From e0670585fb01c22baa1e6657cbac6f2fc77cd171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabe Kangas <gabek@real-ity.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:59:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Experiment with starting with lowest quality and moving up
 from there

---
 webroot/js/utils.js | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/webroot/js/utils.js b/webroot/js/utils.js
index 5c6b607eb..19734b1b9 100644
--- a/webroot/js/utils.js
+++ b/webroot/js/utils.js
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ const VIDEO_SRC = {
 const VIDEO_OPTIONS = {
   autoplay: false,
   liveui: true, // try this
+  preload: 'auto',
+  html5: {
+    vhs: {
+      // used to select the lowest bitrate playlist initially. This helps to decrease playback start time. This setting is false by default.
+      enableLowInitialPlaylist: true,
+
+    }
+  },
   liveTracker: {
     trackingThreshold: 0,
   },