expectingtofly wrote: > Many thanks for looking into this. > > The other way that I wondered was worth considering was to pass the PID > from the AOD feed in the iPlayer URL. That can then be used to verify > the availability of the VPID provided by the AOD in the playlist.json > before playing and select the alternative VPID available if it isn't. > That has a couple of advantages. 1. It only calls the playlist.json > when trying to play. 2. It is still plays in the format and quality > level chosen. > The PID can be an optional parameter in the URL so the verification only > happens if present, therefore not impacting the Iplayer extras plugin. I don't think that is good for the way iplayer protocol handler works - it expects to have URLS for different formats ready to go and it tries each one in turn - we are the "about to play" level of LMS not the processing of feeds - it kind of mixes processing and may have side effects.
My suggestion of adding a step between AOD and iplayer generation will also nbe used when a user tries to play a track and the additional step will , in the case of podcast only, able to modify the iplayer URL to remove non playable DASH and HLS URLS so iplayer URLs still only has playable URLs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
