[Question] Best way to pass options to sourcehandler?

[nickygerritsen]

This is not really an issue, but more of a question.

Say I want to pass options to a sourcehandler. In particular, I want to be able to pass an option to videojs-contrib-dash whether it should use the portal to limit bitrate (i.e. call setLimitBitrateByPortal on the Dash.js MediaPlayer).

What is the best way to do this?
I know I could pass it as an option during player initialization in the html5 tech, but then the way to get to it would be to call tech.options() in the source handler and apparently that function is going away.

Normally you'd set the options you need during the construction of a component, but that is not really possible with a source handler I think. So what is a good way?

[gkatsev]

Sounds similar to #2616.
But I think we don't have an answer for you right now :).
The way that contrib-hls chose to go is to attach a hls object to the tech that you can then get and modify the options on. If you have any suggestions for solving this in a good way that could be applied to all source handlers, we'd be happy to hear and work on it together with you.

[nickygerritsen]

Hmmm interesting, didn't see #2616 yet.
I do have some idea, but will type it there as I do think it makes more sense there

[gkatsev]

Sounds good. Should we close this then and make sure that #2616 is updated to address updating options after initialization as well?

[nickygerritsen]

I think what I want would even work without updating options after initialization. Or at least, if you define "initialization" as "when calling handleSource".

Anyway, I think this can be closed.

[gkatsev]

Yeah, I mean that we need a good way of giving options to source handlers on initialization but also afterwards.
Closing, we can continue discussion in #2616.