Roku Developer Program

[mitchstein]

Ok I got it to work! it was the missing /manifest that was the whole problem...

Now a new issue.. I'm using sorenson 9 squeezeit to make all my files.. I use the long with the default for web/iis and only option I check off is on the player tab so it creates the xab file required by silverlight (so I can embed the same files into my website) it all works perfectly on my website, BUT on the roku, it stutters.. Like every 5-8 seconds it stutters.. It is doing this on Roku 1's 2's and 3's.. so it's most likely not a cpu problem, it does NOT do it using any computer with the silverlight player, so it's most definitly not the server or encoding problem.. (unless Roku requires other then defaults which seem to be fine according to the faq..

Anyway you can see whats it doing https://owner.roku.com/add/2KMVR then select the sports button, then Friday night Madness leaf and the first two videos... stutters

on the website:
http://www.tvbydemand.com/video_select_ ... sp?id=1172

it works perfectly..

Any Ideas? I don't want to spend 600$ paying for sorensen if it won't work right with roku...

[mitchstein]

I have no idea how to serve an HLS format.. Does IIS work with it or do you need a different server?

[mitchstein]

Does anyone know why files encoded with sorenson squeezeit 9 would stutter on Roku but work perfectly in silverlight? Using the default web adaptive bitrate for IIS... 480p..

[mitchstein]

Ok, I see much of my previous errors and have been learning a lot of smooth streaming.. here is my dilemma..

When a video starts to play it gets about 3 blocks of buffer and freezes on my roku 1, on my roku 3 it starts to play and freezes randomly from 30 seconds to 3 minutes in, on my roku stick it plays fine, also this happens with the Silverlight player it loads plays a few seconds and freezing on brandnew windows 8.1 laptop i7.. on my 8.1 desktop i5 (the one I use to make the videos) it also freezes but less often and farther into the stream, on my windows 7 e6500 it plays perfectly but sometimes the audio will come out of synch with the video but then return into synch later on..

Now the common demonitor is this only happens when the video is located on the iis virtual directory for the website. if I move the video to anywhere under c:\inetpub\tvbydemand\.............. it works fine but when on the physical d:\inetpub\.... it does this.. does anyone have any experience with this at all?

Basically about two months ago I ran out of space on my c-drive and added a drive, in iis I added a "virtual directory" to the website on the d-drive. I have tried every possible permissions settings even at one point giving every singled registered "user" and group full access to the folder, I ran the "test" in IIS and it passes.. I also noticed that on slow connetions (4g with bad signal or 3g signals) a raw ,mp4 file will sometimes hang while downloading but if I move the file to the physical drive it does not...

I'm kinda stuck here we are adding three weekly shows to the roku channel two are 1.5 -2.5 hours long and the other is 30-45 minutes long, next month I add celebrity boxing and hulk hogans midget wrestling weekly 2 hour shows to the channel.. I gotta get this fixed beforehad and I'm at my wits end, Microsoft won't help for any price their answer is move to azure.. I've been a Microsoft network guy since windows 2.x with lantastic, I know nothing about Linux but maybe this is the push to start learning... But until I do I really got to get this fixed first.. any help at all will be greatly appreciated cause I'm completely lost in what to do at this point.

[mitchstein]

oh incase it's relevant, I am using the default 4x3 web/Microsoft/smoothstreaming format to make the videos in soreson squeeze 9.. no changes made except to created the player and the path for it..