We're using AVPlayer to stream HLS over http/2, and noticed that while different playlists (media, audio, iframe) are downloaded in parallel to each other, all of the segment fetches within a track are performed sequentially.
i.e. If we wanted to start playback part way through an HLS playlist we'd end up making 3-4 segment fetches first (MAP/init, plus initial segments, plus segment I want to play), and these were all done sequentially, blocking on each other.
Is there any way to make the AVPlayer fetch all of these segments at the same time?
I'm assuming if we added an offline HLS data fetcher we could come up with something, but that's a lot more involved than telling the player it can use up more data, etc.
Thanks
i.e. If we wanted to start playback part way through an HLS playlist we'd end up making 3-4 segment fetches first (MAP/init, plus initial segments, plus segment I want to play), and these were all done sequentially, blocking on each other.
Is there any way to make the AVPlayer fetch all of these segments at the same time?
I'm assuming if we added an offline HLS data fetcher we could come up with something, but that's a lot more involved than telling the player it can use up more data, etc.
Thanks
