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srinivasa's avatar
srinivasa
Visitor
14 years ago

isstreamstarted and isunderrun

Hi,

I have a question about the field isunderrun which is returned as part of the info within the isstreamstarted event.

I am assuming that the value of isunderrun will be true if there is any freezing of the video due to insufficient bandwidth during streaming. However, this doesn't seem to be the case.

So I am wondering as to what this field represents and under what conditions it is going to be true.

Thanks.
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  • RokuMarkn's avatar
    RokuMarkn
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    The event will be fired when there is a rebuffer. A rebuffer is when the video stops and you see the "loading" screen.

    --Mark
  • srinivasa's avatar
    srinivasa
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    Hi Mark,

    Thanks for the feedback and quick reply.

    We would like to catch such rebuffering/freezing events. However, we are not seeing the event fire in such scenarios. We are using the roVideoScreen component in the video player example.

    We have added the following code to the appVideoScreen.brs file within the while loop

    elseif msg.isStreamStarted()
    msgInfo = msg.GetInfo()
    if (msgInfo.IsUnderrun = true)
    print "Playback of " + episode.Title + "had an interruption"
    end if

    Any suggestions on what might be the issue ?

    Thanks