player.play() can be invoked before the firstplay handler is setup?

[jgubman]

This is a 4.6.1 issue, functionality seemed fine in 4.4.3

With a fairly contrived example where we implement autoplay by calling player.play inside the ready handler like:

videojs('example').ready(function() {
  ....  
  this.play();
})

the 'vjs-has-started' class never gets added to this.el_

Also possible that the onLoadstart event is removing 'vjs-has-started', but it looks like the class never gets added because the onFirstPlay event never gets fired.

I hacked around it by adding:

  if (!this.paused()) {
    vjs.trigger(this.el_, { type: 'play', target: this.el_ });
  }

to the onLoadStart function, but not sure that's a great approach

Here's a simple example:
http://jsfiddle.net/2qAeT/1/

Edits by @mmcc: Added code blocks for readability

[mmcc]

This is a great rundown of what's happening in #1237. I haven't had a chance to dig in yet, but when I started seeing these issues I assumed this is where the problem was (I made the changes to reset the player, so this one's on me). Thanks for the description, I'll try and get a fix out as soon as I can, but with @heff getting his learn on at JSConf it will be probably be a minute before we get a minor version update deployed. In the meantime, your fix should solve the problem, so thanks for sharing.

[sharkiller]

yes i run with the same problem with latest builds. 4.6.0 worked fine to me. i needed to force vjs-has-started externally until is fixed. happend the same that #1237 too and need to remove the bug play from the list too.

[mmcc]

This would should be resolved with the merge of #1271.