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synctv
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15 years ago

HLS via HTTPS

Hi,

In my tests it seems that HLS on HTTPS servers is not working, or I'm doing something wrong. When using roUrlTransfer, we use SetCertificatesFile() to set the cert. However, when using roVideoScreen.SetContentView(), the associative array that is passed in uses a parameter StreamUrls, which is an array of Strings. I pass the proper .m3u8 URL into there (an https://... url), however I get a -5 error:
videoScreenEvent: -5
request failed: The format is not supported or the media is corrupt.

The same code works fine if I use regular http URLs. The .m3u8 and the associated encoded segments are fine as I've tested them with the roku on a regular http server.

I'm using v2.7 build 857.

Please advise, thank you,
SyncTV
Roku Developer Program

2 Replies

  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    15 years ago
    Are you using SetCertificatesFile on the roVideoScreen? If you need that for the roUrlTransfer, I'd imagine you'd need the same for the roVideoScreen. It implements the same ifHttpAgent interface, so the code should be pretty much identical.
  • mike_ryan's avatar
    mike_ryan
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    Ay make sure you're setting a certificate file

    We do it like so:
    screen = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")
    screen.SetMessagePort(port)
    screen.SetContent(vid)
    screen.SetCertificatesFile("pkg:/source/certs/mycert.pem")
    screen.AddHeader("x-roku-reserved-dev-id","ANYTHING")

    Note we're not actually using HTTPS on the stream itself we're actually using it for protecting an AES key but the code should carry over.