Hi,
I am having issues using Roku video player to play video content hosted on Amazon S3 servers:
1). My Roku app requested an HLS playlist from an HLS server hosted on Amazon:
GET /v1/media_info/3f24f472edf2498fb8cb9cf8ecfde887/url?delivery_type=hls&max_bitrate=2500&start_bitrate=1500
The initial m3u8 playlist was retrieved successfully with required query parameters string: http: //someserver.amazonaws.com/GUID1/GUID2/profiles/hls_ts_500/playlist.m3u8?user_guid=GUID3&AWSAccessKeyId=SomeKEY&Expires=1374657914&signature=someSignature
2). The Roku video player requested the m3u8 playlist from the HLS server hosted on Amazon and received the playlist successfully:
GET /GUID1/GUID2/profiles/hls_ts_500/playlist.m3u8?user_guid=GUID3&AWSAccessKeyId=SomeKEY&Expires=1374657914&signature=someSignature
The retrieved playlist looks like:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:YES
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:11
#EXTINF:10.030967,
title0000.ts
#EXTINF:10.002411,
title0001.ts
#EXTINF:10.010300,
title0002.ts
#EXTINF:10.018100,
title0003.ts
#EXTINF:10.002656,
title0004.ts
#EXTINF:2.960000,
title0005.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
3). Then, Roku video player used the playlist and requested for TS segments for HLS playback, but this step failed. Here is the request line:
GET /GUID1/GUID2/profiles/hls_ts_500/title0000.ts?user_guid=GUID3&AWSAccessKeyId=SomeKEY&Expires=1374657914&signature=someSignature
It turns out that the Amazon S3 server rejected the segment request due to the extra query parameters appended by the Roku video player. If I hand create a request line without the query parameters like GET /GUID1/GUID2/profiles/hls_ts_500/title0000.ts, the Amazon S3 server will accept the request and the TS file will be downloaded.
So, is there a way to instruct the Roku video player not to append the query parameters appeared in the m3u8 playlist URL line to the segment URL's?
Thanks,
Charles
