
> No, I've switched to Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) since then because of
> the "works best in Google Chrome" status quo.

While it makes me feel a bit bad that we didn't manage to keep you on
WebKitGTK+, your decision of switching to CEF is understandable. Thanks
a lot for stopping by to comment in this old bug report :-)

> > I wonder if some of these services might have
> > been moving away from Flash—hopefully!
> 
> Most of them use HTML5 Audio with MSE when available (e.g., in Google
> Chrome), but it didn't work in WebKitGTK (with MSE enabled at both build &
> run time). BBC iPlayer (sports broadcasts) and Amazon Prime Music still
> require Flash (even in Chrome). In addition, Spotify requires Widevine DRM
> plugin.

While we are getting the state of MSE better with each release, we do not
still have upstream support for EME (so no Widevine).

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