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opened on Nov 2, 2025

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I discovered this a while ago and so doesn't seem like anyone is trying to use MSE with Safari. Attempting to force vhs with Safari using overrideNative causes a no source supported error.

On discovery this load method is called in Safari but not Chrome. and the currentSource method returns an empty src and type. Which is causing the error.

video.js/src/js/player.js

Line 3761 in 20f8d76

this.src(this.currentSource());

Working example using hls.js

https://electroteque.org/dev/safari/hlsjs.html

Reduced test case

https://electroteque.org/dev/safari/videojs2.html

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  1. configure overrideNative: true
  2. test HLS in Safari

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What version of Video.js are you using?

8.23.4

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What browser(s) including version(s) does this occur with?

Safario

What OS(es) and version(s) does this occur with?

macOS

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