Comment by shinratdr

Whether or not HLS is supported by Chrome is quite confusing. I'm not surprised they blocked it at a User Agent level (which Google does all the time for their services, Reverse Image Search & Maps being good examples).

While Chrome has supported HLS for a WebM backend for some time now, documentation on their support for HLS with an MP4 backend is unclear. It seems to work now as of Chrome 26, but that wasn't always the case. It also works fine on Android devices past 3.2 because of Google TV.