http-streaming Support for EXT-X-START in HLS

Hi!

I noticed that video.js doesn't seem to respect EXT-X-START as set in my HLS manifest, e.g:

#EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET=0.7,PRECISE=YES

I also noticed there is an abandonded(?) PR by @masterful in videojs-contrib-hls: https://github.com/videojs/videojs-contrib-hls/pull/1299

Is this indeed something that this library doesn't currently support? If possible, I would very much appreciate if it could be a part of your roadmap.

Dec 11 '18 21:12 jimmycallin

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Dec 11 '18 21:12 welcome[bot]

👋 hi @jimmycallin - I believe I updated the PR as requested - but I never did figure out what was causing the tests to fail... I can revisit the PR once I understand what's failing 🤷‍♂️

Dec 11 '18 23:12 masterful

@masterful That would be great! Perhaps a first step could be to migrate it to this new repo? :)

Dec 11 '18 23:12 jimmycallin

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Feb 10 '19 00:02 stale[bot]

I would like if this wasn't closed.

Feb 10 '19 20:02 jimmycallin

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Apr 11 '19 21:04 stale[bot]

Still interested

Apr 11 '19 21:04 jimmycallin

interested +1

Apr 22 '19 07:04 meikidd

interested +1

Jun 16 '19 12:06 Hayko-1

+1

Aug 08 '19 04:08 shay-sundaysky

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

Oct 07 '19 05:10 stale[bot]

Oops, yeah, we should have support for this.

Oct 15 '19 15:10 gkatsev

Guys any idea when this might go live, would be of great help. Thanks in advance.

Apr 13 '20 08:04 saurabhkhandelwal

Really need this. Otherwise have to parse m3u8 file and skip in code.

May 08 '20 11:05 vegetablesalad

@vegetablesalad I did a hack for this, implemented another field as an offset in the API in which I get the stream URL, and then on video meta load I just call this currentTime(offset).

May 08 '20 11:05 saurabhkhandelwal

guys this seems to be supported already but I could be wrong or misunderstanding this issue, if i run: player.tech().vhs.selectPlaylist() I do se the EXT-X-START params that we are settings being parsed

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