Streams with multiple videos only display first in Chrome 85 on Android

[SuperSandro2000]

When trying to view a live stream with multiple videos Chrome 85 only displays the first. For example if the stream has slides and the speaker chrome only displays the slides with no way to view the speaker video. Works fine in Firefox 80 and Bromite 85 on Android

[iSchluff]

The player switches between video qualities based on the estimated bitrate of your connection.

For C3VOC-streams the lowest quality may be slides-only but you can always try to force a higher quality using the player controls. Do those work for you?

[SuperSandro2000]

There is currently no stream live with slides but I tested this in a 1 minute time span on the same device with the same network conditions and couldn't get it to work in Chrome.

[iSchluff]

Did you try the controls? They also show you which stream is currently selected. The automatic switching can take quite a while sometimes.

Even if no "real" slides are currently present it is possible to differentiate them because of the lower framerate and incease in artifacts on the slidestream.

[SuperSandro2000]

I played a bit around with the controls but it probably took to long for me to notice the difference or I didn't wait long enough.

I would test more but right now there is no live stream live and I have no idea how to test this.

Anyhow the slide stream shouldn't be the default in Chrome Mobile if it isn't the default all other browsers. Not sure if past settings changed that though.

[iSchluff]

Well the default switching behaviour is automatic, but we have actually provide a default bitrate estimate that selects a higher quality than slides on the start. If the switching behaviour itself is broken then that would be a problem with https://github.com/google/shaka-player

[SuperSandro2000]

I doubt that a google product wouldn't work on Chrome. Not sure where to go from here. If I remember I test it again when the next livestream is live.