Manual way to force stop requesting for chunklist

[tokidoki11]

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Description

I have a live hls streaming, somehow when it is ended it doesn't send any EXT-X-ENDLIST flag, so we manually trigger stream end by issuing videojs.error(message) but, the problem is I still see the network is still trying to get the chunklist

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Steps to reproduce

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1. Setup live hls streaming to streaming server via OBS or similar
2. view with videojs
3. stop the live video from OBS

videojs-http-streaming version

what version of videojs-http-streaming does this occur with? videojs-http-streaming 1.13.2

videojs version

what version of videojs does this occur with? video.js 7.8.4

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what browsers are affected? please include browser and version for each Tested on Chrome 84

Platforms

what platforms are affected? please include operating system and version or device and version for each MacOS 10.15.6

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[gkatsev]

We don't really have a way to do that right now. The closest is probably to call reset() on the player. If you know that the event has ended, you can just call reset directly. You can also listen to the retryplaylist event on tech which gets triggered when we get an issue requesting a playlist, this would happen when there's a blip with the network but also if the stream has ended but the end list tag isn't present.

player.tech().on('retryplaylist', () => {
  if (weHaveRetriedSeveralTimesThenThisMustBeEndOfStream()) {
    player.reset();
  }
});

For example something like that.

[tokidoki11]

Currently i use the waiting event and check the stream. I reset the player as well, but it doesn't seem to work

something like this

 this.player.on('waiting', async () => {
      if (this.hasPlayed) {
        const exists = await this.checkStreamExists()
        if (!exists) {
          this.player.reset()
          this.player.error("stream ends")
          this.player.errorDisplay.show()
        }
      }
    })

[kaizau]

Also experiencing this exact issue. In my case, the problem is immediately preceded by all the renditions becoming blacklisted. I'm logging this out like so:

player.tech().on("usage", e => {
  console.log(e.name); // hls-rendition-blacklisted
}

hls-rendition-blacklisted triggers for every stream quality, then the network panel becomes flooded with requests.

The only workaround that I found to stop the requests was to overwrite player.hls.xhr with a noop... but obviously that's not ideal.

[tokidoki11]

Adding to this thread triggering ended event manually is not helping either

[tokidoki11]

I found out, pausing player then reset it, will stop the request since it is guaranteed to call doReset_

https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/8e5a1af82637e1c910a3336bca1d63509e9ea2cc/src/js/player.js#L3440-L3450

now, the problem is I cant reload the player anymore with player.load()

[tokidoki11]

@gkatsev

Could you please explain the logic behind playing the video first before doReset_ The code in silencePromise didnt run at all....

[heennkkee]

@tokidoki11 Perhaps the playPromise throws an error? Try chaining a .catch() after the .then.

I've resolved this problem with this by pausing the player, setting currentTime to 0 and then resetting the player. I don't have to deal with the issue of not being able to "reinitiate" the player though,

[tokidoki11]

@tokidoki11 Perhaps the playPromise throws an error? Try chaining a .catch() after the .then.

Will try this....

I've resolved this problem with this by pausing the player, setting currentTime to 0 and then resetting the player.

yes, pausing the video will indeed call the doReset_

I don't have to deal with the issue of not being able to "reinitiate" the player though,

I think, it is on my side.. the src that I pass before calling load is seems to be undefined sending the correct one, will load the video perfectly....

[tokidoki11]

@tokidoki11 Perhaps the playPromise throws an error? Try chaining a .catch() after the .then.

I have tried this, no error is being caught.... Well technically i can just send pause, or as @kaizau said just noop the XHR

but without explanation at all it feels like a monkey patch. if ever there is an update on this area, it will be very hard to see on my side since no documentation will state the change

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[gkatsev]

I think this is something we should add. We do have a way to stop all loading, but it isn't exposed publicly. In addition, we don't have a good way of restarting things afterwards. So, for this feature, we'll want pause and continue methods exposed that would allow the loaders to pause and continue when called.

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[mysuf]

Similar issue happens when Google IMA SDK replaces video element's src on IOS (videojs 6.13.0, contrib-ads 6.9.0). As it bypasses player.src method, player doesn't know that source changes (to mp4) and vhs starts blacklisting all playlists due to PlaybackWatcher resulting in MediaError (no playlist to play). Is there way to make it work when IMA SDK requires video element to change source directly? Calling player.src makes new video tag which breaks reference. It would be nice to have vhs instance passively on tech, but suspended (no listeners, no intervals, etc). When IMA SDK returns previous hls src, it should be again activated.