Selecting proper stream from .m3u8

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I have video’s being hosted on Brightcove. For any given video that provide a master m3u8 playlist pointing to multiple streams of different bandwidths. If I point the roku to this playlist directly, it just takes the first stream in the playlist and plays it. In my case this is a problem because the first stream in the list happens to be the lowest bandwidth stream and it looks terrible on a HD screen. Is there a way to have the Roku choose the right stream?

In the event that isn’t possible, I have begun parsing the playlist and pulling out the individual streams and populating the episode object’s StreamUrls, StreamQualities (“HD” or “SD”), and StreamBitrates. The problem is that when I give the roku (hooked up to an HD TV via HDMI) an episode with an HD stream and a SD stream, it shows the SD feed instead of the HD one. Why is this?

How can I make the Roku play the appropriate stream?

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Be sure to set the SwitchingStrategy content metadata attribute. An issue was introduced in the latest firmware that causes the behavior you described if the SwitchingStrategy isn’t explicitly set.

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How do you set it? What object do you set this on? What should it be set to?

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“greengiant83” wrote:
How do you set it? What object do you set this on? What should it be set to?

switchingStrategy is an attribute of the content-meta-data structure that defines your video. Possible values are called out in the Component Reference: http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/RokuSDK … +Meta-Data

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Awesome. Thank you