HLS (MPEG-TS) questions
Hey, We're trying to start an HTTP live stream with one .TS segment in it. What we're seeing, is that it appears that the Roku is attempting to download the entire segment before it begins playback...
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"RokuMarkn" wrote:
From your comments I'm not sure if you're doing this or not, but I just want to make clear that you should never have an m3u8 file point to a TS file which is still being written to. The m3u8 must point to static, unchanging TS files. The correct way to append to a live stream is to update the m3u8 to point to new (but still static) TS files.
--Mark
Mark, thanks for your help on this one. I finally got it working correctly. Something that wasn't obvious (at least to me), is that you need to explicitly set the MEDIASEQUENCE each time the playlist is retrieved. I wasn't doing this and the Roku would "load" whenever it went to download the new version of the playlist. As soon as I added that bit -- it started working correctly.
Thanks again,
RT
