Roku Developer Program

[RokuMarkn]

Hold on -- you're encoding an MP4 file, right? So the file must be completely encoded before the Roku starts playing it. MP4 is not a streaming format. I'm not sure what "server" you're talking about, but Roku reads the files from a standard HTTP server at its own speed; it's not possible for the server to send the data too fast. What "buffer flushes" are you referring to?

--Mark

[mikedehaan]

"RokuMarkn" wrote:
Hold on -- you're encoding an MP4 file, right? So the file must be completely encoded before the Roku starts playing it. MP4 is not a streaming format.

Correct. The files I'm attempting to play are completely encoded ahead of time (last week).

"RokuMarkn" wrote:
I'm not sure what "server" you're talking about, but Roku reads the files from a standard HTTP server at its own speed; it's not possible for the server to send the data too fast. What "buffer flushes" are you referring to?

You are exactly right. I am writing a custom server to host my videos and suspect that I have something wrong either in the HTTP Headers (mime type?) or in the streaming. Once I moved one of the longer videos to an Apache HTTPD instance, the file worked just fine.

Thanks for your time. This is obviously not a Roku issue so I will go on my own for now.

[renojim]

Make sure your server supports range requests.

-JT

[mikedehaan]

"renojim" wrote:
Make sure your server supports range requests.

-JT

Brilliant! That was exactly the issue.

Thanks for the help. 😄

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