isLive method

Description

Returns true when the currently-loaded content can be considered a “live” content.

Returns false either when not playing a live content or when no content is loaded yet.

A content is considered as live if at least one of its media playlist:

• may continue to have future segments (i.e. no EXT-X-ENDLIST tag)
• is neither of the VOD nor EVENT playlist type (e.g. no EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE tag)

Written in another way, a live content is a content whose old segments might be removed and for which new segments may be generated in the future.

Consequently its “minimum position” and “maximum position” may evolve over time.

Note that a content can stop being a live content, e.g. when the live is finished. In that case, isLive will return false.

You can be warned when isLive’s value might have changed by listening to the ContentInfoUpdate event. You can also know when it is first set after a load call either by listening to this same ContentInfoUpdate event or by calling isLive when reaching the "Loaded" state.

Syntax

const isLive = player.isLive();

• return value:

boolean: Return true if the current content may be considered a live content.