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httpslash
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12 years ago

How to stream http stream?

Hey guys, I've been trying to stream this for a while but although it plays, it palys for a minute then repeat what has already been played. I have had success using a certificate chain file and as ...
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EnTerr
Roku Guru
11 years ago
"httpslash" wrote:
Thanks so much for the help, I would be willing to try the tmp thing however it seems far too difficult for me to do. How would you go about doing it? Does it take a lot of steps? Thanks

Dang it, i got myself too involved here. Try something like this and then ask it to play the local m3u3?
    xfer = createObject("roURLTransfer")
    xfer.setURL("http://stream0.latvdefrance.com/live/tf1.m3u8")
    m3u = xfer.getToString()
    tmp_m3u = ""
    for each line in m3u.tokenize(chr(10)):
        if left(line, 1) <> "#":
            line = "http://stream0.latvdefrance.com/live/" + line
        else if left(lines, 18) = "#EXT-X-ALLOWCACHE:":
            line = "#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO"
        end if    
        tmp_m3u = tmp_m3u + chr(10) + line
    end for
    WriteAsciiFile("tmp:/tf1.m3u8", tmp_m3u)