Retry stops after live HLS stream pauses for extended period

[daveisfera]

Description

When watching a live stream that pauses adding data, the retry happens for about 8 times and then two happen in quick succession and no more retries happen. If I'm understanding the code/documentation correctly, it should be set to Infinity and should continue to happen, but it appears there's an issue with that and I believe it's related to the double request.

Sources

Since the live source has to pause to induce the problem, I don't have a publicly available link, but I can reproduce this every time.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start playing HLS stream
2. Pause upload to the stream for extended period (20-30 seconds)
3. Observe that loading of playlist stops after the double request

Results

Expected

Playlist would continue to be requested

Error output

No output in the console.

Additional Information

N/A

videojs-http-streaming version

2.14.0

videojs version

7.18.1

Browsers

Safari 15.4

Platforms

macOS 12.3

Other Plugins

None

Other JavaScript

jQuery

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[gkatsev]

By default, Safari handles HLS natively. Are you playing back natively or forcing VHS to run on Safari?

[daveisfera]

I'm loading Video.js and then playing the HLS URL using it. Like with this demo page: https://videojs.github.io/videojs-contrib-hls/