Lagging Behind control

[yuroyami]

ExoPlayer does not provide a good set of methods or interfaces to control videos' playback speed. However, a way to control speed should be implemented in order to port the following settings:

When the main user lags behind:

• Checkable option: Fast-forward when lagging behind (on by default on Desktop).
• Checkable option: Don't slow down or rewind others when lagging behind (off on Desktop, and is still experimental).

When others lag behind:

• Checkable option: Slow down on minor desync (On by default on Desktop)
• Checkable option: Rewind on major desync (Already implemented on Android, even rewind threshold is adjustable, but there has to be an option to disable it)

[RaXorX]

Has there been progress on this?

Edit: Asking because the custom skip option doesn't work well when the default behaviour of syncplay keeps rewinding the time. It interferes with it heavily especially if playing a network file. I presume that it'd be a lot better to enforce the custom skip to send it as the current playing time to other clients.

[yuroyami]

@RaXorX I haven’t tackled this yet as it would complicate the syncplay protocol and require adding support to every player. Pull requests are always welcome, but I imagine something this big would be quite a job. I might get around to it when I’m back working on this project. In the meantime, could you explain exactly what issue you’re running into? By custom skip button, do you mean the one that lets you jump forward by a user-defined duration? If so– and correct me if I am wrong, as you jump forward, it pulls you back to the original point of time because the leap is too large. Right?