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newpic
Visitor
14 years ago

how to add live channel to Roku?

I have a live streaming account with dacast.com How do I create a live channel to roku player?
I look at the sample video player that came with the SDK. I can play video file from the website (Url). But I can't
do a live. Per the SDK develop guide said it support and can be done, but I can't find any example how to do it?
Is there anyone can help point out to me?
example from the sample
<streamUrl>http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/ElizabethGilbert_2009_480.mp4</streamUrl>

how do you do for a live streaming channel? live channel does not show a web link.
Please help me.
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  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    14 years ago
    Look at the apple test stream example in the simplevideoplayer example.

    You need to figure out if your streaming account lets you stream to IOS devices like iphone/ipad. If so, then you would figure out what that url (typically ending in .m3u8) is and plug it into simplevideoplayer example, you'll need to add a line like srt="" to the example.

    - Joel
  • cicero19's avatar
    cicero19
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    Can you please provide some examples of streaming services that offer this? I am looking to do the same thing.