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Show useful error message when there's a connection issue.

Hi,

I'm currently developing a HLS streaming service.

When I disable my wifi (simulate an internet outage), I got an "TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined" error.
Which is nonsense to the users (not even to the developers).

I want to show a custom error message explaining that there's is a connection issue, but there's no way to detect this kind of error.

I know there's "reason" property in "buffer" event, but the "buffer" event never triggered in my case.

Is there a way to handle this?

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Jessenia

JW Player Support Agent  
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You can try the jwplayer().on('error') call. We have a demo of a custom error message on the player at https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-player/demos/basic/custom-error/

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John Huang

User  
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Hi, Jessy

Thanks for replying.

After more experiment with a minimal setup of the latest version JWPlayer, I was not able reproduce the problem that I report.
So the problem is likely be on my part.

Thanks again.

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These are the full stack trace of the error I got, In case someone need it.

provider.caterpillar.js:2 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined(…)t.Manifest.e.attemptSync_
@ provider.caterpillar.js:2(anonymous function)
@ provider.caterpillar.js:2w.each.w.forEach
@ jwplayer.js:1t.Manifest.e.syncLiveLevels_
@ provider.caterpillar.js:2t.Manifest.e.appendManifestInfoToLevels_
@ provider.caterpillar.js:2(anonymous function)
@ provider.caterpillar.js:2

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