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greengiant83
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14 years ago

Selecting proper stream from .m3u8

I have video's being hosted on Brightcove. For any given video that provide a master m3u8 playlist pointing to multiple streams of different bandwidths. If I point the roku to this playlist directly, it just takes the first stream in the playlist and plays it. In my case this is a problem because the first stream in the list happens to be the lowest bandwidth stream and it looks terrible on a HD screen. Is there a way to have the Roku choose the right stream?

In the event that isn't possible, I have begun parsing the playlist and pulling out the individual streams and populating the episode object's StreamUrls, StreamQualities ("HD" or "SD"), and StreamBitrates. The problem is that when I give the roku (hooked up to an HD TV via HDMI) an episode with an HD stream and a SD stream, it shows the SD feed instead of the HD one. Why is this?

How can I make the Roku play the appropriate stream?
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  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    14 years ago
    Be sure to set the SwitchingStrategy content metadata attribute. An issue was introduced in the latest firmware that causes the behavior you described if the SwitchingStrategy isn't explicitly set.