Choppy audio switching with apple bipbop

[forbesjo]

Description

When switching audio tracks playback can be choppy and, if switching fast enough, may disable audio track switching entirely. This is an area that can have performance improvements.

Sources

https://d2zihajmogu5jn.cloudfront.net/bipbop-advanced/bipbop_16x9_variant.m3u8

Steps to reproduce

Explain in detail the exact steps necessary to reproduce the issue.

1. Switch audio tracks

Results

Expected

A smooth playback experience. hls.js's behavior for example:

Actual

Stuttering:

videojs-http-streaming version

what version of videojs-contrib-hls does this occur with? videojs-http-streaming 1.2.1

videojs version

what version of videojs does this occur with? video.js 7.1.0

Browsers

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• All

Platforms

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• All

Other Plugins

are any other videojs plugins being used on the page? If so, please list them with version below.

• None

Other JavaScript

are you using any other javascript libraries or frameworks on the page? if so please list them below.

• None