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[renojim]

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

[RokuJoel]

That file crashes Quicktime on Windows as well...

[RokuMarkn]

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

[renojim]

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

[shantyman]

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.