The poster file gets downloaded several times

[Tobi Reif]

The poster file gets downloaded three times.

Here's a screenshot (Chrome):

I had found the ticket #1355 "Poster is loaded twice", but in this case here it gets downloaded three times.

The page is password-protected, but I can answer any questions regarding my Plyr setup.

Here's the code:

HTML:

<video playsinline="playsinline" muted="muted"
  poster="images/video_cover.png">
  <source src="the_video.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>
</video>

JS:

function initPlayer() {
  var player = new Plyr("video", {
    iconUrl: "../../vendor/plyr/plyr.svg",
    controls: ["play-large", "play", "progress", "current-time"],
    blankVideo: "../../vendor/plyr/blank.mp4",
    fullscreen: {enabled: false},
    hideControls: false,
    storage: {enabled: false}
  });
}

window.addEventListener("load", initPlayer);

It would be great if the poster file would get downloaded only once, max twice, but not three times and one after the other (see the screenshot).

[Tobi Reif]

Perhaps Plyr could detect whether it already got loaded, and in that case not download it again?

[Tobi Reif]

It would be great if the poster file would get downloaded only once.

[dan]

I am seeing this three times as well. Twice from plyr and once from the dom. This is for a hosted video.

I wonder what is the benefit of the progressive enhancement to have the poster set as a DIV in addition to on the video element? Is the use-case mostly for youtube, vimeo, etc?

[Tobi Reif]

... and could there be an option for disabling anything that causes the additional downloads? (I also have a hosted video scenario.)

[Tobi Reif]

It would be great if this could get fixed.

[Sam Potts]

This should be fixed in v3.5.7 but report back if not 👍

[Tobi Reif]

I tried v3.5.7, but there were two issues:

The poster file gets downloaded two times. That's better than three times (thanks!), but one time would be better. Please re-open this ticket - it should stay open until the poster file gets downloaded only once.

The other issue: The player at https://tobireif.com/posts/layout_fun_with_css_grid/ gets destroyed.

Before:

With v3.5.7:

It would be really great if you could ensure that updates don't break things 😀

The release notes contain this text: "This update contains CSS changes." I'd rather be able to update Plyr without having to dig through all the CSS changes and adapt my CSS.

Also reported at #1680 .

[Sam Potts]

It gets loaded once for me on https://plyr.io/ - anyone else seeing issues? If they are then I'll re-open the issue. Feel free to dig into the code to take a look.

[Tobi Reif]

Chrome screenshot of https://tobireif.com/posts/layout_fun_with_css_grid/ :

Chrome screenshot of https://plyr.io/ :

[Tobi Reif]

Firefox downloads it just once. I'll report the Chrome issue.

[Sam Potts]

It may be something else. I’ll check Chrome.

[Tobi Reif]

If you find anything (eg a Plyr fix for the issue observed in Chrome), please also post the info at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1050569 , so that they can close their ticket if it is/was a Plyr-issue and not a Chrome-issue.

[Tobi Reif]

At https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1050569 they requested a network log capture ( https://www.chromium.org/for-testers/providing-network-details ), and then wrote "That log only shows it being downloaded once".