Unpublishing and republishing a media track might not be seen by Participants

[paynerc]

Affected Versions

All 1.x and 2.x SDK releases.

Description

Unpublishing and republishing a TVILocalAudioTrack or TVILocalVideoTrack might not be seen by Participants in the following cases:

• Peer-to-Peer: If a Participant is reconnecting, or the unpublish / publish operations occur very quickly.
• Group Room: If the unpublish / publish operations occur very quickly.

Solution

Future mobile SDKs will adopt unified plan, and will also clone Tracks so that this race condition does not occur. In a Group Room, subscribers always see a cloned version of the publisher's Track.

Workaround

• Peer-to-Peer: Destroy the LocalAudioTrack, or LocalVideoTrack and associated Capturer/Source after unpublishing. Create and publish a new Track.
• Group: Wait several seconds after unpublishing a Track to re-publish it.

[sandeep9607]

Currently using version 3.4. do we get any solution to fix this?

[layanavg]

Currently using version 3.7.

We are having the same problem. we are using the peer to peer connection and is clearing the tracks before publishing, even then this occurs.is there any way to fix this

[paynerc]

As mentioned previously, the solution to this will be with the adoption of unified plan. While I cannot give an exact release date for this, I can say that it is actively being developed now. Stay tuned.

Ryan

[rafaelnobrekz]

@kierandonaldson why has this been marked complete when it is still a known issue? Won't it ever be fixed?

[rafaelnobrekz]

Now it's clear it won't be fixed 😭