<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">I'm experimenting with the HLS plugin, and have found that playback behaves much, much better if HLS segments begin with a key frame. Without key frames at the beginning I get skipping, dropped frames, and other glitches.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm wondering why that is? I'm imagining that the HLS demuxer is simply responsible for fetching new content and providing it in a continuous stream to the next element in the pipeline. If that's the case then the exact boundaries between segments wouldn't matter.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I definitely understand that for seeking, keyframes at the start of segments is crucial. But I'm just doing live streaming.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dave</div></div>