When playing an HLS stream containing #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY markers, AVPlayerViewController flashes its playback controls for a second or two. Our streams make heavy use of this HLS feature to dynamically assemble programs and this issue disrupts our seamless playback experience.
I have filed a bug (rdar://22728325) about this but wanted to see if anyone from could Apple could comment on this matter. Is this expected behavior for AVPlayerViewController? Our existing iOS app doesn't use AVKit so I'm somewhat unfamiliar with its behavior. I hope this isn't the expected behavior as AVKit wouldn't be feasible for our app and building a custom playback UI seems prohibitive on tvOS.