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Playlist switching causes flicker

Hello!

I'm facing a problem with multiple playlists.
The second video of every playlist is the first video of the next playlist.
To achieve this, I'm loading the new playlist using jwplayer().on('playlistItem', loadNewPlaylist);

The issue is that upon completion of the first video(p1v1), the second starts(p1v2) and keeps playing for a second and then the next playlist is loaded, which stops the video and (p2v1) starts playing.
This causes a flicker while switching of playlists. Any workaround for this?

(p - playlist; v - video)

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Randy

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hello,

I would like to look into this issue for you. Can you potentially provide me a sample of your page via a link with no external elements or CSS so I can review this? This provides me a clearer idea of what could be causing the issue from a JW Player embed perspective. I’ve also included a link on how to submit a reproduction page to our support team that may be useful as well: https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2186238-troubleshooting-%E2%80%94-creating-a-reproduction-page

Randy

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Vaibhav Jain

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Hi Randy,

Please check this url for the sample.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/YGOLaj

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Randy

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hello Vaibhav,

Looking into your code it seems you are loading the playlistTemp item several times in the player embed and potentially overriding the variable. I am not sure this is intentional but if you create a basic playlist embed with no other code does the sequence work as expected? There could be a problem with the custom code here and how it interacts with the streams.

Kindly,

Randy

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Vaibhav Jain

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Yes, it works fine when there is only one playlist.
I want the playlist to display the recommended videos based on the current video being played. So whenever a video changes, a new playlist is also loaded.
For every playlist, a new playlist will be loaded when the second video of that particular playlist starts. And this new playlist starts playing interrupting that second video.
Please suggest an approach.
I hope I'm clear.

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Randy

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hello Vaibhav,

This will probably require some internal code development on your end. You could however potentially receive a similar result by using our Recommended Videos feature which could automatically populate this information for you using intelligent algorithms from our servers.

Randy

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