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Anyone having any success playing hls streams on Roku 2? I noticed that a few of my channels weren't working, so I tried loading up the simplevideoplayer from the 3.0 SDK and used Apples bit bop hls stream and I get the same error:
play failed: An unexpected problem (but not server timeout or HTTP error) has been detected.
Is there something that needs to be changed in Brightscript in order to play hls streams on the roku2?
I'd be interested in an answer to this question also. I'm the author of the Plex channel that uses HLS to stream local media to the Roku. The channel works fine under the old hardware with both 2.x and 3.0 firmware but a number of users are reporting that the Roku2 does not work. It appears to reject the stream immediately on reading the m3u8 file and never requests a ts segment file.
A couple of users have also mentioned that other channels they use also do not work on the Roku2 but didn't specify which.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received here, thanks, Jonny
HLS isn't broken, though there may be a few outstanding corner cases. We are furiously working to address them. If you want to send me sample links, we can take a look.
The Plex app is designed to stream local media so sample links are inherently local also. Let me talk to the core Plex devs and see if they have a remotely accessible server you can access.
thanks for the help, Jonny
"RokuPatrick" wrote: HLS isn't broken, though there may be a few outstanding corner cases. We are furiously working to address them. If you want to send me sample links, we can take a look.
We're seeing issues as well. Stream will load, play a segment and rebuffer.
Edit: we don't know if this is specific to "Roku 2" or if its specific to the firmware. We've submitted sample streams to Kevin that were generated by a major commercial encoder vendor that clearly work with 2.9 but do not work with "3.0". We've received no feedback other than "it's a regression bug".
To address the Roku2 vs firmware 3.0 thing a little. In my case v3.0 works fine, in fact playing streams that 2.9 would fail on over wifi (but not wired).
