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bandal
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HLS Stream Issue in Playback

I am using Videoplayer and noticed something odd lately.
My link plays in VLC Live with <streamUrl>http://180.250.29.21/jhos/metrotv/Playlist.m3u8</streamUrl>
but on the Roku it is no longer live, but starts 4 1/2 hours before becoming live. Is there a way to correct this somewhere?
ice time stamp
Try it out and you can see what I mean. Using a Roku2 XS and have not had this issue before. Try VLC and notice the time and play same link on the Roku and notice the time.
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

Have you marked the stream as "Live"? If not, add that to the metadata. If that still doesn't fix it, you could add a PlayStart value that's absurdly high to force the player to seek to the end of the playlist.
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bandal
Visitor

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

How to make the PlayStart Value to the High Value to force it to beginning?
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

Add "PlayStart: 999999999" to the metadata for the stream object you pass to the video screen.
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bandal
Visitor

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

I'll start looking into that. Thanks for the reply.
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bandal
Visitor

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

In my appDetailScreen.brs is where my PlayStart is: How would I change it here to really make it work? I also have VOD in my xml files versus live links.

ElseIf msg.isButtonPressed()
Print"ButtonPressed"
If msg.GetIndex()=1
If showlist[showindex].contentformat<>"audio"
PlayStart=RegRead(showList[showIndex].ContentId)
If PlayStart<>invalid
showList[showIndex].PlayStart=PlayStart.ToInt()
End If
'Add 02-27-13
If showList[showIndex].StreamUrls[0]="INVALID"
ShowErrorDialog("No Video Available Yet")
Else
'end 02-27-13
showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
End If
End If
End If
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RokuJoel
Binge Watcher

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:

time=createobject("rodatetime")
now=time.asseconds()
episode.playstart=now+1800
videoobject.setcontent(episode)
videoobject.play()


- Joel
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

"RokuJoel" wrote:
To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:

time=createobject("rodatetime")
now=time.asseconds()
episode.playstart=now+1800
videoobject.setcontent(episode)
videoobject.play()


- Joel

Interesting. So, does that mean live streams use the date for PlayStart instead of the duration that VOD streams use?
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drobinson
Visitor

Re: HLS Stream Issue in Playback

"RokuJoel" wrote:
To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:

time=createobject("rodatetime")
now=time.asseconds()
episode.playstart=now+1800
videoobject.setcontent(episode)
videoobject.play()


- Joel


Will this allow the video on demand to still start from the beginning?

Can you show where I would post this code within the appDetailScreen.brs ?

I'm pretty new to this and am still learning my way around bright script.

Thank you for any help! I've been reading lot's of RokuJoel posts these past few days! 😄 😄
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