Content video restarts after mid-roll on Safari

[sagarsg]

Hi,

I am able to see this particular intermittent issue on Safari v 6.0.5.

The content video restarts after the mid-roll ad playback. The code in 'seekToOriginalPoint' is setting the time to zero.

var currtime = this.enforcePrecision(startplayback, 0); this.player.currentTime(currtime);

I see this behavior only on Safari. Can you please help me resolve this.

Thanks in advance.

[sagarsg]

Hi,

Did anyone fix the restart issue?

Can I use the 'loadedalldata' event to set the currentTime after mid-roll ad?

this.player.addEvent('loadedalldata', this.player.currentTime(this.enforcePrecision(_v.tempTime,1)));

I am unable to narrow down the problem that is causing content video restart.

I appreciate your time and effort in helping me solve this issue.

[sagarsg]

Hi,

Bug fix -I was able to solve the Safari restart issue by adding the event 'loadeddata'. Trying to set the time before the content is loaded sets the time to zero.

/**
 * 
 */
seekToOriginalPoint: function () {
    var _v = this.player.values;
    var _f =  _V_.proxy(this, this.seekToOriginalPoint);
    this.player.removeEvent('canplaythrough', _f);
    this.player.removeEvent('canplay', _f);
    this.player.removeEvent('loadeddata', _f);
    this.player.removeEvent('loadedmetadata', _f);
    this.player.addEvent('loadeddata', _V_.proxy(this, this.setCurrTime));
    if (_v.paused) {
        _v.paused = false;
    } 
    this.player.addEvent('timeupdate', _V_.proxy(this, this.showAdSlots));
},

/**
 * 
 */
setCurrTime: function () {
    var time = +(this.player.values.tempTime).toFixed(0);
    this.player.currentTime(time);
    this.player.play();
    this.player.removeEvent('loadeddata', _V_.proxy(this, this.setCurrTime));
},

[PetroFrolov]

Hi! I don't have OSX-devices, so I can't check or fix that bug. But I think that you way is wrong. I suppose that removing event loadmetadata (without your code) will fix the bug.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_event_canplay.asp

Can you check my assumption?

[sagarsg]

Sure. I will test it with event oncanplay.

Can I trouble you to give me some more details as to why my approach is wrong. Just want to understand the events better.

Thank you. I appreciate your time.

[PetroFrolov]

Your fix is correct but .. you trey to check loaded data twice. If you take a look at url in previous my post you'll see that the first event we need is loaddata, not loadmetadata (info about video is loaded, but data is not loaded).

[sagarsg]

Thank you for the quick response. I tried it on Safari 6.0.5 but I still see the intermittent behavior. Also, Safari browser on iPhone and iPad, I can see that the content video restarts.

I appreciate your time and effort. Can you please help me resolve this?

Thank you.