florca wrote: > Hi - Not sure if this is possible to control within the plugin, but > would it be possible to always "Stop" a Live Stream (thus avoiding > collecting metadata and freeing up resources) but honour the Players' > Pause / Stop preference for On Demand at "Power Off"? I like being able > to resume On Demand programmes at the point I left them, which seems to > work well with the current Pause at Power Off setting. Not really. DASH and HLS are chunked http (mulitple sequentlalhttp GETs each about 6.4 secs long) which make them a bit more diffiuclt to handle than normal http/acc streams. When a streamn is paused - the actual time-of-day has to be remembered as chunks are rleated to time-of-day. So as it stand when a stream is paused - no more GET s are used but plugin remembers the pause position and goes a refetches the nearest chunk to the pause time. However DASH does not support metdata so the plugin is mashup fetching metadata from other sources which do ot dstay around - info only valid at the time of fetch so if stream is paused - no data is availbale.
In summary. when a tsream is paused. No resoruces are really used except very 30 secs a fetch to meetadat which is a small amunt of data. LMS wastes far more data polling the players even though they are off. The issue here is that a live DASH stream which is paused for more than 3 hours (actually BBC defined - only 10 mins for Flac streams) cannot be restarted - you cannot press play and expect the stream to play at the point which play was stopped. So it is better in this case just to stop the stream. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
