From 0505db94e7278b2b7b2eeca3b30259e1e078d7c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nayan Savla <nayan.savla@pluto.tv>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 09:49:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Flushing the Buffer

flushing the buffer if it gets full, there is an append error which causes freeze issues.
---
 src/controller/buffer-controller.js | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/controller/buffer-controller.js b/src/controller/buffer-controller.js
index eb6b006faa1..93e37adb53a 100644
--- a/src/controller/buffer-controller.js
+++ b/src/controller/buffer-controller.js
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ class BufferController extends EventHandler {
         } catch (err) {
           // in case any error occured while appending, put back segment in segments table
           logger.error(`error while trying to append buffer:${err.message}`);
+          this.doFlush(); //We flush the buffer to recover from playback freeze issues.          
           segments.unshift(segment);
           let event = { type: ErrorTypes.MEDIA_ERROR, parent: segment.parent };
           if (err.code !== 22) {