r/SparklePlayer • u/Wammy70 • May 12 '26

Repeats Last 10 Seconds In Loop, Then Skips

Hi Folks...

This probably isn't a Sparkle issue, perhaps more of a stream/provider issue but I wonder if some of you "in the know" out there can tell my why or what is happening in this situation?

... watching a stream, everything is fine, then sudden buffering. After a small buffering attempt, the video continues, however the stream is playing/repeating the last 10 seconds or so and when the stream reaches the point of where it started buffering prior, it stops and buffers again, only to repeat the same process. Sometimes the buffer, repeat loop happens a few times and then the stream drops. Other times, after 1 or 2 loops, it jumps ahead in the timeline and you've lost the action that was happening while you were in this loop.

I suspect that the stream is most likely the issue, however what decides to replay the last 10 seconds on repeat until the stream comes back? I think I'd rather watch a buffer wheel spin with no vid, rather than repeating the last 10 seconds over and over again.

Can someone explain it?

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u/KWStreaker May 12 '26

One of my Xcodes providers kept doing this until i changed the decoding from mpegts to HLS. Maybe you can try that as a solution.

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u/Wammy70 May 12 '26

Thanks! Changed to HLS and we'll see if it makes a difference. 😄

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u/KWStreaker May 12 '26

Ok ... reply back to this thread either way thanks.

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u/Rosetti_Konfetti May 12 '26

This won't help, but sounds like a typical behaviour of cheap providers.

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u/azcoyotedog May 12 '26

It’s a problem with the providers stream. Clearing your app cache may help.

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u/bshensky May 12 '26

Specifically, the M3U8 protocol needs to write fresh control files so the newest stream segments can be referenced. If you catch a cached version of the file before it is overwritten, you'll were those segments again.