In the last two livestreams, after more than 60 min into the event we have noticed the player switched to the beginning of the stream and played from there, refreshing the page resets back to the live edge. This happened to a couple of viewers on the livestream. Recently we switched VideoJS version from 7.6.6 to 7.20.2.
Here are the relevant console logs I could find:
VIDEOJS: WARN: Problem encountered with playlist 0-index_11.m3u8?end=1662574500&start=1662564600. Excessive main segment downloading detected. Switching to playlist 3-index_12.m3u8?end=1662574500&start=1662564600.
VIDEOJS: WARN: Problem encountered with playlist 3-index_12.m3u8?end=1662574500&start=1662564600. Excessive main segment downloading detected. Switching to playlist 2-index_15.m3u8?end=1662574500&start=1662564600.
VIDEOJS: WARN: Problem encountered with playlist 2-index_15.m3u8?end=1662574500&start=1662564600. Playlist no longer updating. Switching to playlist 1-index_7.m3u8?end=1662574500&start=1662564600.
Player first was streaming index_11 then it switched to index_12 and then index_15, so far it was trying to fetch the latest segments. Finally it switched to index_7 when it started from the beginning of the playlist.
Player used
videojs-http-streaming 2.14.2
Video.js 7.20.2
Plugins:
videojs-max-quality-selector
videojs-contrib-quality-levels
videojs-overlay
videojs-hotkeys
reloadSourceOnError