mp3 support on Firefox MediaSourceExtension

Question

I\'m looking into implementing adaptive and progressive audio streaming in the browser, with no plugins. MSE is the HTML5 API I was waiting for, available in FF 42, but it

Answer 1

I use FF42 on linux, and, contrary to what I would believe reading the documentation on MDN, MediaSource API is not enabled by default.

Have you tried to go in about:config and tweaking the parameters dealing with the codecs supported by the MediaSource API? I have switches for MP4 and webm. Not sure it would help for MP3, but it may be worth giving it a try.