ROKU Multiview

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Hello,

I am currently trying to implement multiview playback on my Roku Ultra device (4850x, OS 14.6).

For testing, I created multiple

However, when I try to play more than one video by setting control=“play”, I get the following error:

{ category: “mediaplayer”, clipid: 147, dbgmsg: “player: only one playing instance supported.”, drmerrcode: 0, errcode: 16, ignored: false, source: “” }

I was under the impression that Roku Ultra supports up to 4 simultaneous video streams. Am I missing something in my implementation?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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I am not an expert but I know people who are working on implementing multiview. I believe there might be a dev token you need to allow multiview on sideloaded channels which would be why its failing to play.

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Have you seen any documentation on Multiview? The only thing I’ve seen comes from the Developer Summit video where roMultiDecode is mentioned. Are you using that? I don’t think it’s as simple as creating multiple video nodes.

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There was also a mention of multiple Video nodes but i guess 14.6 doesn’t have it yet. @GD13 mentioned a dev token, is it beta participation or something like the that ?

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I believe so but I am not 100% sure. Since there is no docs available for multiview, I would start with enrolling in the beta program and going from there. It will at least get you a direct line to get some form of multiview docs.

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14.6 has roMultiDecode, but with no documentation, there’s no way to know how to use it.