vttparser: strip of BOM characters - in regex

related to #1307 #1286
video-dev · Aug 28, 2017 · d483291 · d483291
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diff --git a/src/utils/vttparser.js b/src/utils/vttparser.js
@@ -296,10 +296,7 @@ VTTParser.prototype = {
         line = collectNextLine();
         // strip of UTF-8 BOM if any
         // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8
-        if (line.indexOf("ï»¿") === 0) {
-          line = line.substr(3);
-        }
-        var m = line.match(/^WEBVTT([ \t].*)?$/);
+        var m = line.match(/^(ï»¿)?WEBVTT([ \t].*)?$/);
         if (!m || !m[0]) {
           throw new Error('Malformed WebVTT signature.');
         }