Live events not playing on LG (WebOS < v6.0.0 - Chromium v.68)

[edubusquets]

Expected Behavior

Live event videos should start playing after calling the Player.play() method from LG (webOS) devices.
"Normal" streams are working on the same devices, and live events are working from desktop & mobile browsers, also from the newest version of WebOS.

Actual Behavior

The Player.play() Promise is not resolving or rejecting. I get no response on this method call from WebOS devices (real TVs or emulators) on versions >= v5.X.X

Even without the promise response, the browser start requesting the video chunks because I can see the requests, but the video is no playing and gets stuck on the preview.

I checked the Chromium versions on WebOS and got this:

https://webostv.developer.lge.com/discover/specifications/web-engine/

I reproduced the problem on Chromium v.68 / Windows.

WebOS is playing live events on the last version (v.6.0.0) using Chromium 79, but only most recent devices can be updated to this OS version.

Steps to Reproduce

1- Start a live event
2- Copy the event url
3 - Check it on a modern browser (video is played)
4 - Try from Chromium v68 or LG WebOS TV or emulator on versions older than v. 6.0.0. The video is not played and you can't get any error.

I'm not sure if this is a real issue or just a minimum requirement, but the play() method not resolving is not the expected behaviour.

Thanks,
Edu

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