Video Player

I compiled the video as an .mp4
720x480 1600bits/sec
plays on my computer and website
http://www.tvbydemand.com/video_select_ ... sp?id=1168

my xml entry is

<item sdImg="http://www.tvbydemand.com/roku/loco-sd.jpg" hdImg="http://www.tvbydemand.com/roku/loco-hd.jpg">
<title>Teddy Fine Entrance Video</title>
<contentID>58</contentID>
<contentQuality>SD</contentQuality>
<synopsis><p>Teddy Fines Entrance Video, produced by "unknown"</p></synopsis>
<streamURL>http://www.tvbydemand.com/isx/1168.isx</streamURL>
</item>

Point your streamUrl to the mp4 file as isx is not an extension supported.

Wait a minute. in an earlier message I was told to setup IIS smooth streaming, IIS smooth streaming only uses ISX files which it translates to asx files to launch players.. I just spent 3 days learning a new server and now your telling me that IIS smooth streaming is not compatible.. Is there an official document or tech support area where you can get straight forward direct correct answers? Because I'm not investing any more money and server resources to roku if not. I just wasted three 12 hour days at 150/hour labor charges.

IIS Smooth Streaming is supported, but you have to tell the player that it's a smooth stream. I'm not clear on how ISX playlists relate to Smooth Streaming, but you'll need an ISM Manifest to work with the Roku, and you'll need to set the StreamFormat to "ism". Here's a blog post with a ton of sample streams you can use to test your code, and see what format is expected: http://zoomicon.wordpress.com/2012/09/2 ... ideo-urls/

Now I'm completly lost. if it works and there is a working example I can relate to that. but I have no idea what a ism stream format is, there doesn't appear to be anything about ism format on technet.. is there a sample application? some kind of server guide or anything on here?

Basically right now all I want to do is get one file to stream to roku. then I can reverse engineer it and figure out how it all works.

Is it that I have to create a smooth streaming playlist or a smooth streaming presentation?

"mitchstein" wrote:
Is it that I have to create a smooth streaming playlist or a smooth streaming presentation?

Looks like you might need a presentation. This blog post walks you through creating a stream: http://www.iis.net/learn/media/on-deman ... -streaming

I'm almost thinking the problem is my roku player..
I tried this..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<feed>
<!-- resultLength indicates the total number of results for this feed -->
<resultLength>1</resultLength>
<!-- endIndix indicates the number of results for this *paged* section of the feed -->
<endIndex>61</endIndex>

<item sdImg="http://www.tvbydemand.com/roku/loco-sd.jpg" hdImg="http://www.tvbydemand.com/roku/loco-hd.jpg">
<title>2 Director of the Light house Rec Center John Discusses the programs available at the light house and how loco wrestling will be valued.</title>
<contentID>58</contentID>
<contentQuality>SD</contentQuality>
<synopsis>Director of the Light house Rec Center John Discusses the programs available at the light house and how loco wrestling will be valued.</synopsis>
<streamURL>http://www.tvbydemand.com/1.wmv</streamURL>
</item>

</feed>

the player just sits there saying retrieving, the degugger shows "button pressed"

I tried the exact same thing with a .mp4 a .m4v a .avi and a .mpg.. exact same results yet if I put the path into my browser it opens windows media player and plays the files.. the 1.wmv even plays on my android phone..

WMV is only supported on the legacy (firmware 3.x) devices. It's not supported on the current generation. AVI and MPG aren't supported on any generation. You need to stick with MP4 encoded as described in the encoding guide (http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Encoding+Guide).

encoder 4 has been discontinued and the free version doesnt encode h.264... sux to be me I guess.. Anyway I downloaded and installed ffmpeg, I created the preset file and saved it in the bin directory (because I can't figure where else it might need to go.. I ran the .bat file and used the commandline from the documentation and got back "

> ffmpeg -i 1.wmv -acodec libfaac -ab 128 -vcodec libx264 \ -vpre roku -crf 15 -
threads 0 ~/1.mp4
ffmpeg version N-62058-gfd2bcfc Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on Apr 2 2014 22:02:20 with gcc 4.8.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
le-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetyp
e --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --ena
ble-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-l
ibopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libsp
eex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aa
cenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavp
ack --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable
-zlib
libavutil 52. 71.100 / 52. 71.100
libavcodec 55. 56.107 / 55. 56.107
libavformat 55. 36.101 / 55. 36.101
libavdevice 55. 11.100 / 55. 11.100
libavfilter 4. 3.100 / 4. 3.100
libswscale 2. 6.100 / 2. 6.100
libswresample 0. 18.100 / 0. 18.100
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
[wmv3 @ 0460bb00] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
Input #0, asf, from '1.wmv':
Metadata:
SfOriginalFPS : 300000
WMFSDKVersion : 11.0.5721.5145
WMFSDKNeeded : 0.0.0.0000
IsVBR : 0
DeviceConformanceTemplate: MP@LL
Duration: 00:00:18.16, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 287 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 22050 Hz, stereo, fltp
, 32 kb/s
Stream #0:1(eng): Video: wmv3 (Main) (WMV3 / 0x33564D57), yuv420p, 320x240,
223 kb/s, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
[NULL @ 0460c200] Unable to find a suitable output format for 'ΓÇôab'
ΓÇôab: Invalid argument

>

I am so in over my head now... I have no idea what all this means.. I haven't used a DOS prompt since 1989 when I started running windows NT 4.0 servers.. Anyway the most confusing part is 'ΓÇôab' huh? whats that mean? is there any gui based application that will run on a 32 bit version of server 2008 enterprise or a 64 bit windows 7 enterprise OS that is easier and might have roku step by steps? Anyway I know I am so close to getting this to work, yet so far away.. aaarrghh

Lol, I miss the good old windows 2003 days with windows media server, we had one codec, one format and everyone saw it.. lol