AV Player Live playback Pause is not working on tvOS 18

In our Apple TV application, we use the native AVPlayer for live playback functionality. Until tvOS 17.6 and during the tvOS 18 beta, the Pause/Resume feature worked as expected, allowing us to pause live playback. However, after updating to tvOS 18.1, the pause functionality no longer works.

The same app still works fine on tvOS 17, but on tvOS 18, attempting to pause live playback has no effect. We reviewed the tvOS 18 release notes but couldn't find any relevant changes or deprecations related to AVPlayer or live playback behavior.

Has there been any change in the handling of live playback or the Pause/Resume functionality in tvOS 18.1? Any guidance or suggestions to address this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Still facing the same issue. Can anyone help with this issue ?

We are facing the dame issue too. Opened an issue in Feedback assistant when tvOS was still in beta, but they are not able to reproduce it with their test stream.

We have multiple live streams, for some of them, the user has the ability to seek backward up to 4 hours before live edge. For those streams, we are able to pause the playback even when the player is very close to the live edge. For the other streams, only the latest 40 seconds are included in the manifest, and we are not able to pause it. So we think that the issue has something to do with that, because it's the only difference between the stream we can pause and the one where we see the issue.

Are you able to reproduce using this Apple test stream? https://ll-hls-test.cdn-apple.com/llhls4/ll-hls-test-04/multi.m3u8. On my side, I was not able to reproduce with this one, and when looking in the manifest, it seems to include the last minute + 5 seconds.

Hello @Ganesh56, @dev.team-in@synamedia.com and @mmassicotte, thank you for your posts. Our engineering teams need to investigate this issue, as resolution may involve changes to Apple's software. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could open a bug report and post the FB number here once you do. Bug Reporting: How and Why? has tips on creating your bug report.

Sure, we already opened a bug report back in September, just before the launch of tvOS 18. Here's the FB number: FB15103008.

AV Player Live playback Pause is not working on tvOS 18
 
 
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