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

I could replicate this problem with Chromium 51. However it appears this problem does not occur anymore with Chrome 53.

Unfortunately I have been unable to find an easily readable confirmation on the Internet, that this was a confirmed bug for Chromium/Chrome that got fixed, but just indications that several people reported issues with Chrome/Chromium versions. e.g. here Videos no longer streaming with mediaelement.js in Chrome where Google Chrome Developer cwilso points to this internal chromium mailing list, but whose contents are rather cryptic without further research. It appears to be related to a switch called ENABLE_BROWSER_CDMS and the EME implementation for DRM support, that was not working as it was supposed to. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-reviews/Qi4dLcKjcCM