Bug#929749: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: version 2.24.2-1 does not play some streams

[Richard Lucassen]

Package: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Version: 2.24.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I appended this bug to 928044, but Alberto asked me to open a new report. In the meantime I installed the unstable version 2.24.2-1, but the problems remain the same as in the testing version 2.24.1-1. Bug verified on three different computers, all Debian testing amd64.

3 issues:

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A) There is a significant difference between the time it takes to open
an HLS stream between the versions 2.24.1-1/2.24.2-1 and 2.24.0-1:

1) Go to http://radio.dos.nl/

2) Go to settings (drop down in right top corner)

3) Click "Choose protocol" until it shows HLS

4) Click on arrow (back to radio)

5) Click on "Page menu" (bottom left corner) and choose "news"

6) switch between the BBC stations (they're all HLS)

(check the Info button on the left top corner, at the bottom of the
info page there is the protocol that is used, it should show "HLS")

2.24.0 takes only tenths of a second (switches almost immediately),
2.24.1/2.24.2 takes several seconds. This is an issue that shows up with HLS
stations. 2.24.0 switches much faster anyway.

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B) There is one station that does not play at all:

1) Click on "Page menu" (bottom left corner) and choose "jazz"

2) Choose Bert's Bytes.

Version 2.24.0 plays it, 2.24.1/2.24.2 does not. This is a simple seekable mp3.

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C) Last but certainly not least: switching too fast between two HLS
stations (e.g. 5 Live and BBC Worldservice) makes the whole beast hang.
No way anymore to switch between stations. Note: I use a Debian
unmodified version of the "surf" webbrowser to play these stations. I
need to stop "surf" in order to make it work again.

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Downgrading to 2.24.0 definitely resolves these issues.

R.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                     2.30.0-2
ii  libc6                           2.28-10
ii  libcairo2                       1.16.0-4
ii  libegl1                         1.1.0-1
ii  libenchant1c2a                  1.6.0-11.1+b1
ii  libfontconfig1                  2.13.1-2
ii  libfreetype6                    2.9.1-3
ii  libgcc1                         1:8.3.0-6
ii  libgcrypt20                     1.8.4-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libgl1                          1.1.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.58.3-1
ii  libgstreamer-gl1.0-0            1.14.4-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.14.4-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.14.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.24.5-1
ii  libharfbuzz-icu0                2.3.1-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b                   2.3.1-1
ii  libhyphen0                      2.8.8-7
ii  libicu63                        63.1-6
hi  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18     2.24.0-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                 1:1.5.2-2+b1
ii  libnotify4                      0.7.7-4
ii  libopenjp2-7                    2.3.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.42.4-6
ii  libpng16-16                     1.6.36-5
ii  libsecret-1-0                   0.18.7-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                    2.64.2-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                    3.27.2-2
ii  libstdc++6                      8.3.0-6
ii  libtasn1-6                      4.13-3
ii  libwayland-client0              1.16.0-1
ii  libwayland-egl1                 1.16.0-1
ii  libwayland-server0              1.16.0-1
ii  libwebp6                        0.6.1-2
ii  libwebpdemux2                   0.6.1-2
ii  libwoff1                        1.0.2-1
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxcomposite1                  1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1                     1:1.1.4-3+b3
ii  libxml2                         2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
ii  libxslt1.1                      1.1.32-2
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-alsa          1.14.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-gl            1.14.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.14.4-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri            18.3.4-2

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 suggests:
pn  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2  <none>

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