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bandal's avatar
bandal
Visitor
12 years ago

HLS Stream Issue in Playback

I am using Videoplayer and noticed something odd lately.
My link plays in VLC Live with <streamUrl>http://180.250.29.21/jhos/metrotv/Playlist.m3u8</streamUrl>
but on the Roku it is no longer live, but starts 4 1/2 hours before becoming live. Is there a way to correct this somewhere?
ice time stamp
Try it out and you can see what I mean. Using a Roku2 XS and have not had this issue before. Try VLC and notice the time and play same link on the Roku and notice the time.
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8 Replies

  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    12 years ago
    Have you marked the stream as "Live"? If not, add that to the metadata. If that still doesn't fix it, you could add a PlayStart value that's absurdly high to force the player to seek to the end of the playlist.
  • bandal's avatar
    bandal
    Visitor
    12 years ago
    How to make the PlayStart Value to the High Value to force it to beginning?
  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    12 years ago
    Add "PlayStart: 999999999" to the metadata for the stream object you pass to the video screen.
  • bandal's avatar
    bandal
    Visitor
    12 years ago
    In my appDetailScreen.brs is where my PlayStart is: How would I change it here to really make it work? I also have VOD in my xml files versus live links. 

    ElseIf msg.isButtonPressed()
    					Print"ButtonPressed"
    					If msg.GetIndex()=1
    						If showlist[showindex].contentformat<>"audio"
    							PlayStart=RegRead(showList[showIndex].ContentId)
    							If PlayStart<>invalid
    								showList[showIndex].PlayStart=PlayStart.ToInt()
    							End If
    							'Add 02-27-13
    							If showList[showIndex].StreamUrls[0]="INVALID"
    							ShowErrorDialog("No Video Available Yet")
    							Else
    							'end 02-27-13
    							showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
    						End If
    						End If
    					End If
  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    12 years ago
    To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:

    time=createobject("rodatetime")
    now=time.asseconds() 
    episode.playstart=now+1800 
    videoobject.setcontent(episode)
    videoobject.play()


    - Joel
  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    12 years ago
    "RokuJoel" wrote:
    To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:

    time=createobject("rodatetime")
    now=time.asseconds() 
    episode.playstart=now+1800 
    videoobject.setcontent(episode)
    videoobject.play()


    - Joel

    Interesting. So, does that mean live streams use the date for PlayStart instead of the duration that VOD streams use?
  • drobinson's avatar
    drobinson
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    "RokuJoel" wrote:
    To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:

    time=createobject("rodatetime")
    now=time.asseconds() 
    episode.playstart=now+1800 
    videoobject.setcontent(episode)
    videoobject.play()


    - Joel


    Will this allow the video on demand to still start from the beginning?

    Can you show where I would post this code within the appDetailScreen.brs ?

    I'm pretty new to this and am still learning my way around bright script.

    Thank you for any help! I've been reading lot's of RokuJoel posts these past few days! 😄 😄