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jhoard
Reel Rookie
3 years ago

How to prevent channel buffer between video load

I've recently built a Roku channel to work as a showroom display to stream videos of products continuously. The problem I'm facing is buffering between videos. Is there any remedy to this solution? C...
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sjb64
Roku Guru
3 years ago

No, you can't do that, A Roku has only 1 stream processing system, so it can't be dealing with 2 simultaneous streams.

You could load all the HLS M3U8's, create a single M3U8 for all of them as a single stream using the various TS files, save it online (or in tmp: if you set up an internal socket server) and stream from it.  You might have to use the M3U8 discontinuity flags of the TS's come from various sources.

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    jhoard
    Reel Rookie
    3 years ago

    Ok, thank you. I will attempt to implement your solution and see how it goes. 

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      sjb64
      Roku Guru
      3 years ago

      It can be a bit tricky getting the discontinuity right, and loading it from an online source will be a lot easier than rolling a socket server on the box to load from tmp:.