Change default timeout network requests

[avelad]

Closes: #1578

We are having problems with Chromecast-CAF and since it uses ShakaPlayer it is necessary to change this here by default.

[joeyparrish]

Changing a default would potentially impact many different apps. I'm not worried about this particular change too much, but have you tried reconfiguring CAF instead?

[avelad]

The problem is that in CAF there is no way to configure this, so I would like to change it here.

[valotvince]

👍 We experience the same issues in CAF, 30s seems to be a nice limit (on our side we put 15s to allow ABR to quickly switch of representation and prevent a stream interruption)

[avelad]

@joeyparrish can you review it?

[avelad]

It's a simple change, I hope it can be revised soon... :(

[joeyparrish]

I'm sorry for the delays. We are understaffed at the moment and badly behind on many things. The reminders are appreciated and they do help.

This change should be fairly benign, but will first appear in v3.1, to try to avoid any surprise changes in behavior in the release branches.

However, I will discuss this with the CAF team internally and see if there's a better way to get you what you need before v3.1. Changing Shaka is not an ideal way to address a shortcoming of the CAF API.

[shaka-bot]

All tests passed!

[avelad]

@joeyparrish Do you have any news from the CAF team?

[joeyparrish]

They have agreed to adopt this new default in their next release, whether or not they are shipping with Shaka v3.1. There is an ongoing conversation about some way to offer configuration in CAF to allow apps to choose their own timeouts.

I don't know when the next CAF release will come out, but it won't be in 2020. They are on a production freeze right now, and many on the team are on vacation for the rest of the year.

[avelad]

Thanks @joeyparrish !

[avelad]

@joeyparrish , do you have a date when the CAF team is going to include this change in timeouts?

We have some problems in production with this, and the customer is asking me to know when the change will be available.

[joeyparrish]

It appears that their next release will be in February, but I don't have a more specific date from them. They told me there will be some multi-week preview/beta period in which partners can opt-in before the next release is pushed to everyone. I don't know what the process for that will be.