Detecting player stall after max attempts reached

[lericson-ideanova]

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Hello, I am trying to detect when the player has stalled and will not recover in order to display an error message. Based on the current network errors, I do not see how shaka notifies that this situation has been reached.

I tried detecting network errors, It looks like ATTEMPTS_EXHAUSTED would be dispatched when player is stalled and run out of attempts, but this is not dispatched as its an internal error. I also tried setting streaming.retryParameters.maxAttempts = 5 and counting the number of HTTP_ERRORs thinking it would line up, but these do not match the number of retries, and the errors stop logging when there is buffer left.

I also see the docs have a page for StallDetector, but did not provide any examples or documentation on how to use it.

Is there not a way to detect if max attempts is reached or that there is no buffer left and we are stalled? Is there a way I can surface the ATTEMPTS_EXHAUSTED error to detect this case?

[avelad]

Currently it is not possible to detect this with any Shaka Player events, I'll leave it to @theodab to decide if we should add this or not.

[shaka-bot]

@lericson-ideanova Does this answer all your questions? If so, would you please close the issue?