MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED html5 audio woes

Question

I am working on an html5 audio player and everything is working fine when I server the .ogg file from the same host as the html page. When I put the ogg file in my cdn it fa

Answer 1

The Content-Type=octet/stream header is the problem, although if I'm reading the spec correctly, it shouldn't be. Here's a testcase: http://mozilla.doslash.org/stuff/video-test/video.html

I filed a bug in Mozilla's bugzilla about this. [edit] the response:

We don't do any content sniffing to work out what the content is - we rely on the correct mime type being provided. This is why application/octet-stream does not play and way we return "" for canPlayType.