Adding new example file to show manual load with custom settings

[wilaw]

Example shows how to implement some commonly requested features:

• disable console logs
• enable fast switching
• turn off segment loading while paused
• disable autostart

Also replaces dash.edgesuite.net references with dash.akamaized.net and then removes hard-coded protocol for dash.akamaized.net and vm2.dashif.org

[nicosang]

Hi @wilaw,

could you, please, take a look at DashHandlerSpec unit test? It fails after this PR.

Thanks,
Nico

[davemevans]

could you, please, take a look at DashHandlerSpec unit test? It fails after this PR.

The problem is that the base url resolution is failing because the dummy representation doesn't have all the required information, which causes the request generation to fail. This was/is masked by having a fully-qualifed URL for the segment.

For the purposes of the test, the URL is unimportant (the semgents are never actually requested) so it's probably easiest to simply make it something like http://www.example.com/init.mp4 rather than pointing to a real world resource.

[wilaw]

@nicosang - thanks for noticing and apologies for breaking that unit test.

@nicosang @bbcrddave
Upon further thought, as part of PR #1986, I had removed protocols from all instances of //dash.akamaized.net, as a precursors to getting the reference player not to throw mixed-content warnings for the majority of test vectors when loaded under https. I now think a better approach would be to actually hard code these all to https. This would be robust over both http and https usage of the ref player, it looks more conventional in the example files/readme/playerUI and it would fix the unit test issue noted above. If you agree, I will create a new PR to this end.

[nicosang]

it's ok for me.

[wilaw]

#2001 should resolve this issue.