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mkammes's avatar
mkammes
Roku Guru
10 years ago

~2 seconds lost on front of HLS stream, delaying captions

Hello all: I've noticed that when I encode HLS files for my channel, the first ~2 seconds never play....first frame of action is 2 seconds into the video. I noticed that this also throws off the c...
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belltown
Roku Guru
10 years ago
"mkammes" wrote:
Many thanks for the syntax.

It does appear there is a keyframe on the first frame, so apparently this is not the smoking gun. Any thoughts on the start delay I found via Media Info?

No idea, I'm afraid. I would try a different encoder, if you have that option. Perhaps one of the HLS experts from Roku may be able to help.