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[matrixebiz]

I assume by the lack of continued response that this is not possible?

[destruk]

Google indexed a list of user-agent strings for Apple products here:
http://www.enterpriseios.com/wiki/Compl ... nt_Strings

However, keep in mind bypassing content provider's distribution preferences isn't something Roku actively supports, so you shouldn't think everyone would be doing this or have a whole lot of experience bypassing content restrictions on the Roku platform.  If they only want actual iOS products to be consuming their content you might want to respect that.

[MasterRed]

Hi, matrixebiz, I tried with different streaming sources that require user-agent of ipad, Works without problem, Here the code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<feed>
 <!-- resultLength indicates the total number of results for this feed -->
 <resultLength>4</resultLength>
 <!-- endIndix  indicates the number of results for this *paged* section of the feed -->
 <endIndex>4</endIndex>
 <item sdImg="https://devtools.web.roku.com/videoplayer/images/JimFallon.jpg" hdImg="https://devtools.web.roku.com/videoplayer/images/JimFallon.jpg">
 <title>test</title>
 <contentId>10001</contentId>
 <contentType>Talk</contentType>
 <contentQuality>SD</contentQuality>
 <streamFormat>m3u8</streamFormat>
 <media>
 <streamQuality>SD</streamQuality>
 <streamBitrate>0</streamBitrate>
 <userAgent>http-user-agent=iPad</userAgent>
 <streamUrl>hxxp://test.com/live/index.m3u8</streamUrl>
 </media>
 <synopsis>test,test, test,test</synopsis>
 <genres>Clip</genres>
 <runtime>1260</runtime>
 </item> 
</feed>

[MasterRed]

There also streaming that require not only the user-agent, also the referer from where you took the streaming, In this second example I included the label  And below the complete code with user-agent and referer together between the xml:

<refererUrl>hxxp://live-test.com</refererUrl>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<feed>
 <!-- resultLength indicates the total number of results for this feed -->
 <resultLength>4</resultLength>
 <!-- endIndix  indicates the number of results for this *paged* section of the feed -->
 <endIndex>4</endIndex>
 <item sdImg="https://devtools.web.roku.com/videoplayer/images/JimFallon.jpg" hdImg="https://devtools.web.roku.com/videoplayer/images/JimFallon.jpg">
 <title>test</title>
 <contentId>10001</contentId>
 <contentType>Talk</contentType>
 <contentQuality>SD</contentQuality>
 <streamFormat>m3u8</streamFormat>
 <media>
 <streamQuality>SD</streamQuality>
 <streamBitrate>0</streamBitrate>
 <userAgent>http-user-agent=iPad</userAgent>
 <refererUrl>hxxp://live-test.com</refererUrl>
 <streamUrl>hxxp://test.com/live/index.m3u8</streamUrl>
 </media>
 <synopsis>test,test, test,test</synopsis>
 <genres>Clip</genres>
 <runtime>1260</runtime>
 </item> 
</feed>

[MasterRed]

And to test first the links with user-agent in VLC:

For test streaming with user-agent of iPad in VLC, save it as m3u (UTF-8),

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,TEST
#EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent=iPad
hxxp://live-stream/index.com

[matrixebiz]

Thank you for the information 🙂

if I wanted to emulate an IPhone I can just put : http-user-agent=iPhone ?

If I wanted to emulate an Android I can put : http-user-agent=Android ?

[MasterRed]

Hi, matrixebiz, it worked the user-agent iPad in your sdk Roku?, 

I will do tests with android and other devices.

[matrixebiz]

"MasterRed" wrote:
Hi, matrixebiz, it worked the user-agent iPad in your sdk Roku?, 

I will do tests with android and other devices.

Unfortunately I can't test the stream I had because it stopped working for other reasons

[matrixebiz]

"MasterRed" wrote:
Hi, matrixebiz, it worked the user-agent iPad in your sdk Roku?, 

I will do tests with android and other devices.

Hi MasterRed, were you able to test other agents? 
The <userAgent>http-user-agent=iPad</userAgent> didn't seem to work for me. Is there a list of all user agents? What user agent would I use for just emulating VLC? Thank you

Am I able to use the full user agent string like?;
http-user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B466 Safari/600.1.4

[matrixebiz]

Hello, does anyone know what "<userAgent>http-user-agent= " VLC for windows would use? I have a video stream that plays in Windows VLC but the Roku has issues with it because the stream goes through a re-direct. Thanks