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[Enhancement] Retrying video stream after restart #4966

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ggtylerr opened this issue Oct 1, 2024 · 0 comments
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[Enhancement] Retrying video stream after restart #4966

ggtylerr opened this issue Oct 1, 2024 · 0 comments
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ggtylerr commented Oct 1, 2024

Is your enhancement request related to a problem? Please describe.
As per documentation, public instances typically restart every hour. When viewing a video during this, if the user has proxying enabled, it prevents loading until the user changes qualities or refreshes.

Describe the solution you'd like
The client should retry buffering after ~10-20 seconds of receiving an error. An example error that happens during this restart period is:

VIDEOJS: WARN: Problem encountered with playlist 5-placeholder-uri-5. HLS request errored at URL: https://instance.url/videoplayback... Switching to playlist 5-placeholder-uri-5.
VIDEOJS: WARN: Problem encountered with playlist 5-placeholder-uri-5. Switching to playlist 5-placeholder-uri-5.

Describe alternatives you've considered
The hoster can implement http3-ytproxy as per the public instance improvement guide, and this should prevent this issue. However, not only is this deprecated software and only mentioned in a guide meant for public instance hosters, but this proxy had a lot of stability issues after the recent-ish potoken / visdata / sighelper patch. (Maybe it's just a me issue though since it's working for some ppl.) This also doesn't help if that needs to restart too.

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@ggtylerr ggtylerr added the enhancement Improvement of an existing feature label Oct 1, 2024
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