Setting the seek flags to GST_SEEK_FLAG_SNAP_* will change the seek
target time to a segment boundary.
Based on original work by Ben Willers <bwillers@digisoft.tv>.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759108
As HLS does not provide any way of knowing the server's clock, and we do
buffering of "live" streams, at some point we will fall behind the server in
many cases and would have to advance to a fragment that is not in the playlist
anymore.
Previously we would've just resynced to the next oldest fragment that is still
there, but this causes problems as from this point onwards we would always
fall off the playlist again all the time.
Instead we now resync and move to the 3rd newest fragment like we would do
when starting playback of a live stream.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758987
If connection speed is set, playlist according
to connection speed is selected as current playlist.
Problem is that the current variant of main playlist still
points to previously set variant.
If previously set variant doesn't correspond to current
playlist, then it causes unnecessary change of playlist
to the same playlist after first fragment is downloaded,
because of not updated current variant.
To fix this, we need to make sure that current variant
of main playlist corresponds to the current playlist
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758946
Don't jump backward to 3 files from the end of the playlist
when switching variants - it just means we downloaded
fragments fast and caught up to the end of the playlist.
Disable that by treating a variant switch as a playlist
update, not a restart due to a seek or so.
If the stream is discont, we must provide a timestamp in any case. Elements
like tsdemux are not going to output anything if we give a NONE timestamp
after a discont.
Also marking a stream as discont if a playlist change was not successful would
lead to the above situation, but in that case we are not required at all to
mark the stream discont as we're still at the old playlist.
If a (master) playlist contains a variant list entry without a
URI then during parsing of the next variant list entry we are
a) leaking the entry we're currently parsing (new_list), and
b) free'ing the pointer to the previous list entry (list) without
updating the pointer.
Hence when then adding the URI for the latest parsed entry, incorrect
information is stored, as the information is used from 'list' which
is not valid memory anymore, also leading to crashes.
Fix this by correctly storing the new variant list entry pointer
as needed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756861
Nicer to read, two lines of code less, and also the callback
function should've been a GCompareFunc that returns a gint
and not a boolean (it did work correctly, was just confusing).
In order to ensure the sequence_position will always be consistently updated,
store the current file duration.
This way, when we advance, we can always increment the position based on what
was previously outputted.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752132
Allows playlists that are missing the mediasequence information to
be correctly parsed. If the playlist was updated without reseting
the mediasequence it would constantly increase over subsequent updates,
leading to issues during playback.
For live streams, we want to make sure there's a certain distance
between the sequence to play and the last (earliest) fragment.
The problem is that it assumes there are at least 3 fragments in
the playlist, which might not always be the case (like in the case
of a server restarting and gradually adding fragments).
In order to avoid ending up with negative sequence numbers (which
will just loop forever), limit the new target sequence number to
the highest of:
* either the first sequence number of the playlist (fallback)
* or 3 fragments from the last one (standard behaviour)
Move the TAG defines directly into the code, not sure what
their purposes is, these are printf format strings so having
them directly as literals in the code where they're used
makes the code easier to follow.
Remove playlist_str GString variable from GstM3U8Playlist struct,
since it's only used temporarily in playlist_render(). Might just
as well keep it local then.
Some live streams (eg youtube) don't remove fragments in order to allow
seeking back in time (live + vod).
When gst_m3u8_client_has_next_fragment is called, we are getting wrong fragment
because current_file points in first file of the fragments list resulting in
watching the stream from the beginning again.
This patch sets current_file to nth fragment for live streams, then on
gst_m3u8_client_has_next_fragment will keep up with the live stream.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753344
This reverts commit 4ca3a22b6b.
The connection-speed=0 is used as a special value in the property
of hlsdemux to mean 'automatic' selection, m3u8.c doesn't need
to know about that as it should be as simple as possible.
So this patch hides this automatic selection documented in hlsdemux
into m3u8 logic and I think the gets harder to understand the code.
It also makes the hlsdemux unit tests work again
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749328
In live situations, it is not uncommon for the current fragment to end
up out of the (updated) play range (lowest/highest sequence). But the next
fragment to play *is* present in the play range.
When advancing, if we can't find the current GstM3U8MediaFile, don't abort
straight away. Instead, look if a GstM3U8MediaFile with the next sequence value
is present, and if so switch to it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750028
