[BUG] Dynamically added video stops current video playback on iOS

[MantasMikal]

Dynamically added video stops current video playback on iOS

A bit of context
I'm working on an app which has an in-app mini-player which sits above all screens. When going to a screen that has another video, the mini-player video stops. This does not happen on Android devices

dynamic-video-add.mp4

To Reproduce

Clone https://github.com/MantasMikal/jwplayer-react-native-ios-issues

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Go to 'Dynamic Example' screen on iOS
2. Play the first video
3. Hit the "Show video" button to insert a new video. The previous video will stop

Expected behavior
The video should continue playing when a new video is added

Device(s) affected

• Device: iPhone 15
• OS: 17.2

JWP Ticketing

https://support.jwplayer.com/hc/en-us/requests/158594

[Jmilham21]

Hey @MantasMikal, I've created a PR I will merge that addresses part of this issue. We have been calling quite() when creating a new player on iOS, which would stop all active players. This isn't ideal for your use case, and it's unclear why this was done to begin with, so we are removing it.

This will expose a new issue when removing a player where other active players will pause. This is acceptable since having two players playing at once anyway is atypical. I bring it up, though, because the root issue here is having two players using either background audio or PiP at the same time (this is the default behavior on iOS, and if you aren't using it, I'd suggest disabling it with the flags pipEnabled and backgroundAudioEnabled set to false in your config.