Bug#928044: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: version 2.24.1-1 does not play some streams

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 08:08:52PM +0200, Richard Lucassen wrote:

> After an upgrade from 2.22.7 to 2.24.1-1, libwebkit2gtk refuses
> to play some radio streams. Downgrade to 2.22.7 resolves the
> problem. Seen on 4 different machines. The browser I use is
> "surf". The audio system is ALSA.

I haven't had the time to test this yet, but we suspect that this is a
regression between 2.24.0 and 2.24.1 caused by this patch:

https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/243197/webkit

Can you try 2.24.0 and see if it works?

https://snapshot.debian.org/package/webkit2gtk/2.24.0-1/

Thanks!

Berto