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If this somehow fixes the situations where I have to click pause and un-pause to get a video to actually play, that’d be a step forward for humanity...

• schlipity 7y ago
  I think this is caused by your browser not allowing auto play video, and the web site not accounting for or checking for this state. So by toggling the pause / play button, you get the video control in a state that finally mirrors the browser's state.
  • xt00 7y ago
    I was thinking more of the case where the video was playing fine then it starts buffering and pauses then will sit there indefinitely after buffering unless I intervene by clicking pause unpause etc. Basically caused by an imperfect connection. I think like myself many people have thought, “oh if I just wait it’ll start playing again”.. but I suspect many of the people who make the video sites don’t want each of the client pages to go into a polling loop that spams their servers so they sort of have a back off scheme where if your internet link is not perfect it progressively gets worse and worse and then just sort of sits in slow retry loop. So the user hitting a button basically interrupts the slow retry loop and effectively commands the player instance to try streaming again.