On January 8th Apple released an update for Safari as part of its Spectre mitigation. Unfortunately, this new version seems to prevent 360 videos from playing.

This example just displays a black screen:

https://d8d913s460fub.cloudfront.net/krp….html?v=119pr14


While others show that they're playing (and the timeline scrubber progresses as expected), but the pano is stuck on the first frame of the video:

https://d8d913s460fub.cloudfront.net/krp….html?v=119pr14


https://d8d913s460fub.cloudfront.net/krp….html?v=119pr14


You can still pan around the static image, and in all examples with audio, the audio plays correctly despite the video itself being frozen.

Is this something you're aware of, and is it fixable?

-Dan

Quoted from "klaus.krpano"

See here:
Mac Safari 10.13.2 360 video playback ISSUE

Here the Apple bug-tracker:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181445

In Safari 11.1 (available as Safari Preview) this is already fixed.

The fix in that thread worked perfectly, thanks!

This whole thing just feels like Apple were in such a rush to get their Spectre fix out that they didn't test it properly.