HTML5 player restarts after ad + pause + play
Playback with JWplayer on Amazon devices is challenging.
First, autostart is not respected. I need a block such as
player.on('ready', () => {player.play(true)});
I cannot fire preroll ads in beforePlay event.
player.on('beforePlay', () => {player.playAd(adUrl)})
will only SOMETIMES request an ad. and in those cases, still only sometimes an ad will play. very unpredictable.
In many cases, the most problematic bug occurs. Once a video starts, the first time the player is paused (either by the control bar, or by a player.pause() call), the subsequent play() call will restart the video. If i have a preroll ad scheduled, it plays before the 'restarted' video.
I have a hacky workaround to force jw to seek where I would like, such as:
player.on('firstFrame', () => { player.pause(); setTimeout(() => {player.play(); setTimeout(() => {player.seek(startPosition)}, 200)}, 1000); })
Anyone have similar issues with JWPlayer?
