JS exceptions when playing m3u8 video streams

[bettysteger]

Description

Our users are using Android 10/13 with the Browsers Chrome Mobile 119 or Samsung Internet 25.0. And the HLS stream is sometimes stuck or not playing at all. Internet Connection is fast - so that's not the problem!

Our bug tracker (Sentry), noticed a few exceptions:

1. Cannot read properties of null (reading 'type') TypeError .onDone(video.js/dist/video.es)
   ./node_modules/video.js/dist/video.es.js in .onDone at line 41286:28
   ./node_modules/video.js/dist/video.es.js in transmuxer.onerror at line 40755:5

2. Failed to read the 'responseText' property from 'XMLHttpRequest': The value is only accessible if the object's 'responseType' is '' or 'text' (was 'arraybuffer'). InvalidStateError getBody(@videojs/xhr/lib/index)
   ./node_modules/@videojs/xhr/lib/index.js in getBody at line 149:18
   ./node_modules/@videojs/xhr/lib/index.js in loadFunc at line 219:15

For the 1st one i checked the code and it is calling the onDone method with null which causes the error:

const handleError = () => {
  const error = {
    message: 'Received an error message from the transmuxer worker',
    metadata: {
      errorType: videojs.Error.StreamingFailedToTransmuxSegment,
      segmentInfo: segmentInfoPayload({
        segment
      })
    }
  };
  onDone(null, error);
};

Of course i need to find out why these error are occurring in the first place, but getting rid of the JS exceptions and handling the errors correctly would be nice!

Reduced test case

https://codepen.io/bettyst/pen/KKjMbMX?editors=1000

Steps to reproduce

1. Use a Samsung Smartphone
2. Open up Samsung Internet Browser
3. Open up the test case URL
4. Check if the video is streaming

Errors

No response

What version of Video.js are you using?

8.16.1

Video.js plugins used.

No response

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

Samsung Internet 25.0

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

Android 10

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