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vjani
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10 years ago

roVideoplayer.stop() freezes roku

Hi all,

I am using roVideoplayer to play HLS videos along with roImageCanvas for displaying progress bar/other info for a video and for the most part, it works fine. However, if the video url is invalid or doesn't point to a video, I catch the error via msg.isRequestFailed() where I exit the event loop for the videoplayer and call videoplayer.Stop(), and also clear the canvas.

This just freezes the entire Roku most of the times and I don't see any logs after the videoplayer.Stop() statement, so it looks like brightscript just never returns from the stop() function. Then the only way to get back up is plug off/plug on the device.

Is this a known issue? This is on a Roku 3 with firmware 6.2, build 3467. Please advise.
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2 Replies

  • vjani's avatar
    vjani
    Visitor
    10 years ago
    To put more context, the app has a roGridScreen, whose every cell can launch the videoplayer. Note that roVidoeplayer.stop() works just fine when a video ends or I press a back button to exit the event loop. I exit the video in that case and come back to the grid screen from where I can launch a new video. Only, when there is an error playing a video, I get this issue.
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    10 years ago
    Maybe you shouldn't call .stop() on a roVidoeplayer which is not playing?
    Not sure this is one of them but there are certain places where if a program sneezes, Roku player poops itself. The work-around is not to sneeze in such places. Smiley LOL

    Just to be sure, put a debug print right before and right after the stop() and check the console - is that where it really hangs? Then let us know here, so they'll troubleshoot it eventually