"CorporateTV" wrote:
One question though. Is there a certain amount of time that this script that you wrote will no longer work, like say the time it takes for a piece of hardware needing to be restarted versus a simple spike/dropout in bandwidth? Or will this script keep retrying until it gets connected?
Theoretically, it should fail and retry over and over, however, there may be some conditions under which it might stall and stay stalled forever, so you might want to work out a timer of some kind to close the screen with a -5 (or whatever you choose for your "fail" code) after a certain amount of time during which no position notification updates have happened or the Start of Play event fails to trigger.
I would also recommend using a range of various bitrate encodes for the video, from low to high, so that if the bandwidth fluctuates, your channel still plays.
- Joel