Bug preventing live streams from playing in Chrome-based browsers has been fully resolved, and live viewing now works as expected for all users.
When Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers added native support for HLS .m3u8 playback through Media Source Extensions (MSE), the way the browser handled live stream playlists changed. Instead of relying on the older, script-driven/transmuxing player behavior, Chrome started trying to treat some .m3u8 streams as natively playable media, which exposed incompatibilities in how our live playlists and segments were being served. This mismatch caused certain live streams to fail to start or continue playing in Chrome and Brave, even though they still worked in other players and apps.
We have updated our player configuration and streaming setup so that Chrome’s new native MSE/HLS handling receives the correct formats and headers, and falls back cleanly when native playback is not appropriate. As a result, live streams now load and play reliably again in all Chrome-based browsers.