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[axiomy]

I am doing some testing on the mrss_grid_template.1.0.1 and I would like to be able to play either MP4 or HLS Video. So far I have only gotten it to do one or the other by changing the code in the NWM_MRSS.brs

	xml = CreateObject("roXMLElement")
	if xml.Parse(raw)
		for each item in xml.channel.item
			newItem = {
			  guid:             ValidStr(item.guid.GetText())
				streams:			    []
				streamFormat:	    "mp4"
				minBandwidth:     250
				'maxBandwidth:     2200
				actors:				    []
				categories:		    []
				contentType:	    "episode"
				bookmarkPosition: 0
			}

			' title
			tmp = item.GetNamedElements("media:title")
			if tmp.Count() > 0
				newItem.title = util.HTMLEntityDecode(ValidStr(tmp[0].GetText()))
				newItem.shortDescriptionLine1 = util.HTMLEntityDecode(ValidStr(tmp[0].GetText()))
			else
				newItem.title = util.HTMLEntityDecode(ValidStr(item.title.GetText()))
				newItem.shortDescriptionLine1 = util.HTMLEntityDecode(ValidStr(item.title.GetText()))
			end if

if I change "streamFormat: "mp4" to streamFormat: "hls" then it does play hls fine but it disables MP4 playback. All attempts have failed to get it to play both, How would I allow the HLS playback without disabling the MP4 playback?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[RokuChris]

That's not directly supported by the template, but fairly easy to do by setting streamFormat on a per-item basis. You'd need to modify the parsing logic to look for the type attribute on the media:content element for each piece of content. Its value will be the MIME type of that content, so set streamFormat appropriately for each item based on that value.

http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss#media-content

[axiomy]

That was one of the first things I tried in the rss feed. I will review your link and information tomorrow and try again. I will report my findings Anyone else have advice please help. Thank you for responding hopefully we can get a dialog going and solve this. 🙂

[axiomy]

You are correct. I still haven't solved it but I see that I'm not parsing logic to look for the "type" attribute on the media:content element for each piece of content. So when I had tried to set the content type in the rss it was unaware to look for type. I am going to attempt to correct that now. What I don't understand is it seems to be parsing the "media:content" and I thought the attributes where already part of it. When I I put in the type="video/mp4" or type="video/hls" it still only plays one or the other depending on what the guid:streamFormat is set two. I am assuming I will need to add code to the "media:content" section to correctly parse the type="video/hls" tag?

	
			' media:content can be a child of <item> or of <media:group>
			contentItems = item.GetNamedElements("media:content")
			if contentItems.Count() = 0
				tmp = item.GetNamedElements("media:group")
				if tmp.Count() > 0
					contentItems = tmp.GetNamedElements("media:content")
				end if
			end if
			
			' length
			tmp = item.GetNamedElements("blip:runtime")
			if tmp.Count() > 0
				length = StrToI(ValidStr(tmp[0].GetText()))
				if length > 0
					newItem.length = length
				end if
			end if
			
			if contentItems.Count() > 0
				for each content in contentItems
					if ValidStr(content@url) <> ""
						newStream = {
							url:			  ValidStr(content@url)
							bitrate:	  StrToI(ValidStr(content@bitrate))
							contentID:  contentIDPrefix + "|" + newItem.title
						}
						
						' use the content's height attribute to determine HD-ness
						if StrToI(ValidStr(content@height)) > 720
							newStream.quality = true
							newItem.HDBranded = true
							newItem.isHD = true
							newItem.fullHD = true
						else if StrToI(ValidStr(content@height)) > 480
							newStream.quality = true
							newItem.HDBranded = true
							newItem.isHD = true
						end if

						newItem.streams.push(newStream)
					end if
				next
				
				length = StrToI(ValidStr(contentItems[0]@duration))
				if newItem.length = invalid and length > 0
					newItem.length = length
				end if

[RokuChris]

"axiomy" wrote:
I am assuming I will need to add code to the "media:content" section to correctly parse the type="video/hls" tag?

Correct. Also note that video/hls is not a valid MIME type. HLS streams are usually indicated by application/x-mpegURL or application/vnd.apple.mpegURL

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos ... reaming-13
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios ... 32-CH2-SW3

[axiomy]

Thanks Chris I will take a look now and see what I can do. I will report back the progress.

[axiomy]

Is it possible to put in in the enclosure? as something like this

   if item.enclosure@type = "application/x-mpegURL" or LCase (Right (url, 4)) = ".M3U8"
               newItem.streamFormat = "hls" 
          else if item.enclosure@type = "video/MP2T" or LCase (Right (url, 4)) = ".ts"
               newItem.streamFormat = "hls"

[RokuChris]

That would work if the feeds you're parsing are RSS with enclosures as opposed to MRSS.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.ht ... OfLtitemgt

I doubt that you'd ever come across a link to a TS file in a feed.

[axiomy]

ok so I added this to the end of the NWM_MRSS.brs

  ' we didn't find any media:content tags, try the enclosure tag
            url = ValidStr(item.enclosure@url)
               if item.enclosure@type = "application/x-mpegURL" or LCase (Right (url, 4)) = ".m3u8"
               newItem.streamFormat = "hls"
    
           else if item.enclosure@type = "audio/mpeg" or LCase (Right (url, 4)) = ".mp3"
               newItem.streamFormat = "mp3"
                              
              newItem.url = url
            else
               newStream = {
                  url:   ValidStr(item.enclosure@url)
               }

               newItem.streams.Push(newStream)
            endif   

            'PrintAA(newItem)
            result.Push(newItem)
         end if
      next
   end if

   return result
end function

right above the code I added so it would play mp3 audio and shoutcast. The Audio plays fine but the hls will not load.


At the beginning of the .brs the default is set to MP4

 guid:             ValidStr(item.guid.GetText())
				streams:			    []
				streamFormat:	    "mp4" 
				minBandwidth:     880
				'maxBandwidth:     2200
				actors:				    []
				categories:		    []
				contentType:	    "episode"
				bookmarkPosition: 0

The test feed is itunes rss and failed to play with with an enclosure url "" type="video/hls"/> and locked up on playblack when type="application/x-mpegURL" If I change the guid to hls it plays no problem but then disables all mp4 playback. What am I doing wrong here?