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[priesett]

I am trying to stream in mp4's from previously recorded shows, and about 5-10 minutes in it starts a rebuffer loop. I'm not yet sure what they've been encoded with or at what framerate, but I can tell you that my connection is fine, and I can play them normally on my PC. In addition, my debug screen looks like this:

showHomeScreen | msg = | index = 0
Unexpected event type: 20
showHomeScreen | msg = | index = 0
Unexpected event type: 20

over and over again. Any clue as to what that might mean? I searched the documentation and didn't see a listing of error codes.

[priesett]

I have been told by the person doing the encoding that he is using Episode Pro to do so.

[RokuKevin]

Event type 20 is "StreamStarted". Since you seem to be in a rebuffer loop, every time you start a new buffer you are getting a StreamStarted event.

It is likely there is something peculiar about your encoding. Is it h264 in an mp4 wrapper? Please see the component reference guide section 4.5 for a table of support video encodings.

--Kevin

[priesett]

Well, then, that explains that 🙂

I'll forward the table to him and see if we can't figure out what's what encoding wise.

Thanks.

[jjinux]

I'm getting this exact same behavior. I can watch a few minutes of the film, but then it gets into an infinite buffer loop. I'm using HLS and Wowza. Did this ever come to any resolution?

[priesett]

"jjinux" wrote:
I'm getting this exact same behavior. I can watch a few minutes of the film, but then it gets into an infinite buffer loop. I'm using HLS and Wowza. Did this ever come to any resolution?

Sorry I took so long to respond. In our case it was the encoding that was doing it to us. Once we had the encoding where the box likes it, everything was fine.