I've got HLS Live streams which playback fine. The problems occur when a user clicks either the Instant Replay button or the Rewind button. In both cases, the playback does successfully back up a reasonable amount and resumes playback. However, the playback hangs forever once it finishes replaying those segments and the already downloaded segments, without ever continuing to download new segments.
I'm sorry about the length of the following, but it's actually not very much data (lots of similar data for a sample collection of segments).
My debug logs look good to me while the playback initially gets going:
Stream started. index: 0 data: 0
StreamBitrate: 0
MeasuredBitrate: 5830
Url: xxx
IsUnderrun: false
Download segment info index: 0 data: 0
Sequence: 0
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 1
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3824.ts
SegSize: 3256724
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 3256724
SegType: 0
HLS segment info index: 0 Sequence: 0
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 0
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3824.ts
SegStartTime: 0
Download segment info index: 1 data: 0
Sequence: 1
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 1
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3825.ts
SegSize: 3251836
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 4246544
SegType: 0
Download segment info index: 2 data: 0
Sequence: 2
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 11
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3826.ts
SegSize: 3232284
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 6997548
SegType: 0
Download segment info index: 3 data: 0
Sequence: 3
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 1
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3827.ts
SegSize: 3248640
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 9813036
SegType: 0
Download segment info index: 4 data: 0
Sequence: 4
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 12
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3828.ts
SegSize: 3254468
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 12409692
SegType: 0
Download segment info index: 5 data: 0
Sequence: 5
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 2
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3829.ts
SegSize: 3311244
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 14710248
SegType: 0
HLS segment info index: 10010 Sequence: 1
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 1
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3825.ts
SegStartTime: 10010
and this continues indefinitely, with the Download segment info events progressing through Sequence numbers and media_xxxx.ts segment url's.
Eventually, my last logged Download segment info event is:
Download segment info index: 13 data: 0
Sequence: 13
Status: 0
SegBitrate: 3000
DownloadDuration: 2
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3837.ts
SegSize: 3163100
BufferSize: 67108864
BufferLevel: 15139452
SegType: 0
and I'm currently streaming:
HLS segment info index: 90324 Sequence: 9
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 9
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3833.ts
SegStartTime: 90324
This is when I hit the Instant Replay button (the rewind button has similar issues), and the "Download segment info" events stop, and never restart. I get:
Playback paused. index: 0 data: 0
Stream started. index: 98 data: 0
StreamBitrate: 0
MeasuredBitrate: 5044
Url: xxx
IsUnderrun: false
HLS segment info index: 80214 Sequence: 8
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 8
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3832.ts
SegStartTime: 80214
HLS segment info index: 90324 Sequence: 9
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 9
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3833.ts
SegStartTime: 90324
HLS segment info index: 100334 Sequence: 10
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 10
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3834.ts
SegStartTime: 100334
HLS segment info index: 110344 Sequence: 11
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 11
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3835.ts
SegStartTime: 110344
HLS segment info index: 120354 Sequence: 12
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 12
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3836.ts
SegStartTime: 120354
HLS segment info index: 130364 Sequence: 13
StreamBandwidth: 3000
Sequence: 13
SegUrl: xxx&segId=media_3837.ts
SegStartTime: 130364
Stream started. index: 158 data: 0
StreamBitrate: 0
MeasuredBitrate: 5044
Url: xxx
IsUnderrun: true
Notice that the Instant Replay does back up from segment sequence number 9 to sequence 8, replays that segment, replays 9, and then continues to play the previously downloaded segment sequence numbers 10 through 13, but never continues downloading new segments.
Is my event loop supposed to be responsible for doing anything to get the stream to resume? It certainly seems that the video player component is handling everything to do with this Instant Replay (or Rewind), and there's nothing for my app to do.
Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Jon
