How can I know if the streaming is playing?

[Martini002]

What do you want to do with Hls.js?

I'm playing M3U8 urls, some are broken links and others works fine. How can I detect if the streaming is not playing after let's say 5 seconds Can we detect the buffering or the bytes received? Thank you

What have you tried so far?

I'm not well versed in JS, please help.

[robwalch]

Steps four and five of "Getting started" in the API doc are supposed to inform developers about playback and error handling:

https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/docs/API.md#fourth-step-control-through-video-element

[Martini002]

I will check them, I might need some extra help as I'm not a JS dev, thank you very much