Knowing if the stream is "live"

[hoschiho]

Hey Pillarbox Team
I'm trying to indicate if a radio stream is live or not. There's the seekToDefaultPosition function, which brings the stream to the live edge, but how do i know if i'm already there? Currently i'm doing a calculation with player.duration - player.currentPosition, but this doesn't give me a reliable status. Do you have a better solution for this?

Thanks a lot!
Pascal

[StaehliJ]

Hello @hoschiho

Thanks to have interest of our project.
To know if a content is at live edge if it is your question, you can try:

val window = player.currentTimeline.getWindow(0, Timeline.Window())
val atLiveEdge = player.currentPosition >= window.defaultPositionMs

and

player.isCurrentMediaItemLive

to know if the current item is a live stream.

[hoschiho]

Thanks for the fast answer @StaehliJ
It seems to work a little bit better, however, after some seconds it still gets out of sync and the boolean jumps. With a threshold it's ok for longer, but once you jump back 10 seconds, you have the same behaviour or it still shows that you're live.

[StaehliJ]

Yes for live it can be tricky as the duration and the defaultPosition may change every seconds, you could introduce some threshold to have a more stable experience.

[StaehliJ]

@hoschiho I tryed this in the demo to detect live edge. I convert positions in seconds and it seems to be more stable.

val isPositionAtLiveEdge = currentPlaybackPosition.milliseconds.inWholeSeconds >= (currentDefaultPosition - threshold).milliseconds.inWholeSeconds