[Bug] Videojs infinite retries / not refreshing

[tenpura-shrimp]

It looks like videojs has infinite retries, and they happen quite rapidly. When the retries go on for a while, the instance will likely get rate limited by google. We should probably limit these or take some other action.

I saw two scenarios where this happened:

1. Leaving a dash video open for too long, so that the manifest expires. Videojs will retry fetching the chunks but never fetch an updated manifest. This leads to unlimited requests to /videoplayback until the window is closed.
2. A bad video url gets cached in the database. I'm not sure how this happens in the first place, but if this happens the video player will keep retrying on latest_version until the database gets refreshed.

[tenpura-shrimp]

related videojs issues:
videojs/video.js#5849
videojs/http-streaming#1064

[SamantazFox]

@unixfox that should be fixed now, right?

[unixfox]

Not really, I have seen that happening. The thing is that it's not really a bug but more like a feature in order to retry when something fails.

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