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Hi,
found a bug with alternative sources plugin.
When on alternative source (ex. server 2) there’s no VTT thumbnails in seekbar and the Quality switching seems not to work.
Tested in: Chrome and Firefox (latest build)
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Hello Denny,
I tried replicating your issue and I can confirm, that I have also experienced both of these bugs.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention! I will forward this to our development team and we will work on a fix, then get back to you.
Thanks,
MariaHello Denny,
new FV Player Alternative Sources 7.4.39.727 has been released. Please also upgrade to FV Player Pro 7.4.39.727 and switch it to beta: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta
Then at least the quality switching will work fine after switching the video server.
I’m not sure about the VTT thumbnails though. We only have a single box to input the URL. Perhaps it could work if we finish the geo IP functionality I mentioned in: https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/requests-and-feedback/alternative-sources-randomize-server
Thanks,
MartinHi Martin,
thank you. I’ve tried it a little bit:
Test:
HLS stream: *.m3u8 AES encoded file.
server1: playing fine
server2: playing fineas soon as I stop the webserver on server 1 the video stops…. It takes almost 30 seconds for switching to the alternate
server. Could you improve that to 5 seconds or the time which is set in the plugin settings for skipping to next server.Thank you! Denny
Hello Denny,
you replied to the forum email notification and we only noticed that recently, hence the delay in my reply here:
The timeout is indeed set to 30 seconds. But I see that we could improve that – if there is a backup alternative video URL the timeout could be shorter. Or it could check time required to load the previous video segments and if there is a segment which takes much longer to load it could already try the alternative video.
Thanks,
Martin
