Feature Request: official event for pausing and starting preloading

[szymonhernik]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Which Mux Elements/Packages does this apply to? Select all that apply

mux-player, mux-player-react

Description

I wish there was an option that stops preloading/buffering after you start the video. This would be useful in cases like when the video leaves the screen stop fetching the video data. Currently, I found a walkaround this by doing _hls.stopLoad() and _hls.stopLoad() on the player but I don't think this is official solution.

This has been discussed here as well:
#422

Expected Behavior

Stop and start prerendering video data after calling a function.

[mmcc]

Yeah, agreed, having to dig into the underlying playback tech directly to do this doesn't feel right. Thanks for the feedback, let us think on what the path could look like here.