Video Playback Issue in Chrome 55 on Android 6
I'm experiencing an issue where I am unable to play any Laracasts videos in browser on my Samsung Tab A 10.1 running Android 6.0.1. I can replicate the issue in Chrome 55.0.2883.91 and Firefox 50.1.
Firefox shows an error "Currently unable to play this video. Stop the other video and try again", there are no other tabs or video players open. In Chrome, the video container shows an "X" with the error "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported". The Chrome console also shows the following error:
VIDEOJS: ERROR: (CODE:4 MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED)
I noticed some unexpected network activity, what appears to be duplicate requests for the same Vimeo resource:
https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/3939/7/194695090/651682387.mp4?token=[token]
https://player.vimeo.com/external/194695090.hd.mp4?s=[some sort of identifier]&profile_id=119
https://player.vimeo.com/external/194695090.hd.mp4?s=[some sort of identifier]&profile_id=119
https://player.vimeo.com/external/194695090.hd.mp4?s=[some sort of identifier]&profile_id=119 - This one gets a status of "cancelled"
Then, later on in the same page load:
https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/3939/7/194695090/651682387.mp4?token=[token]
https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/3939/7/194695090/651682387.mp4?token=[token]
https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/3939/7/194695090/651682387.mp4?token=[token]
I am able to download videos and play them back on the device in question, I am also able to watch the video by directly entering the URL to the video. I just can't play the videos that are embedded.
I feel like the issue may be on my end since I am only able to replicate it on a single device. Has anyone else experienced this issue or know of a possible cause?
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