fast_forward=false sometimes results in video stops loading #69
Description
I mainly use fast_forward = false, because I prefer to skip segments like preview and not fast forward.
But a few times now I encountered a bug where if I use fast_forward=false in order to skip preview the video will stop loading afterwards.
Take for example this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrLj6nc516A
mpv will skip to 00:00:20 (20seconds mark) (Chapter: Preview segment end) and will stop loading the video.
Using the latest mpv and latest yt-dlp
The only solution (that I found) is to use fast_forward = true, but that's not an ideal solution.
Meanwhile, I have a few suggestions to counter this issue:
- If
fast_forward = falsethen wait for video to load the end of the segment to cache and only then skip it
In other words - skip only if segment is cached - If
fast_forward = falsethen wait 1-3 seconds if video is just starting up, for example: if video is currently at 00:00:00 and it needs to skip to 00:00:20 then wait until the current time is 00:00:03 to give time to yt-dlp and mpv to load properly (even if the segment is not cached yet)