# Roku channel stream has 1 too many clicks **URL:** \ **Category:** Archived\ **Tags:** roku-developer-program\ **Created:** [January 5, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692 "2016-01-05T20:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/21 "2016-03-14T01:20:00Z")
also, do the channel icons have to be in png? jpg is smaller sizes. plus do we need all those brs files? my channel is too big in size for Roku 1’s so I would like to delete the extra ones or do they make it compatible with the older roku’s? ---
**Author:** ![Komag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@Komag](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Komag)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/22 "2016-03-14T10:23:50Z")
You’re still talking about 2mb size limit? It doesn’t apply any more, at all. Old Rokus are no longer supported by the company - new channels aren’t available for them at all, regardless of size, so you can completely ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/23 "2016-03-14T11:43:30Z")
yeah, the size is 2.5 mb now. Not sure why zipping it makes it bigger because the size of the raw files are only 1.2 mb ---
**Author:** ![Komag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@Komag](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Komag)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/24 "2016-03-14T15:16:59Z")
I’ve never seen that happen, I’m skeptical ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/25 "2016-03-14T20:19:54Z")
is it easy to have the channel look at a pastbin file/playlist instead of having the direct streams (m3u8) in the code so that if I need to change a stream link right away I don’t have to package an update and wait for Roku to publish the update to the channel, I can just change the link in my pastbin file on the fly and be done with it? ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/26 "2016-03-14T20:32:07Z")
> “matrixebiz” wrote: > is it easy? > Obviously not, or you would have done it already. If you can be more specific about why it’s not working, it will be easier to help you. ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/27 "2016-03-14T20:55:19Z")
Unfortunately I have no idea on what to change in the code to have the channel pull my channels from a pastbin link instead of the current XML file. So what I mean is, is it easy for you 🙂 to guide me how to do it and what to change or is it hard and I will need to re-write the whole channel instead of just changing a few pointers in the current Main.brs file. So for me, it is currently Hard since I would not know where to start but if is just a matter of showing me where to change a few pointers, then it will be easy for me from then on 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/28 "2016-03-14T21:41:32Z")
Change “pkg:/blahblahblah” to “[http://pastebin/raw/blahblahblah](http://pastebin/raw/blahblahblah)” or whatever the url is for your xml files, images, etc. ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/29 "2016-03-14T21:59:25Z")
In my Main.brs I have; ’ Parse the top-level Xml file, passing the resultant hierarchical content list to the UI display function uiDisplay (parseXmlDocument (“pkg:/xml/links.xml”)) So when I change it to; ’ Parse the top-level Xml file, passing the resultant hierarchical content list to the UI display function uiDisplay (parseXmlDocument (“[http://pastebin.com/raw/Wg5r2766](http://pastebin.com/raw/Wg5r2766)”)) Says unable to to parse xml because the pastbin site/file is not an xml it is a playlist of m3u8 links ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/30 "2016-03-14T22:02:14Z")
Does it work when you use: uiDisplay (parseXmlDocument (“pkg:/xml/links.xml”)) ? ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/31 "2016-03-14T22:06:16Z")
Oh, crap, I see what you are saying now. Post a copy of the xml file to pastbin because currently the pastbin raw file is a playlist of m3u links not an xml. I’ll try that now. ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/32 "2016-03-14T22:08:07Z")
… and change any references in the xml file and other files it includes to use either http:// or pkg:// depending on where your resources are located. ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/33 "2016-03-14T22:18:24Z")
Ok, now that was easy 🙂 I didn’t need to change anything in the xml file either because the resources are the same so when it parses the xml where ever it is, the roku still knows to grab the image from my images location item : sdImg=“pkg:/images/C214x144Sd.png” So I didn’t actually need to change anything else except the link to where my xml is in Main.brs Thx again ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/34 "2016-06-24T18:56:41Z")
> “belltown” wrote: > > If instead you were to use the NewVideoPlayer ([http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=91672&p=516080](http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=91672&p=516080)), which you can get from [https://github.com/belltown/Roku-NewVideoPlayer](https://github.com/belltown/Roku-NewVideoPlayer) > **Hi belltown, is there a reason why you removed the “showFeed.brs” file from your SDK?** **I read that if I want to help users who have lower internet speeds to read hls streams properly to help loading issues, I should add the below code to my XML file to adjust the quality of the stream on the fly?;** ```auto full-adaptation ``` **but for this to work properly, I also need to add the below to the showFeed.brs file;** ```auto if item.StreamFormat = "" then 'set default streamFormat to mp4 if doesn't exist in xml item.StreamFormat = "HLS" endif If item.StreamFormat="hls" then item.SwitchingStrategy="full-adaptation" End If ``` **but this file doesn’t exist anymore in your updated SDK package. Is this not needed anymore?** ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/35 "2016-06-24T20:39:54Z")
According to the documentation, the default HLS SwitchingStrategy is “full-adaptation”, so it shouldn’t be necessary to specify this in the content meta-data. However, I’ve updated [NewVideoPlayer](https://github.com/belltown/Roku-NewVideoPlayer) on GitHub to allow you to specify full-adaptation in a Roku Feed (or any other allowable value for switching strategy), if the streamFormat is “hls” (see [categories.xml](https://github.com/belltown/Roku-NewVideoPlayer/blob/master/xml/categories.xml)) The file that handles the change is [RokuFeed.brs](https://github.com/belltown/Roku-NewVideoPlayer/blob/master/source/RokuFeed.brs) ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/36 "2016-06-24T21:11:29Z")
Ok, thanks I’ll check it out. On the thread I was reading (Can’t find it now and I think it was from last year) the ‘default HLS SwitchingStrategy’ code was broken or something so hence the reason why users had to manually add the code I mentioned above to force it but maybe that is fixed already ?? Will this help with the users Roku’s who have slower internet speeds constantly pause and do the Loading … thing every few minutes? or is there something else I can code in for this detection? a drop in quality is less annoying than that Loading screen all the time. (I have no control over the stream source/feed so I can’t lower the HD video quality at the source) ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/37 "2016-06-24T21:30:26Z")
If the stream is encoded at a bitrate that’s higher than the users’ internet connections can handle, then there’s nothing you can do about that. ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/38 "2016-06-26T00:32:46Z")
Hi belltown, as the channel reads my feed XML file and if I wanted to add something to the end of the streamUrl, like an authentication code for streams that contain ‘HD’ in the title, EG; ```auto Stream HD hls HD 0 http://stream.m3u8?id= True ``` Where and which file can I modify to add this code in? The ‘authentication code’ is generated elsewhere so I cannot add it directly to the feed XMl file beforehand. Like for example, the XML is read and if the title has HD in it, then streamUrl = streamUrl + authentication code Thank you ---
**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/39 "2016-06-26T01:15:32Z")
> “matrixebiz” wrote: > Where and which file can I modify to add this code in? The ‘authentication code’ is generated elsewhere so I cannot add it directly to the feed XMl file beforehand. Like for example, the XML is read and if the title has HD in it, then streamUrl = streamUrl + authentication code > RokuFeed.brs in parseRokuItem() right after line 345, e.g: ```auto stream.url = _getXmlString (media, "streamUrl") stream.url = stream.url + authenticationCode ``` ---
**Author:** ![matrixebiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@matrixebiz](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/matrixebiz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692/40 "2016-06-26T01:30:15Z")
Hello, that is great for all the streams but like I mentioned I only want it to add the ‘authenticationcode’ to only the streams that have ‘HD’ in the Stream HD. Thx [Previous page](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/roku-channel-stream-has-1-too-many-clicks/7692.md?page=3)