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Reputation: 5760

Audio playback halts/stops on Chrome 64

Google just changed how Chrome preloads audio and video; see: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media/preload-metadata

It's my understanding that simply setting preload attribute to auto should fix the problem, however, I have been unable to do so:

let mp3 = 'https://s3-staging.read2me.online/audio/5a745d88483d86.76121223.mp3';
let audio = new Audio(mp3);
audio.preload = 'auto';

audio.play();

<audio src="https://s3-staging.read2me.online/audio/5a745d88483d86.76121223.mp3" preload="auto" autoplay></audio>

Both of these will stop playing within a minute on Chrome 64 and Chrome 65-dev (other browsers and older Chromes are unaffected). I have replicated this issue on Mac, Windows and Android.

During my debug process, I have attached all possible media events to the JS object (i.e. audio.addEventListener('timeupdate', () => { console.log('timeupdate') })) and at first the events were firing like this:

progress timeupdate progress timeupdate [...]

Later like this: timeupdate timeupdate timeupdate [...]

When the audio playback stopped, I got a handful of error events, and dumping audio.error returns: PIPELINE_ERROR_DECODE: Failed to send audio packet for decoding: timestamp=81763265 duration=26122 size=201 side_data_size=0 is_key_frame=1 encrypted=0 discard_padding (ms)=(0, 0)

How do I fix this? Is this a Chrome bug?

UPDATE:

UPDATE 2:

chrome://media-internals/ reveals this:

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UPDATE 3:

This issue has been fixed in Chrome 65.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 3960

Answers (2)

Shozab H.
Shozab H.

Reputation: 575

Same issue I am facing with concatenating technique. With ffmpeg, it works fine. Try ffmpeg with this command.

ffmpeg -f concat -i "{textfile}" -c:v copy -ab 48k -y "{output}"

textfile will have a list of files written per line.

Upvotes: 0

onin
onin

Reputation: 5760

After a couple of days of trial and error and research, I have confirmed what doesn't and does work.

Doesn't work

mp3wrap

mp3wrap output.mp3 *.mp3 the output file is still corrupted and halts

ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i "concat:0.mp3|1.mp3" -acodec copy output.mp3 the output file is still corrupted and halts

Does work

mp3val with -f argument

Simply concatenate/implode your audio binaries (in PHP I do implode('', $audioBinaries) and then run mp3val -f concatenated-audio-file.mp3. The -f argument is essential and it means "try to fix errors".

How to install mp3val?

On MacOS: brew install mp3val On Deb/Ubu: apt-get install mp3val

Upvotes: 6

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