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mahamudm
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14 years ago

videoplayer not supporting both hls(live) and mp4(vod)

I am using the videoplayer example to have channels that are live (hls) and Video on Demand(MP4). I can have only one of them at a time but not both with this example since I had to modify the code t...
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RokuChris
Roku Employee
14 years ago
"destruk" wrote:
If you obtain the type specifier from the url filename, then it can be a bit more dynamic for you.
ie
videoclip.streamformat=right(episode.streamurl,3)
You don't even have to change any xml for that. In order to work, the streamformat needs to be set after the streamurl has been.


Except that the HLS file extension is .m3u8 so that logic would get you a streamFormat = "3u8". And if the stream URL has any parameters on it, the result becomes unpredictable. The videoplayer example has support for specifying the streamFormat in the XML starting on line 142 of showFeed.brs.