Currently our dashboard doesn't even attempt to play back a stream if the API reports that the stream is idle. Obviously we want to fix that field, but in the meantime a stream could be completely functional behind the scenes and we just wouldn't show it to the user. As a failsafe mechanism, I'd propose that the player should always attempt to play the stream in the background even if the stream reports that it's idle.
Currently our dashboard doesn't even attempt to play back a stream if the API reports that the stream is idle. Obviously we want to fix that field, but in the meantime a stream could be completely functional behind the scenes and we just wouldn't show it to the user. As a failsafe mechanism, I'd propose that the player should always attempt to play the stream in the background even if the stream reports that it's idle.