Stream Tokens Time Out During Playback

[joncameron]

Description

Stream tokens can expire and cause media playback to stop partway through a stream. This leads to situations where users coming back to a page after a period of inactivity are required to do a full reload to continue streaming media. This can also happen during normal playback for very long items which have a duration greater than the life the of token. Stream tokens should be refreshed automatically during an active session to prevent this scenario from occurring.

Previous Implementation

- https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/blob/v7.6/app/assets/javascripts/refresh_token.js.coffee

Done Looks Like

• When the current stream token is expired, the application automatically requests and begins using a new and valid token
• Investigation into ideal way to do this between Ramp and Avalon; new issues created afterward

[joncameron]

Previous implementation had JS on the page to fetch fresh tokens. How should we handle this in the interplay between Ramp and Avalon? If Ramp can catch the Video.js message about being denied a stream, having auth code to handle that case could be something.

We could also handle this outside of Ramp—Avalon refreshing the stream tokens and then passing it to Ramp.

To implement in Ramp, auth information would need to be written into the manifest.

Could be a good topic for team Swarm time.