Immediately restart the player if an error occurs

[Raino]

Hello!
I found a similar problem (videojs/videojs-contrib-hls#902, #1805, #3725, videojs/videojs-contrib-hls#1030) and did not fully understand the final way to solve it.
I tried it:

var options = {
  plugins: {
    reloadSourceOnError: {}
  }
};
var player = videojs('myVideo', options);

but the player still returned an error and did not restart.
Please help us figure out how to solve this problem.
Thanks!

[gkatsev]

I tried it locally with initializing the plugin in the player options. Then, I ran player.error({code: 4}) and I could see the player reload the current source.
Can you create a live minimal, complete, verifiable example you can share?

[Raino]

@gkatsev It will be difficult, but I can try. But first I want to clarify, during your initialization, the player did not show any error messages at all? Perhaps you can send me Your code and I will try to compare it with my own? Where you connect libraries, which ones, how you call them, and so on.

[gkatsev]

So, I was going to make an example and noticed that it was working with HLS or DASH videos but not with mp4s. This is because the plugin was specifically written with our playback engine in mind and was never tested with other sources.
The example page: https://codepen.io/gkatsev/pen/GRoxYwX?editors=1010
You can comment out the mp4 or the m3u8 to try one or the other and then click on the "create a fake error" button to trigger a fake error that will cause the source to reload for the m3u8 but not for the mp4.

[gkatsev]

Made a PR with a fix videojs/http-streaming#893.

[Raino]

@gkatsev I tried creating the error twice. The first time everything worked, and the second time the video was not interrupted, but an error message appeared on top of the player and it did not go away

[gkatsev]

The plugin is set up to not retry if there are multiple errors in quick succession. If you need that, you'll want to write your own plugin (or make edits based on the existing piece of code).

[Raino]

@gkatsev In #3725 in the message from brodjustice was an example of the code. I take it it's just for restarting the player? Can you tell me if it's relevant? Since I see working with objects of the .rtmp-video-js classes there. Or perhaps there are other ways to make the player initialization cyclic?

[Raino]

@gkatsev Maybe You can advise me some methods or plug-ins, so that when the HLS stream is bad, the player does not give an error, but always tries to connect?

[Feofilakt]

@gkatsev, Unfortunatly, your example doesn't work. Steps:

1. Play
2. Enable the dev tools "network blocking" feature for address "https://d2zihajmogu5jn.cloudfront.net"
3. Wait until player stopped
4. Disable "network blocking"