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Streaming Started but not showing anything

Hi

I have customized the Simple Player and added the URLS and Streamformats as shown below

urls = ["http://revsam.org/revsamtv.wvx"]
qualities = ["SD"]
streamformat = "ts"

In the Telnet I am able to see a Message as msg 20 Strem Started, but in the TV screen it is showing retrieving and the progress bar shows end but it never showing the video. I have also tried VLC to try to find the Stream format but no use.

Please help.

Give me some valida URLS to check whether I am doing the right thing OR not. Is there any way to use another stream format in Roku.

Thanks
Ambrose
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RokuChris
Roku Employee
Roku Employee

Re: Streaming Started but not showing anything

Valid values for streamFormat are called out in section 3.3 of the Component Reference.

A quick HEAD request on your URL tells me it's not compatible. The URL points to an XML file that the Roku doesn't know what to do with.

curl --head "http://revsam.org/revsamtv.wvx"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:27:10 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:36:20 GMT
ETag: "5e47fb-66-6d2b3d00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 102
Connection: close
Content-Type: video/x-ms-wvx


And looking at the actual XML shows it's a Windows Media redirector file that points to an MMS stream which is not compatible.

curl "http://revsam.org/revsamtv.wvx"
<ASX version="3.0">
<Entry>
<ref HREF="mms://revsam3.chennaistream.net/revsamtv"/>
</Entry>
</ASX>
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Re: Streaming Started but not showing anything

Thanks a lot.

I have some more web TV URLs which I want to try. Can you please explain me how you found out the XML file and actual streaming URLs and Stream format. I just took the view Source from Browser and tried with that.

I want to try another URL http://rainbowtv.tv/media1.wvx This channel was coming in TamilIPTV in roku few days back they have removed this channel. But I want to watch it. How can I check whether their stream format is supported by Roku OR not.

When I checked with VLC Player, both the formats are almost same.


Thanks
Ambrose
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