Play() does not start the video when called before 'playerLoadedMetadata'

[Thomasvdam]

We ran into this issue with Smooth streams, but it could be an issue on the core level. Worth investigating if we can reproduce this with other media types.

Turns out this is by design. However, it would by nice if there is a property we can use to check whether we need to wait or not before we call play.

Something that basically boils down to this:

const state = { canPlay: false };

player.one('itemLoaded' () => { state.canPlay = true; });

function onUserClicksPlay() {
    if (state.canPlay) {
        player.play();
    } else {
        player.one('itemLoaded', () => { player.play(); });
    }
}