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aws-samples / amazon-ivs-player-ios-sample

This repository contains sample apps which use the Amazon IVS Player iOS SDK.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/
MIT License
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Player duration for VoD asset is indefinite #4

Closed joel9stars closed 4 years ago

joel9stars commented 4 years ago

Hello,

While attempting to play a sample url on the player, the player duration comes up as indefinite (even though it was a 2.43 min video). I have tried other urls as well; some worked and some have the same issue.

I tried the same url with AVPlayerViewController, and it showed the correct duration. What could be the issue?

Here's the url that I was testing - "https://d21vl8honu7aek.cloudfront.net/out/v1/1dde3e1d23044b4d9900d57443bc5f13/81c00c1f1558463fb095b5405d64b50b/d361d2b4d13a479f829f916983e72e6a/index.m3u8"

CFKevinRef commented 4 years ago

What's the source of this stream? We can't commit to supporting arbitrary streams at the moment, but we're looking into the behavior of this one for the sake of player robustness.

joel9stars commented 4 years ago

Sorry, I am unable to dig out the source, but the player has this issue with a lot of other HLS .m3u8 streams too. I was intending to use this player for a music video streaming app that my company is building, without using the IVS service. The streaming would include both live and VoD assets. While attempting to play a 2 hour music concert video, the player duration came out indefinite.

This link - https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/MI201109210084_1/m3u8s/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.m3u8 - that I picked from https://bitmovin.com/mpeg-dash-hls-examples-sample-streams/ doesn't work as expected either. The player duration gets inferred as indefinite, and the video plays only from the last 15 seconds. This works without an issue on AVPlayerViewController.

CFKevinRef commented 4 years ago

I'm going to close the issue since officially we're supporting IVS streams only at this time. I appreciate you bringing this to our attention.