Support: Mobile Web Interface V2 iOS Streaming

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by LehighBri

And is there a way for to spit out a result that is a .m3u8 file?

I did ask that a few times from jreichen... But usually you can simply launch the URL from the video player or even just let the system decide how to handle it.

[LehighBri]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

I did ask that a few times from jreichen... But usually you can simply launch the URL from the video player or even just let the system decide how to handle it.

The problem with the current approach is when I use that URL in XBMC, it only treats it as HTTP live streaming if it has a .m3u8 extension... the mimetype unfortunately isn't good enough (XBMC checks for mimetype AND extension). Is there a way you can perhaps add an additional parameter to the URL that is optional that allows me to specify what extension to output the results in (e.g. two that come to mind are m3u8 and perhaps strm)? That would be a HUGE help in terms of supporting some of this in the XBMC addon!!!

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by LehighBri

The problem with the current approach is when I use that URL in XBMC, it only treats it as HTTP live streaming if it has a .m3u8 extension...

I think jreichen mentioned that you could actually add the .m3u8 extension and that would work, but I don't think I ever tried, as I got it to work differently...

EDIT: Never mind, that didn't work...

[kricker]

That does not appear to work. You just get a file not found error.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

That does not appear to work. You just get a file not found error.

Was afraid it would do that...

Try version 1.3.6.56 and see if it helps.

[kricker]

Hmmm....I'm not seeing an update available in Sage.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

Hmmm....I'm not seeing an update available in Sage.

Oops, forgot I had to confirm the submission...

[kricker]

I just tried:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/H...FileId=2823754

I still got the not found error.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

I just tried

Don't use the .m3u8 in the query, forget that experiment.

[kricker]

Ahh. Okay I'll try the normal link in XBMC now.

[kricker]

Still no go. What change did you make? Should the url return a .m38u file now?

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

Still no go. What change did you make? Should the url return a .m38u file now?

I added:

resp.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline;filename=" + mediaFileId + ".m3u8");

to the "HttpServletResponse resp", which should be the way to send the filename...

Line 116 of:

http://sageplugins.cvs.sourceforge.n....8&view=markup

[Fonceur]

A new version should be showing up soon, see if it helps. I replaced the "inline" by "attachment", which might be more appropriate, but I'm mostly guessing...

[kricker]

Thanks for the attempts. I'll try it out and report back.

[kricker]

No luck yet. I may need to dig further into XBMC. I am getting the .m3u8 file from the link.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

No luck yet. I may need to dig further into XBMC. I am getting the .m3u8 file from the link.

Does it support variant playlist or only a single bit rate? Try appending:

&Quality=440

[kricker]

It supports a more than one stream, it just picks the first one in the list.

This stream, for example, works fine:
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/u.../playlist.m3u8

A main difference I see in the content is the working file has .m3u8 on the stream names. The sage generated playlist does not.

Above playlist:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=895331,CODECS="avc1.77.30, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=640x360
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_8/iphone/playlist.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1028509,CODECS="avc1.77.31, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=854x480
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_7/iphone/playlist.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=582586,CODECS="avc1.77.13, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=320x180
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_9/iphone/playlist.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=579810,CODECS="avc1.77.21, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=426x240
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_13/iphone/playlist.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=444780,CODECS="avc1.77.13, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=320x180
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_10/iphone/playlist.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=435802,CODECS="avc1.77.21, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=480x270
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_11/iphone/playlist.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=218542,CODECS="avc1.77.12, mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=240x134
http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/wow09/uhls/1524/streams/live_12/iphone/playlist.m3u8

Sage generated playlist:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=440000
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/HTTPLiveStreamingPlaylist?MediaFileId=2823754&ConversionId=34656a42-73b4-4e14-99c0-d8289d688461&Quality=440
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=840000
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/HTTPLiveStreamingPlaylist?MediaFileId=2823754&ConversionId=34656a42-73b4-4e14-99c0-d8289d688461&Quality=840
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1240000
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/HTTPLiveStreamingPlaylist?MediaFileId=2823754&ConversionId=34656a42-73b4-4e14-99c0-d8289d688461&Quality=1240
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=240000
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/HTTPLiveStreamingPlaylist?MediaFileId=2823754&ConversionId=34656a42-73b4-4e14-99c0-d8289d688461&Quality=240
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=150000
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/HTTPLiveStreamingPlaylist?MediaFileId=2823754&ConversionId=34656a42-73b4-4e14-99c0-d8289d688461&Quality=150

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

A main difference I see in the content is the working file has .m3u8 on the stream names. The sage generated playlist does not.

Each individual stream would also result in an actual .m3u8 extension, even if it's not shown. So I don't know if it's really the actual issue...

[kricker]

I have found if I use one of the links directly it works. Such as:

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/stream/HTTPLiveStreamingPlaylist?MediaFileId=2823754&ConversionId=2e3ca6a8-3582-42f5-8f0b-8af6cbfdf3b4&Quality=440

I wonder why it can't parse that out from the playlist properly.....

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by kricker

I have found if I use one of the links directly it works.

For the ConversionId, you can pretty much provide anything you want. In principle you want some kind of unique identifier, like say:

UUID.randomUUID()

While the allowed bit rates are:

150, 240, 440, 840, 1240, 1840

You can also optionally provide Height and Width.

I wonder why it can't parse that out from the playlist properly.....

Probably a good question to ask the XBMC people...