Automatic player creation cannot be disabled in a non-hacky way

[davemevans]

When a <source> tag with type="application/dash.xml" is found in a page, dash.js will attempt to create a player automatically.

This causes a problem for players such as video.js because they use the source tag but expect to control player creation which sometimes ends up creating two players - see #1491 (comment).

There is code which is supposed to disable this , but it is not clear how this would ever be set. It is not documented anywhere and I'm not sure it would work correctly.

We need to either:
a) provide a documented way of disabling automatic player creation
b) remove automatic player creation

#1138 has discussion around this, and appears to have an answer to (a) (#1138 (comment)) but this seems sub-optimal since it requires dash.js specific changes to markup.

Any ideas?

[richardbushell]

@bbcrddave - Does window.dashjs = { skipAutoCreate: true }; hack only work when using dash.all.js rather than dash.mediaplayer.js (can't see this referenced in the code). We generally use this when protection and metrics aren't necessary.

[davemevans]

It shouldn't be necessary at all if you are only including dash.mediaplayer.js as the MediaPlayerFactory is only available in dash.all.js.

Are you seeing an issue?

[richardbushell]

Not seeing an issue with dash.mediaplayer.js, just double-checking my logic that this would be fine. Thanks for confirming.

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