During the live session is it possible to go back to the desired place using videojs?

[brightlightkim]

I'm using the live data stream now.. I'm not sure how to use the videojs to go back.

Right now, when it's live the progress bar is even not clickable.

I want to implement a service like a Youtube Livestream that it can go back..

Do video.js has the internal technology with it??

When I searched on the Google, I found 0 answer related this.

[gkatsev]

It depends a bit on the stream. Not all live streams allow seeking. You also need to set liveui: true as an option for video.js

[brightlightkim]

How can I use the seekbar for the live stream on videojs? I'm using the EdgeCast API and it allows seeking I think since it allows a pause and keep recording the live one at the back end.

[brightlightkim]

Thank you for your fast reply btw. :)

[kuolemaaa]

@gkatsev can you elaborate on that? I'm trying different HLS live streaming sources and some of them allows me to seek back and return to live time ( live label is places on the right of the player and it turn red when it follow the live with a seek bar in the middle of controlbar) and with some of them i dont have any seek bar in the controlbar with the live label on the left of the player without any (red)led/indicator.
I would like to know how to generate a HLS stream that allows seekback and return to live.

Honestly, i really dont understand why and how it is a feature of the source stream and not from the player since I guess that a client can seekback in the time interval that he already watched (namely the buffer that the client already downloaded and was shown on screen):

this is videojs 8.23.3

with seekbar:

without seek bar:

is there something i can check in the HLS in order to differentiate them?