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emveepee1
Binge Watcher
5 years ago

MPEG-TS and roVideoPlayer seeking

Is it possible to create a seekable mpeg ts screen?   I have created a 2D graphics program to access the NextPVR server and I can play Live TV and recordings but I cannot seek with any examples I find and I don't see range requests going to the server.  I have tried with and without the PlayStart in the content.

content = [{
streamFormat: "ts"
stream: { url: m.base + activity["url"] }
}]

m.VideoPlayer.SetContentList(content)
m.VideoPlayer.SetPositionNotificationPeriod(1)
m.VideoPlayer.Seek(skip)
m.VideoPlayer.Play()

Thanks in advance

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  • speechles's avatar
    speechles
    Roku Guru
    5 years ago

    You need to create an m3u8 manifest which has the TS included in it. Then play the m3u8 and it will allow you to seek.

    You cannot seek a direct played TS file the Roku will not allow it.

    • emveepee1's avatar
      emveepee1
      Binge Watcher
      5 years ago

      Thanks you speechles  I thought that might be the case.

      Fortunately I have found a partial workaround for this issue by adding a standard range: bytes= header with the .Seek().  The only thing that is now not clear is if I can avoid reopening the content and using Pause() , Seek() and Resume() to forward a new header range header.  It is doing some seeking just not what I expect.  I am still hoping that this will be possible.

      I believe I may have seen you on the Emby forum and thanks again for your help.  Direct play for Emby would be useful too.

      Martin