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clonemaster
Visitor
15 years ago

[RESOLVED]Help me understand why my video isn't playing

I just created a private channel for my viewing pleasure, but when I try to play the first video it hangs at "Receiving..." I've tried hosting the video files on both my localhost and web server (HostNine) but to no avail.


<!-- categories -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<categories>
  <category title="The Twilight Zone (1959)" description="Rod Serling's seminal anthology series" sd_img="http://localhost/roku/artwork/The.Twilight.Zone.(1959).SD.jpg" hd_img="http://localhost/roku/artwork/The.Twilight.Zone.(1959).HD.jpg">
    <categoryLeaf title="Season 1" description="This title needs a description" feed="season1.xml" />
  </category>
</categories>


<!-- season1.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<feed>
  <resultLength>1</resultLength>
  <endIndex>1</endIndex>
  <item sdImg="http://localhost/roku/artwork/" hdImg="http://localhost/roku/artwork/">
    <title>Where Is Everybody? (Season 1, Episode 1)</title>
    <contentId>10001</contentId>
    <contentType>Talk</contentType>
    <contentQuality>SD</contentQuality>
    <media>
      <streamFormat>mp4</streamFormat>
      <streamQuality>SD</streamQuality>
      <streamBitrate>1500</streamBitrate>
      <streamUrl>http://localhost/roku/video/The.Twilight.Zone.(1959)/The.Twilight.Zone.(1959).S01E01.mp4</streamUrl>
    </media>
    <synopsis>A man finds himself in a town devoid of people and with no memory of who he is.</synopsis>
    <genres>Clip</genres>
    <runtime>2102</runtime>
  </item>
</feed>


Please help! My wife is getting angry that I've spent so much time on this.

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9 Replies

  • destruk's avatar
    destruk
    Streaming Star
    15 years ago
    Does any message show up in the diagnostic screen when you try to start playback?
    telnet ipaddressofroku 8085
  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    15 years ago
    "destruk" wrote:
    Does any message show up in the diagnostic screen when you try to start playback?
    telnet ipaddressofroku 8080

    Psst.. 8085 😉
  • destruk's avatar
    destruk
    Streaming Star
    15 years ago
    ergh...corrected...been a long day of editing xml... 🙂
  • clonemaster's avatar
    clonemaster
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    Here is what I have...


    joshua@ubuntu:~$ telnet 192.168.2.4 8085
    Trying 192.168.2.4...
    Connected to 192.168.2.4.
    Escape character is '^]'.
     0
    ------ Running ------
    created feed connection for http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    url: http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    Took: 85ms
    Parse Took: 2ms
    begin category node parsing
    number of categories: 1
    ParseCategoryNode: category
    category: The Twilight Zone (1959) | Rod Serling's seminal anthology series
    categoryLeaf: Season 1 [This title needs a description]
    ParseCategoryNode: categoryLeaf
    added new child node
    Traversing: 9ms
    showHomeScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    list item selected | index =  0
    created feed connection for season1.xml
    url: season1.xml
    Request Time: 231
    Can't parse feed
    showPosterScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    ------ Running ------
    created feed connection for http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    url: http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    Took: 154ms
    Parse Took: 2ms
    begin category node parsing
    number of categories: 1
    ParseCategoryNode: category
    category: The Twilight Zone (1959) | Rod Serling's seminal anthology series
    categoryLeaf: Season 1 [This title needs a description]
    ParseCategoryNode: categoryLeaf
    added new child node
    Traversing: 9ms
    ------ Running ------
    created feed connection for http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    url: http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    Took: 63ms
    Parse Took: 1ms
    begin category node parsing
    number of categories: 1
    ParseCategoryNode: category
    category: The Twilight Zone (1959) | Rod Serling's seminal anthology series
    categoryLeaf: Season 1 [This title needs a description]
    ParseCategoryNode: categoryLeaf
    added new child node
    Traversing: 16ms
    showHomeScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    list item selected | index =  0
    created feed connection for season1.xml
    url: season1.xml
    Request Time: 240
    Can't parse feed
    showPosterScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    ------ Running ------
    created feed connection for http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    url: http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    Took: 127ms
    Parse Took: 3ms
    begin category node parsing
    number of categories: 1
    ParseCategoryNode: category
    category: The Twilight Zone (1959) | Rod Serling's seminal anthology series
    categoryLeaf: Season 1 [This title needs a description]
    ParseCategoryNode: categoryLeaf
    added new child node
    Traversing: 8ms
    showHomeScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    list item selected | index =  0
    created feed connection for season1.xml
    url: season1.xml
    Request Time: 241
    Can't parse feed
    showPosterScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    ------ Running ------
    created feed connection for http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    url: http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    Took: 161ms
    Parse Took: 2ms
    begin category node parsing
    number of categories: 1
    ParseCategoryNode: category
    category: The Twilight Zone (1959) | Rod Serling's seminal anthology series
    categoryLeaf: Season 1 [This title needs a description]
    ParseCategoryNode: categoryLeaf
    added new child node
    Traversing: 9ms
    showHomeScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    list item selected | index =  0
    created feed connection for season1.xml
    url: season1.xml
    Request Time: 321
    Can't parse feed
    showPosterScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    showHomeScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    list item selected | index =  0
    created feed connection for season1.xml
    url: season1.xml
    Request Time: 277
    Can't parse feed
    showPosterScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    ------ Running ------
    created feed connection for http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    url: http://joshua.mallory.com/roku/xml/categories.xml
    Took: 243ms
    Parse Took: 2ms
    begin category node parsing
    number of categories: 1
    ParseCategoryNode: category
    category: The Twilight Zone (1959) | Rod Serling's seminal anthology series
    categoryLeaf: Season 1 [This title needs a description]
    ParseCategoryNode: categoryLeaf
    added new child node
    Traversing: 10ms
    showHomeScreen | msg =  | index =  0
    list item selected | index =  0
    created feed connection for season1.xml
    url: season1.xml
    Request Time: 263
    Can't parse feed
    showPosterScreen | msg =  | index =  0
  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    15 years ago
    The "Can't parse feed" is your problem. Maybe you should post the XML.

    -JT
  • clonemaster's avatar
    clonemaster
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    "renojim" wrote:
    The "Can't parse feed" is your problem. Maybe you should post the XML.

    -JT


    Yeah I saw that too but can't find any problems with the XML. I included my code in the first post.
  • RokuChris's avatar
    RokuChris
    Roku Employee
    15 years ago
    "clonemaster" wrote:
    created feed connection for season1.xml


    I'm pretty sure you need to give it a complete URL as the value of the feed attribute.
  • clonemaster's avatar
    clonemaster
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    "RokuChris" wrote:

    I'm pretty sure you need to give it a complete URL as the value of the feed attribute.


    You're right, FIXED!