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fix(playback-mpv): prevent Live TV startup from triggering mid-stream recovery causing live tv to fail to open - #1757
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…overy MediaKit can report `playing=true` before the underlying mpv playback core is active. The Live TV watchdog then mistakes startup for a mid-stream stall and starts recovery after 8 seconds instead of allowing the 30-second first-frame timeout. For Live TV, suppress MediaKit's initial playing signal until mpv reports `core-idle=no`, indicating that its playback core is active. This does not replace the first-frame watchdog; it only prevents startup from being classified as mid-stream playback too early. If playback is stopped or replaced while a stream is still opening, ignore any startup work that finishes afterward. Other MediaKit startup behavior remains unchanged.
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WalkthroughLive video playback waits for mpv’s ChangesLive playback startup gating
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Live TV startup gating is intended to stop premature mid-stream recovery. The author reports a successful device test. One low-severity earlier concern remains tracked, and the author describes it as intentional behavior. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change does not appear to expand access or privileges. Its main risk is a missed readiness signal causing unnecessary Live TV retries and eventual channel failure. Recovery is bounded, but readiness-signal failure behavior remains unverified. Retained concerns
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🟡 Minor · Gate synchronous isPlaying during Live TV startup. · media_kit_player_backend.dart:2017-2021
lib/playback/media_kit_player_backend.dart:2017-2021
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winGate synchronous
isPlayingduring Live TV startup.
PlaybackManager._waitForMediaReadyand its startup fallback readbackend.isPlayingsynchronously. During Live TV startup,_liveStartupGatecan still be set while MediaKit reportsplaying=true, so these checks can mark media ready beforecore-idle=no.The watchdog itself consumes
playingStream, notisPlaying, so this fix addresses synchronous readiness callers rather than the watchdog recovery path.Suggested fix
bool get isPlaying { _updateStaleState(); - return _isStale ? false : _player.state.playing; + return _isStale || _liveStartupGate != null + ? false + : _player.state.playing; }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 2017-2021: Update the MediaKit backend’s isPlaying getter to
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I left this as-is on purpose. The normal startup-ready check only waits 15 seconds. If we gate that on core-idle too, a slow but healthy Live TV startup could fail there before the 30-second first-frame watchdog gets a chance to do its job. This patch only gates playingStream, which is the signal that was causing the Live TV watchdog to think startup had already finished. @coderabbitai can you re-review this with the 15-second startup-ready timeout and the 30-second Live TV first-frame timeout in mind? |
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The getter and stream serve different purposes here. Keeping startup readiness unchanged is appropriate for this fix. No change is needed for my earlier concern. This conclusion is based on code inspection. I did not run builds or device tests. ✏️ Learnings added
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Summary
Hey, i was testing live tv using mpv player and the live tv 8 second recovery watchdog fired while the stream was loading causing the stream not to connect even though it was healthy. Here is the log.
before_patch_Moonfin_Android_2.6.0_LiveTV_startup.log.txt
The same thing happened again after the channel was re-resolved:
Eventually the recovery budget was exhausted:
MediaKit can report
playing=truebefore the underlying mpv playback core is actually active. The Live TV watchdog then treats startup as if playback had already started and switches to the 8-second mid-stream recovery timeout instead of allowing the 30-second first-frame startup timeout.For Live TV, this change holds MediaKit's initial playing signal until mpv reports
core-idle=no, meaning its playback core is active. This does not replace the first-frame watchdog; it only prevents startup from being classified as mid-stream playback too early.Related Issues
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I retested the same Live TV stream after the patch using MediaKit/mpv.
after_patch_Moonfin_Android_2.7.0_LiveTV_startup.log.txt
It made it past the old 8-second recovery point without the watchdog firing and then played normally.
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