From 912c14c101b87866b17f6afd2f58ff97b6b2d5d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Piers O'Hanlon <42040737+piersoh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 17:17:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Bypass the minPlaybackRateChange check when newRate=1.0
 (#4481)

- This avoids the situation where the playbackrate can get stuck at non
  1.0 rate, due to the rate change being less than minPlaybackRateChange
---
 src/streaming/controllers/CatchupController.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/streaming/controllers/CatchupController.js b/src/streaming/controllers/CatchupController.js
index e4477760ab..7d5f806eeb 100644
--- a/src/streaming/controllers/CatchupController.js
+++ b/src/streaming/controllers/CatchupController.js
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ function CatchupController() {
                 const minPlaybackRateChange = isSafari ? 0.25 : 0.02 / (0.5 / liveCatchupPlaybackRates.max);
 
                 // Obtain newRate and apply to video model.  Don't change playbackrate for small variations (don't overload element with playbackrate changes)
-                if (newRate && Math.abs(currentPlaybackRate - newRate) >= minPlaybackRateChange) { // non-null
+                if (newRate && Math.abs(currentPlaybackRate - newRate) >= minPlaybackRateChange || newRate == 1.0) { // non-null
                     logger.debug(`[CatchupController]: Setting playback rate to ${newRate}`);
                     videoModel.setPlaybackRate(newRate);
                 }