no DirectPlay with HTTPLiveStreamURL in the latest Web-Players?

plexmediaserver-1.0.0.2261 had the last Web-Player, which plays HTTPLiveStreamURL’s in my Chrome-Browser (v56.0.2924.87) without transcoding.

Also the recent Web-Player V3.0.0 doesn’t play directly.

For my tests I have used the Qmusic-Plugin from Sander1, because my own plugins also build videoclip_obj’s without Service-Code. All tests with the relveant player-preferences were unsuccessful till now.

As local Workaround I have replaced the WebClient.bundle in the latest PMS-Updates with the WebClient.bundle from PMS v1.0.0.2261-a17e99e.

This WebClient.bundle (Web-Player v2.7.0) does DirectPlay with Qmusic, my Plugins and don’t have the cropping-issue in Picture-Galleries.

Because this workaround may fail with upcoming PMS-Updates: does someone know a better way?
/R

######Plugins: ARDMediathek2016, Plex-Plugin-KIKA_und_tivi, Plex-Plugin-3Sat_Mediathek, Plex-Plugin-Flickr, Plex-Plugin-TagesschauXL

I don’t know when it changed, but I do know that when the web client gets an HTTP Live Streams (HLS) video it will ask the server for a transcode. This is done because the Flash video player will be dropped completely in the future and not all web browsers can handle HLS natively. This also makes it possible to have encrypted HLS streams work in the Plex web client. The downside is that live streams cannot be played in the web client any longer (because PMS is unable to transcode live streams at the moment).

Thank You - I should have ask last week. This would have saved many attempts to solve a non-existing-configuration problem.
/R