iOS 16.1 Safari/Chrome with video js player 7.18 fails with Fairplay DRM playback

On updating to iOS 16.1 we started having playback failure for all our drm content on safari/chrome for ios which uses fairplay. Versions below 16.0 or earlier do not have this issue.

We have tried using video js player with minimum eme plugins required to play drm/fairplay and no player customizations, that still doesn't play back.

We get the media decoder saying : VIDEOJS: ERROR: (CODE:3 MEDIA_ERR_DECODE) The media playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the media used features your browser did not support. MediaError {code: 3, message: "The media playback was aborted due to a corruption…media used features your browser did not support."}

This issue looks localized to fairplay on ios 16.1. Has there been any changes to fairplay on ios browsers?.

iOS 16.1 Safari/Chrome with video js player 7.18 fails with Fairplay DRM playback
 
 
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