removeAllListeners prevents destroy from functioning properly

[matkokvesic]

What version of Hls.js are you using?

1.5.15

What browser (including version) are you using?

128.0.6613.138 (Official Build) (arm64)

What OS (including version) are you using?

macOS 15

Test stream

https://test-streams.mux.dev/x36xhzz/x36xhzz.m3u8

Configuration

{}

Additional player setup steps

Calling hls.destroy() doesn't detach previously attached html video element.

In case where same

Checklist

• The issue observed is not already reported by searching on Github under https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/issues
• The issue occurs in the stable client (latest release) on https://hlsjs.video-dev.org/demo and not just on my page
• The issue occurs in the latest client (main branch) on https://hlsjs-dev.video-dev.org/demo and not just on my page
• The stream has correct Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers (CORS)
• There are no network errors such as 404s in the browser console when trying to play the stream

Steps to reproduce

Example code to reproduce issue:

HTML:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hls.js@latest"></script>
<video id="video" controls></video>

JS:

let video = document.getElementById('video');
let hls = new Hls();
hls.loadSource('https://test-streams.mux.dev/x36xhzz/x36xhzz.m3u8');
hls.attachMedia(video);

hls.on(Hls.Events.ERROR, function (event, data) {
  console.log(event, data)
});


setTimeout(() => {
  hls.removeAllListeners();
  // hls.detachMedia(); without this line we will see getAppendedFrag (and other) errors
  hls.destroy();
  
  console.log('attaching video element with new hls instance')
  
  let hls2 = new Hls();
  hls2.loadSource('https://test-streams.mux.dev/x36xhzz/x36xhzz.m3u8');
  hls2.attachMedia(video); 
}, 3000)

1. Just hit play button after video reloads to get console errors

Expected behaviour

No errors

What actually happened?

Errors in console produced by "hanging" destroyed hls.js instance.

Console output

hls.js@latest:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getAppendedFrag')
    at r.getAppendedFrag (hls.js@latest:1:137654)
    at r.checkFragmentChanged (hls.js@latest:1:400901)
    at r.onTickEnd (hls.js@latest:1:385486)
    at r.doTick (hls.js@latest:1:385393)
    at e.tick (hls.js@latest:1:104570)
    at r.onMediaPlaying (hls.js@latest:1:389727)

Chrome media internals output

No response

[robwalch]

destroy calls removeAllListeners after detachMedia because internal components listen for DESTROYING to clean up. The TypeError above is caused by calling removeAllListeners before destroy externally.

[robwalch]

Do not call removeAllListeners before destroy.

[robwalch]

This issue can be categorized as a bug if you change the title to “removeAllListeners prevents destroy from functioning properly”. It is categorized as “works as expected” because destroy always calls detachMedia.

It’s a good catch and something worth looking into improving. I don't believe we have a documented method for removing only external listeners. That is not a supporter feature.

[matkokvesic]

Thanks! Title changed to identify a bug in this issue.