HLS Stream Issue in Playback

Archived
1

I am using Videoplayer and noticed something odd lately.
My link plays in VLC Live with http://180.250.29.21/jhos/metrotv/Playlist.m3u8
but on the Roku it is no longer live, but starts 4 1/2 hours before becoming live. Is there a way to correct this somewhere?
ice time stamp
Try it out and you can see what I mean. Using a Roku2 XS and have not had this issue before. Try VLC and notice the time and play same link on the Roku and notice the time.

2

Have you marked the stream as “Live”? If not, add that to the metadata. If that still doesn’t fix it, you could add a PlayStart value that’s absurdly high to force the player to seek to the end of the playlist.

3

How to make the PlayStart Value to the High Value to force it to beginning?

4

Add “PlayStart: 999999999” to the metadata for the stream object you pass to the video screen.

5

I’ll start looking into that. Thanks for the reply.

6

In my appDetailScreen.brs is where my PlayStart is: How would I change it here to really make it work? I also have VOD in my xml files versus live links.

ElseIf msg.isButtonPressed()
					Print"ButtonPressed"
					If msg.GetIndex()=1
						If showlist[showindex].contentformat<>"audio"
							PlayStart=RegRead(showList[showIndex].ContentId)
							If PlayStart<>invalid
								showList[showIndex].PlayStart=PlayStart.ToInt()
							End If
							'Add 02-27-13
							If showList[showIndex].StreamUrls[0]="INVALID"
							ShowErrorDialog("No Video Available Yet")
							Else
							'end 02-27-13
							showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
						End If
						End If
					End If
7

To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:


time=createobject("rodatetime")
now=time.asseconds() 
episode.playstart=now+1800 
videoobject.setcontent(episode)
videoobject.play()
  • Joel
8

“RokuJoel” wrote:
To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:


time=createobject("rodatetime")
now=time.asseconds() 
episode.playstart=now+1800 
videoobject.setcontent(episode)
videoobject.play()
  • Joel
    Interesting. So, does that mean live streams use the date for PlayStart instead of the duration that VOD streams use?
9

“RokuJoel” wrote:
To force the player to run closer to realtime, I use the following code to set Playstart a bit into the future:


time=createobject("rodatetime")
now=time.asseconds() 
episode.playstart=now+1800 
videoobject.setcontent(episode)
videoobject.play()
  • Joel

Will this allow the video on demand to still start from the beginning?

Can you show where I would post this code within the appDetailScreen.brs ?

I’m pretty new to this and am still learning my way around bright script.

Thank you for any help! I’ve been reading lot’s of RokuJoel posts these past few days! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: