fix(liveui): seek to live should be immediate and other tweaks (#5650)

- Make sure that we seek to live playback on the first timeupdate
- Do not report that we are not live before playback has started (a timeupdate has been seen)
- Prevent negative seekable increments
- We can seek past the seekable value in the video element, so we use that to seek to live, rather than waiting for a seekable end change.

src/js/control-bar/progress-control/seek-bar.js

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ class SeekBar extends Slider {
     this.on(this.player_, 'timeupdate', this.update);
     this.on(this.player_, 'ended', this.handleEnded);
     this.on(this.player_, 'durationchange', this.update);
+    this.on(this.player_.liveTracker, 'liveedgechange', this.update);
 
     // when playing, let's ensure we smoothly update the play progress bar
     // via an interval
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ class SeekBar extends Slider {
     let duration = this.player_.duration();
 
     if (liveTracker.isLive()) {
-      duration = this.player_.liveTracker.seekableEnd();
+      duration = this.player_.liveTracker.liveCurrentTime();
     }
 
     if (liveTracker.seekableEnd() === Infinity) {
@@ -255,12 +256,7 @@ class SeekBar extends Slider {
       }
     } else {
       const seekableStart = liveTracker.seekableStart();
-      const seekableEnd = liveTracker.seekableEnd();
-
-      if (distance === 1) {
-        liveTracker.seekToLiveEdge();
-        return;
-      }
+      const seekableEnd = liveTracker.liveCurrentTime();
 
       newTime = seekableStart + (distance * liveTracker.liveWindow());
 

src/js/live-tracker.js

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
   }
 
   isBehind_() {
+    // don't report that we are behind until a timeupdate has been seen
+    if (!this.timeupdateSeen_) {
+      return false;
+    }
     const liveCurrentTime = this.liveCurrentTime();
     const currentTime = this.player_.currentTime();
     const seekableIncrement = this.seekableIncrement_;
@@ -49,7 +53,7 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
     // end against current time, with a fudge value of half a second.
     if (newSeekEnd !== this.lastSeekEnd_) {
       if (this.lastSeekEnd_) {
-        this.seekableIncrement_ = newSeekEnd - this.lastSeekEnd_;
+        this.seekableIncrement_ = Math.abs(newSeekEnd - this.lastSeekEnd_);
       }
 
       this.pastSeekEnd_ = 0;
@@ -90,6 +94,21 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
 
     this.on(this.player_, 'play', this.trackLive_);
     this.on(this.player_, 'pause', this.trackLive_);
+    this.one(this.player_, 'play', this.handlePlay);
+
+    // this is to prevent showing that we are not live
+    // before a video starts to play
+    if (!this.timeupdateSeen_) {
+      this.handleTimeupdate = () => {
+        this.timeupdateSeen_ = true;
+        this.handleTimeupdate = null;
+      };
+      this.one(this.player_, 'timeupdate', this.handleTimeupdate);
+    }
+  }
+
+  handlePlay() {
+    this.one(this.player_, 'timeupdate', this.seekToLiveEdge);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -100,6 +119,7 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
     this.pastSeekEnd_ = 0;
     this.lastSeekEnd_ = null;
     this.behindLiveEdge_ = null;
+    this.timeupdateSeen_ = false;
 
     this.clearInterval(this.trackingInterval_);
     this.trackingInterval_ = null;
@@ -107,6 +127,12 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
 
     this.off(this.player_, 'play', this.trackLive_);
     this.off(this.player_, 'pause', this.trackLive_);
+    this.off(this.player_, 'play', this.handlePlay);
+    this.off(this.player_, 'timeupdate', this.seekToLiveEdge);
+    if (this.handleTimeupdate) {
+      this.off(this.player_, 'timeupdate', this.handleTimeupdate);
+      this.handleTimeupdate = null;
+    }
   }
 
   /**
@@ -159,13 +185,13 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
    * Get the live time window
    */
   liveWindow() {
-    const seekableEnd = this.seekableEnd();
+    const liveCurrentTime = this.liveCurrentTime();
 
-    if (seekableEnd === Infinity) {
+    if (liveCurrentTime === Infinity) {
       return Infinity;
     }
 
-    return seekableEnd - this.seekableStart();
+    return liveCurrentTime - this.seekableStart();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -218,13 +244,11 @@ class LiveTracker extends Component {
       return;
     }
 
-    this.player().pause();
-    this.player().addClass('vjs-waiting');
-    this.one('seekableendchange', () => {
-      this.player().removeClass('vjs-waiting');
-      this.player().currentTime(this.seekableEnd());
-      this.player().play();
-    });
+    this.player_.currentTime(this.liveCurrentTime());
+
+    if (this.player_.paused()) {
+      this.player_.play();
+    }
   }
 
   dispose() {

test/unit/live-tracker.test.js

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ QUnit.module('LiveTracker', () => {
   });
 
   QUnit.test('Triggers liveedgechange when we fall behind and catch up', function(assert) {
+    this.player.trigger('timeupdate');
     this.player.currentTime = () => 0;
     this.clock.tick(20000);
 
@@ -94,10 +95,9 @@ QUnit.module('LiveTracker', () => {
   });
 
   QUnit.test('seeks to live edge on seekableendchange', function(assert) {
+    this.player.trigger('timeupdate');
 
     this.liveTracker.seekableIncrement_ = 2;
-    let pauseCalls = 0;
-    let playCalls = 0;
     let currentTime = 0;
 
     this.player.currentTime = (ct) => {
@@ -107,28 +107,13 @@ QUnit.module('LiveTracker', () => {
       return 0;
     };
 
-    this.player.play = () => {
-      playCalls++;
-    };
-
-    this.player.pause = () => {
-      pauseCalls++;
-    };
     this.clock.tick(3000);
 
     assert.ok(this.liveTracker.pastSeekEnd() > 2, 'pastSeekEnd should be over 2s');
 
     this.liveTracker.seekToLiveEdge();
 
-    assert.ok(this.player.hasClass('vjs-waiting'), 'player should be waiting');
-    assert.equal(pauseCalls, 1, 'should be paused');
-    this.player.seekable = () => createTimeRanges(0, 2);
-
-    this.clock.tick(30);
-    assert.equal(this.seekableEndChanges, 1, 'should be one seek end change');
-    assert.equal(currentTime, 2, 'should have seeked to seekableEnd');
-    assert.equal(playCalls, 1, 'should be playing');
-    assert.notOk(this.player.hasClass('vjs-waiting'), 'player should not be waiting');
+    assert.equal(currentTime, this.liveTracker.liveCurrentTime(), 'should have seeked to liveCurrentTime');
   });
 
   QUnit.test('does not seek to to live edge if at live edge', function(assert) {
@@ -169,7 +154,7 @@ QUnit.module('LiveTracker', () => {
   QUnit.test('single seekable, helpers should be correct', function(assert) {
     // simple
     this.player.seekable = () => createTimeRanges(10, 50);
-    assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.liveWindow(), 40, 'liveWindow is 40s');
+    assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.liveWindow(), 40.03, 'liveWindow is 40s');
     assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.seekableStart(), 10, 'seekableStart is 10s');
     assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.seekableEnd(), 50, 'seekableEnd is 50s');
   });
@@ -177,7 +162,7 @@ QUnit.module('LiveTracker', () => {
   QUnit.test('multiple seekables, helpers should be correct', function(assert) {
     // multiple
     this.player.seekable = () => createTimeRanges([[0, 1], [2, 3], [4, 5]]);
-    assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.liveWindow(), 5, 'liveWindow is 5s');
+    assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.liveWindow(), 5.03, 'liveWindow is 5s');
     assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.seekableStart(), 0, 'seekableStart is 0s');
     assert.strictEqual(this.liveTracker.seekableEnd(), 5, 'seekableEnd is 5s');
   });