forbesjo
commented
6 years ago We've recently made a fix for live stream disconnects, is this still an issue for you in the latest version of video.js? Video.js 7 now includes HLS playback by default and includes https://github.com/videojs/http-streaming which is the next version of this project.
miyakoj
Description
We're using Video.js and Video.js HLS to create a video wall with a page usually containing 4 or more players. All of our streams come from DVRs external to the network and VLC is used on our server for transcoding. A Node.js script restarts the transcoding process for a stream when there's a problem (which restarts the segment numbering over at 1), but that sometimes causes the player to get stuck in a loop trying to download the last segment it was downloading when the process restarted, which keeps 404ing. Reload source on error doesn't trigger. I added a double click handler on the player to trigger an error to force it to reload, but that doesn't help.
Sorry, I can't include a reduced test case because the streams are private.
Sources
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Steps to reproduce
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Results
Sometimes the stream doesn't resume, the current segment 404s repeatedly instead.
Expected
The stream will resume playing when the web server comes back up.
Error output
GET XHR http://[...]/video/3/fileSequence000085.ts [HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 54ms]
Additional Information
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videojs-contrib-hls version
5.14.1
videojs version
6.8.0
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