Quality on playback
# streamr
Rachel
05/12/2023, 7:07 PM@Kyle_Cloudflare do you maybe have some ideas on this
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Kyle_Cloudflare
05/12/2023, 11:20 PMWe're investigating some improvements to this flow
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Spenser
05/14/2023, 12:55 AMIf it helps, the behavior we saw was that most 3rd party players that use hls.js seem to hugely underestimate bandwidth when showing a Cloudflare livestream and jump down to very low quality playlists. We had to play with the hls config quite a bit to get it to even show HD ones. https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/blob/master/docs/API.md#fine-tuning
Spenser
05/14/2023, 12:57 AMLooks like someone tried to make a fix here, we haven't tried it but would be great if Cloudflare Stream didn't require all this extra work to use third party players: https://github.com/micohasanen/stream-packer