Start video player at specific play time

[rlansky-percipient]

Hi All,

When I create my video player, I'd like to set the playback to begin at a specific playback time. I have this working by doing the following:

• Initialize the player
• Seek to my specific time

This works. But the problem is that the seek does not occur until after the chunk has been loaded for the start of the video. This takes a couple seconds, then the seek happens, and it takes a couple of seconds to load the chunk at the specified playback time.

The problem is that it takes 2x the amount of time for the player to be in a ready state since it is unnecessarily loading the first chunk. Is there anyway to interrupt this initial load so that I don't have to wait until I can seek to my desired location in the video? Or is there a better way to configure the player so that it loads the correct chunk from the get-go without loading the chunk at the start of the video?

Not sure if version matters, but I'm currently using 3.1.1

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
--Rick

[dsilhavy]

You can use MPD anchors, but you will have to check if this was already supported in dash.js 3.1.1: https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/nightly/samples/advanced/mpd-anchors.html . I recommend to migrate to the latest version 4.3.0.

[rlansky-percipient]

Thanks so much, I tried that and this does work in 3.1.1.