Hello @litetex, can I take on this issue?

I understand why this feature should to be removed: it feel indeed useless to use them when playing a livestream close to the live edge.

But depending on the streams and/or platerforms, you may be able to rewind for a pretty good time, like some minutes or maybe even more (with TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#780, up to 1 hour for some streams on YouTube, thanks to the HLS manifest for the iOS client(s))!

So, I don't think that's a good idea at all. If we were not able to rewind on every livestream (that's the case for instance on some YouTube livestreams, only when creators disable this ability), I would be agree with this removal, but here I am not.

@TiA4f8R

I'm pretty sure that a normal user will in 99% of all cases be annoyed if the livestream is not live and the stream e.g. starts buffering (>1x) or he gets the part where e.g. football/soccer team xy scores a hit 2mins too late (<1x).

If we don't hide the UI we should at least set the speed (at best temporarily for the live stream only) to 1x and let the UI still be visible.

Maybe we should also differ between "post" live streams and "live" live streams.

Perhaps the speed option can be hidden + reset to 1 when on the live edge, and shown otherwise? That way it can still be used after seeking the beginning of the stream or watching an archive, but also won't cause buffering on the live edge.

Maybe we should also differ between "post" live streams and "live" live streams.

That's almost not possible for me, especially because you only know this when fetching the manifest/content.

If we don't hide the UI we should at least set the speed (at best temporarily for the live stream only) to 1x and let the UI still be visible.

That's for me the thing we should go to.

Also, ExoPlayer has special speed capabilities for livestreams (maybe not in the version we are using, but that's probably not an issue because we will update soon to one of the latest): https://exoplayer.dev/doc/reference/com/google/android/exoplayer2/MediaItem.LiveConfiguration.html

So is there anything for @KosOrKosm to do right now, or should they wait until the Exo 2.17.1 PR is merged?