App Crash tvOS 16

[A32rj3gebebr]

The app crashes on an Apple TV 4K (1st gen) since the update to tvOS 16 as soon as you want to play a video. Before that it worked without problems.

[AshWhitear]

Here's some extra info:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[WebCoreNSURLSessionTaskTransactionMetrics _privacyStance]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x283562a30'

[red-lonely-neuron]

Hi. I have also got that exception attempting to play a video, no matter the site. I have attempted to debug it but Xcode drops me in some assembler code. Nothing useful.
For the build, I have used macOS 13.1, Xcode 14.2. I have set multiple tvOS versions: 11, ..., 16.
Is it related to some entitlements the application might not have?

[AshWhitear]

Since tvOS 16 there may be a required var that isn’t included in the webkit version we use (microsoft/playwright#10892). We may need to try build an updated webkit package

[staskus]

I found a workaround by adding a dummy method at runtime. I'm not an expert but it seems to do the job and the crashes no longer happen.

CC: @A32rj3gebebr, @AshWhitear , @red-lonely-neuron if you still interested.

[beckmx]

@staskus i just tested and at least on 16.1 didn’t work, it crashed on yt and fb, what tvOS version u have? And generation?
edit: it did work! I didnt checkout your fix branch

[staskus]

edit: it did work! I didnt checkout your fix branch

Great to know, thanks for confirming! I added the wrong link to my message, which might've created confusion.

[red-lonely-neuron]

I have also tested the fix and the application didn't crash.

[RHStonks]

@staskus this fixes the issue. Is it possible for you to fix the full screen issue. I'm unable to fullscreen when watching videos?

[staskus]

@staskus this fixes the issue. Is it possible for you to fix the full screen issue. I'm unable to fullscreen when watching videos?

@RHStonks thanks for testing!

I investigated full screen before, and it seems to be a separate issue, coming from the fact that tvOS does not officially support the usage of web views. One of my ideas was to extract the video source and feed it to AVPlayer but I haven't had a chance to experiment with that. Maybe there're other ways as well.

[RHStonks]

@staskus this fixes the issue. Is it possible for you to fix the full screen issue. I'm unable to fullscreen when watching videos?

@RHStonks thanks for testing!

I investigated full screen before, and it seems to be a separate issue, coming from the fact that tvOS does not officially support the usage of web views. One of my ideas was to extract the video source and feed it to AVPlayer but I haven't had a chance to experiment with that. Maybe there're other ways as well.

Thanks for the reply. Glad to have people like you to fix these issues.

Can't wait to see if you can extract the video source and feed it to AVPlayer. Would be a game-changer to be able to watch videos in fullscreen.

I wonder where the original developer has gone. Hasn't been active since the beginning of 2021.