LIVE stream with seek(-1)

Question

using seek(-1) on SMP to retry for a LIVE stream traces error:
Error: The specified capability is not currently supported
    at org.osmf.media::MediaPlayer/getTraitOrThrow()
    at org.osmf.media::MediaPlayer/seek()
Is there any way to retry for a LIVE stream from SMP?

Answer 1

Hi,
It might not be the obvious place to implement this, but I would do it in a
preloader:
https://sourceforge.net/adobe/smp/svn/LATEST/tree/trunk/samples/preloader/src/Preloader.as
Like this you keep this code decoupled from the player code and it will be easier to synchronize to newer StrobeMediaPlayback versions.
37           public function Preloader()
38           {
39                var playerClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("StrobeMediaPlayback") as Class;
40                var playerInstance:Object = new playerClass();
41                playerInstance.initialize(loaderInfo.parameters, stage, loaderInfo, pluginHostWhitelist);               
42                addChild(playerInstance as DisplayObject);
43           }
You'll need to start a timer and register a player state event handler
timer.start()
playerInstance.addEventListener("mediaPlayerStateChange", onMediaPlayerStateChange);
If the video starts playing, stop the timer. Otherwise call loadMedia() on timeout.
In the long term, this kind of code should reside at the framework level in a NetLoader implementation.
-Andrian