Not playing HLS video from Peertube with split streams

[spirillen]

💡 Summary

Hi there,

I hope you’re all doing well!

I’ve noticed an issue with the recent upgrade of PeerTube to version 7.1.1 and now 7.2.0-rc.1. It seems that Misskey is having trouble playing newer videos that are HLS formatted, while the older videos in the same format play just fine.

I wanted to check if this is a known issue and whether you’re planning to address it. I’ve opened a ticket about this in PeerTube’s GitHub repository, and they suggested I reach out to you. You can find the issues linked below, where there are more details and examples of the problem.

Screenshot

Thanks a lot!

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7048#event-17808987368

🥰 Expected Behavior

I expect that the videos coming from PeerTube will be federated correctly, including in HLS with split streams for both video and audio.

🤬 Actual Behavior

Please refer to the summary and the link provided for the actual behavior: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7048#event-17808987368.

📝 Steps to Reproduce

1, serve a online media on any PeerTube 7.x and missKey struggle to serve HLS formatted videos with split Stream

💻 Frontend Environment

* Model and OS of the device(s):
* Browser: FireFox ESR, Tor (Forefox ESR)
* Server URL: https://matrix.rocks/about-misskey
* Misskey: v2025.5.0 and prior

🛰 Backend Environment (for server admin)

* Installation Method or Hosting Service: bash-script
* Misskey: v2025.5.0 and prior
* Node: v22.16.0
* PostgreSQL: 17
* Redis: 7
* OS and Architecture: Ubuntu 22 (About to upgrade to 24)

Do you want to address this bug yourself?

• [ ] Yes, I will patch the bug myself and send a pull request

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update: Added screenshot

[Mar0xy]

This is not a misskey specific issue and more so a peertube issue.

Note that misskey tries to use the player of PeerTube (embed) and not the Misskey/Browser: https://tube.matrix.rocks/videos/embed/sgbG4XveutUqaWr2mjNKBZ?autoplay=1&auto_play=1 but it returns a browser not supported error

[spirillen]

Hi @Mar0xy Thanks for your followup on the issue, and also for helping solve this, by sharing your experience in https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7049, that is much appreciated.

Allow me to NOT close this issue, until the problem is solved, as other Fedi software like Plerome(Akkoma) and at least friendica are affected as well.

[KisaragiEffective]

It sounds better to ask them to support on their tracker and not tracking their progress on this board... doesn't it?

[KisaragiEffective]

It'd work if you see it on mobile, according to https://caniuse.com/http-live-streaming .

However desktop browsers expect Safari do not support it, so might want to introduce libs like Hls.js .

[Chocobozzz]

Hello,

This is a peertube bug that will be fixed in next release (7.2)

[kakkokari-gtyih]

Hello,

This is a peertube bug that will be fixed in next release (7.2)

Thank you so much for letting us know!

[spirillen]

Then it;s just about getting it installed and tested 👋🏻

Should we close issue, or wait till we have success??

[Sayamame-beans]

This does not seem to be our issue, and seems already fixed, so I close this.