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HLS library for video.js
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live streaming pre-load not working on Firefox and Chrome #1396

Closed sdahdaah closed 6 years ago

sdahdaah commented 6 years ago

Hello,

when using preload auto .ts files are not being retrieved on Chrome and Firefox however it is working on Safari as it has built-in support for HLS.

The issue is related to live streaming, with VOD hls there is not issue in that.

Using latest version 5.14.1

Link to test: http://rs.vod-platform.net/kwikmotiontests/preload.html

forbesjo commented 6 years ago

It looks like your test page uses the hls.js library for HLS support via videojs-contrib-hlsjs, is this correct?

sdahdaah commented 6 years ago

Yes, i am moving to hlsjs as it could succeed the preload of live streaming. By the way it doesn’t need a test file i checked the .js file of contrib-hls and you are limiting preload to video on demand stream.

I will keep you this link for testing: http://player.l1vetv.com/videojs626a/sd2.php

forbesjo commented 6 years ago

I believe this project specifically won't preload live content so that the initial play always starts at the live edge and to reduce bandwidth from segments that may not be used.

sdahdaah commented 6 years ago

Hello,

You can let it start at the edge if we keep loading the segments and chunklist similar to JWPlayer and hls.js.

i think it is a good idea to create 3 types of preload:

none does nothing (already supported) metadata (supported but same as auto) here we use the current preload method auto we define a new state similar to JWPlayer preload and hlsjs have a look at the preload in this example (http://player.l1vetv.com/ktv1/) it keeps retrieving the m3u8 and ts

it will be really appreciated if we can reach this point with live and vod, for live metada won't do any effect.

Regards,

forbesjo commented 6 years ago

We'll consider providing a way to preload live streams in the next major version of this project at VHS (https://github.com/videojs/http-streaming), closing this and opening an enhancement there