mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

[Lucas Rolff]

Be aware it doesn't work either in Chrome on mac :-)

> tunist <mailto:nginx-forum at nginx.us>
> 2 Aug 2015 13:16
> oh, so the solution here was to add: add_header Accept-Ranges bytes;
> to the site's config file.
>
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> tunist <mailto:nginx-forum at nginx.us>
> 29 Jul 2015 13:14
> greetings!
>
> i am seeing an unexplained malfunction here with nginx when serving 
> videos.
> flv and mp4 files have different symptoms. mp4 streams correctly when 
> i view
> the file in firefox 39 in fedora 22, but in windows 7 (firefox 39) the 
> file
> cannot be 'seeked' and must be played linearly.
> after speaking with the coders of video.js (the player i use), it was
> determined that nginx is not returning byte range data appropriately 
> (or at
> all) - so seeking would not work. however, this does not explain why 
> firefox
> 39 in fedora works perfectly and does not provide a solution as to how to
> get nginx to serve correctly.
>
> the only advice i have seen is to change the value of the 'max_ranges'
> directive - but doing that has made no difference. i have left it as 
> 'unset'
> - which i understand to mean 'unlimited'.
>
> an example video from the server is here:
> src="https://www.ureka.org/file/play/17924/censored%20on%20google%202.mp4"
>
> any tips welcomed! thanks
>
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