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renojim
Community Streaming Expert

Re: Request Failed: -3: An unexpected problem (but not serve

Mark, I think you're off by two bytes. This is what I see:

ctts 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 57 00 00 00 01
^ ^ ^ ^
| flags entries 1st entry
version

I think everyone's also missing the part where the video can be played if I download it and play it from my local server. I can also do a roUrlTransfer and save it to tmp:/ and play it from there.

I think the really interesting thing is that this code will crash my Roku 2 XS:
Sub RunUserInterface()
screenFacade = CreateObject("roPosterScreen")
screenFacade.showMessage("Ania")
screenFacade.show()

port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
videoScreen = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")
videoScreen.setMessagePort(port)
videoScreen.SetPositionNotificationPeriod(10)

videoclip = {}
videoclip.StreamUrls = ["http://telestream.interia.pl/teledyski/HQ/q/s/Ania_Wyszkoni0_Ania_25550.ehfjw"]
videoclip.StreamFormat = "mp4"
videoclip.ContentType = "movie"
videoclip.title = "Ania test"
videoclip.StreamBitrates = [0]
videoclip.playstart = 0
videoclip.StreamQualities = ["SD"]

videoScreen.SetContent(videoclip)

log = CreateObject("roSystemLog")
log.SetMessagePort(port)
log.EnableType("http.connect")
log.EnableType("http.error")

videoScreen.show()

while true
msg = wait(0, port)
if type(msg) = "roVideoScreenEvent"
if msg.isScreenClosed() then 'ScreenClosed event'
print "Closing video screen"
exit while
else if msg.isPlaybackPosition() then
nowpos = msg.GetIndex()
print nowpos
else if msg.isRequestFailed()
print "play failed: "; msg.GetMessage()
else if msg.isFullResult()
print "isFullResult"
nowpos = -1
else if msg.isPartialResult()
print "isPartialResult, nowpos = ";nowpos
else if msg.isStreamStarted()
print "isStreamStarted"
info = msg.GetInfo()
for each i in info
print i,info[i]
end for
else
print "Unknown event: "; msg.GetType(); " msg: "; msg.GetMessage()
end if
else
print "Event: ";type(msg)
print msg.GetInfo()
end if
end while

print "Exiting app"
screenFacade.showMessage("")
sleep(25)
End Sub

-JT
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RokuJoel
Binge Watcher

Re: Request Failed: -3: An unexpected problem (but not serve

That file crashes Quicktime on Windows as well...
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RokuMarkn
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Re: Request Failed: -3: An unexpected problem (but not serve

Ok, sorry, I was confused by the real problem, which is that this server is handling range requests very strangely.

If I download the file with no range requests, I get a valid MP4 file.
If I download the file with the range request "0-" (which also requests all of the file), I get a DIFFERENT file. This is invalid server behavior and is causing the problems.

BTW, if I download the complete file to my server (which handles range requests correctly) and play it from there, it plays fine.

--Mark
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renojim
Community Streaming Expert

Re: Request Failed: -3: An unexpected problem (but not serve

I noticed that (probably should have mentioned it). If I use curl -r 0-, I get a slightly different file than if I just save it from Firefox. It's interesting that some files seem to play ok and that some don't since I see similar behavior with both links the OP provided.

-JT
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shantyman
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Re: Request Failed: -3: An unexpected problem (but not serve

thank you all for your input, and thank you RokuMarkn for pointing us in right direction 🙂
You Rock. Our Dev Team solve this server side problem and we are back online.
Roku Channel: Eulive
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