Videos no longer streaming with mediaelement.js in Chrome

Question

Over the past few days, we noticed that our videos quit streaming using MediaElement.js Version 2.11.3 and Chrome Version 50.0.2661.94 (64-bit)

Answer 1

That is because since Chrome 50 a play() call on a or an element returns a Promise. If playback succeeds, the Promise is fulfilled, and if playback fails, the Promise is rejected along with an error message explaining the failure.

You can find some examples and more information here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/play-returns-promise?hl=en