Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The play() request was interrupted by a call to pause()

[joseluisq]

When the video is stopped and I'm dragging the plyr__progress bar to the next minute, it appears this error:

Plyr v1.8.12

[sampotts]

This seems to be a Chrome issue by the looks of things: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=593273

[filoghost]

There is a workaround, not pretty but it should work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36803176/how-to-prevent-the-play-request-was-interrupted-by-a-call-to-pause-error

[sampotts]

Closing this and waiting on a Chrome fix

[neutrosolutions]

From html video TAG remove autoplay and use this code to play. hls.attachMedia(video); hls.on(Hls.Events.MANIFEST_PARSED, function () { video.play(); }); hls.on(Hls.Events.ERROR, function (event, data) { if (data.fatal) { switch (data.type) { case Hls.ErrorTypes.NETWORK_ERROR: // try to recover network error console.log("fatal network error encountered, try to recover"); hls.startLoad(); break; case Hls.ErrorTypes.MEDIA_ERROR: console.log("fatal media error encountered, try to recover"); hls.recoverMediaError(); break; default: // cannot recover hls.destroy(); break; } } });

[alejandroiglesias]

I would like to reopen this because the aforementioned Chrome issue says the error is fixed for when calling HTMLMediaElement.pause before HTMLMediaElement.play, but calling HTMLMediaElement.play and then HTMLMediaElement.pause while the media is loading still throws the error.

// fixed
media.pause();
media.play();

// won't fix; still shows the issue.
media.play();
media.pause();

HTMLMediaElement.play is async and returns a promise. The error complains about having called HTMLMediaElement.pause before the playback started.

I would like to quote to the Chromium issue owner:

This has been resolved a long time ago. If you are seeing an error but that your website otherwise behave exactly the same, this is not a bug in Chrome but in your website. If you are seeing an error in the console and your website stopped behaving properly, please file another bug with a test page.

In this case, everything behaves exactly the same and it won't get fixed by the Chromium team because the call to HTMLMediaElement.play returns a promise that gets resolved when the media element is ready to play. At that point, the call to HTMLMediaElement.pause can be made. Since we rely on Plyr to handle HTMLMediaElement, it should either know about the promise returned by HTMLMediaElement.play and smartly call HTMLMediaElement.pause when it's resolved, or at least provide a way to interact with the promise by returning it when calling plyr.play. I tried to look at plyr.isPaused() and plyr.getMedia().paused in order to work around it myself, but they're false even though they didn't start playing yet because of buffering. I also tried to use plyr.getMedia().play() instead of plyr.play() in order to get the promise and then always call pause/stop when the promise resolves, but eventually, I get the error again, so maybe I'm missing something. I think that Plyr could keep a track of this promise internally so that users don't need to worry about this issue.

[laukstein]

Chrome post about how to fix this issue https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/06/play-request-was-interrupted This issue still isn't fixed, tested on v2.0.13.

[pionl]

Hi there, this can't be fixed at our end, this is problem when the source is still loading and pause/destroy is called (event if the plyr container is removed from dom - chrome indicates pause event).

Only solution is to catch promise in the play/pause (this can be only done in plyr source). Martin.

[lichenbuliren]

I use pretty javascript code solve it:

video.src = 'xxx';
video.load();
setTimeout(function() {
    video.play();
}, 0);

[mhluska]

I'm not able to solve this problem when there are multiple video elements on the screen. The error seems to trigger when I call .play() on one while the previous one is still loading.

[ramyahk02]

Is there any update on this issue? I still get the error "Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The play() request was interrupted by a call to pause()." Trying to use the Promise function to handle this gives 'playPromise.then is not a function' error. Any suggestion would help.

[sampotts]

No update but it can be safely ignored. v3 will return a Promise for calls to .play() and will be in beta very soon.

[liamtarpey]

I can still reproduce this when passing autoplay: true to the player config when mounting my component (not triggering play() manually)

Something like this fixes it for me:

if (autoplayWanted) {
    player.play();
}

[clark-stevenson]

I can confirm the same as @liamtarpey and also thank you for the work around.

[intelligence]

Yup, same here. Get Uncaught (in promise) DOMException thrown in my face if I set autoplay: true. If I remove it, the error disappears.

[Hydra9268]

Can confirm that lichenbuliren's autoplay fix works for audio.

My code below:

var player = new Plyr('#player', { controls: [ 'restart', 'play', 'progress', 'mute', 'volume' ]});
player.source = {
	type: 'audio',
	sources: [{
		src: 'http://u7map-leaflet.s3.amazonaws.com/files/music/' + musicID + '.mp3',
		type: 'audio/mp3'
	}]
};
setTimeout(function() {
	player.play();
}, 0);

The 0ms timeout gives Plyr the time it needs to stop the current audio before the new is loaded and played thus resolving the race condition error. You can see the fix in action at http://kxmode.com/u7map/. Select a series of music pins on the map. Notice how the music stops playing before the new starts. Also notice no errors in the inspector console.

I feel like it would good to add that additional logic to plyr.js for the autoplay option. I don't imagine it would cause problems for a browser that doesn't need it, but it is definitely required for Chrome. If anything, it would be good boilerplate.

[electroheadfx]

I have the same issue with the last version on safari mac. Work in Firefox and chrome. The issue is here: https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/issues/1385

[antongorodezkiy]

Have the same issue in Chromium 75 on Ubuntu

[laukstein]

Why https://github.com/sampotts/plyr isn't considering fixing this issue?

[Venryx]

Just wanted to mention that for me, @lichenbuliren's solution didn't work (the error still showed).

This worked for me instead:

video.pause();
video.addEventListener("canplay", function onCanPlay() {
	video.removeEventListener("canplay", onCanPlay);
	video.play();
});
video.load();

[karljakober]

Still encountering this issue coming from plyr...

[laukstein]

If according to @karljakober this issue still accrues on the latest Plyr, why this issue isn't reopen?

[laukstein]

@karljakober can you add screenshot of issue you notice? Does it post console info or error? Ref https://github.com/pionl/plyr/commit/58677033cc9ec9c3aea1d77f0bd86b1b902034d9#diff-2999d34c7d48fa26668dd28082cd6303R2079

[Benny739]

For me it's a console.error. Happens when die video is buffering and you press pause.

Edit: For me this looks like a console error. I'm using hls.js and this happens when the video is buffering and the user clicks pause while it's still buffering.

[kush1960]

We're still experiencing the same issue using HLS.js Same console error as Benny739 and only happens when pausing a video while it's still buffering.