Seeking to a spot outside the current remux window restarts the hls.js
session, which detaches/re-attaches the media and fires 'emptied' — that
silently flips the element to paused WITHOUT a 'pause' event. Because the
play flag only tracked 'play'/'pause', the button kept showing 'playing'
while the video had actually stopped, and on a slow (proxied) load the
post-manifest play() could be rejected, leaving it stuck paused until a
click on the video.
Root cause confirmed by instrumenting the media events during a seek:
emptied(paused=true) with no accompanying pause event.
Fix: resync the play flag from video.paused on the settling events
(emptied/canplay/seeked) so the button can never contradict reality;
preserve the pre-seek play/pause intent through the session restart
(loadSession takes resumePlay); and retry play once on 'canplay' so a
rejected early play() still resumes. Verified on :8080 — backward seek
(session restart), forward seek (native) and manual pause all keep the
icon in sync (0 desync samples) and resume correctly.
peter
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