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buenafe
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‎11-09-2011 06:02 PM

Why some m3u8 lists don't play in Roku

I'm stumped on this one.

There exists a EWTN channel (live stream of catholic site).
I assume it is using this link from http://www.ewtn.mobi

http://ec2-174-129-158-38.compute-1.ama ... ylist.m3u8

It plays on HP tablet and iPhone fine, but I can't make it play on the Roku (using sample videoplayer code). I'm certain I don't have bug in the code, I suspect it is the approach or maybe I need to play with HTML headers.

I'm just using this link as an example. This applies to some other m3u8 links too.
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RokuChris
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‎11-09-2011 06:15 PM

Re: Why some m3u8 lists don't play in Roku

That's a very low quality stream. HLS variants below 250kbps are ignored by default. To play streams below that threshold, you need to set the minBandwidth attribute of your content-meta-data. This is discussed in section 3.3 of the Component Reference.
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