PlayHLS V2.3 available - fixes to make more streams playable.
HLS can deliver a stream in a variety of formats. V2.3 fixes: - a problem with packed MP3 a format very rarely used. - MPEG2-ts streams which have a video track. Symptoms was a choppy stream which usually after a few mins, stopped or a stream very slow to start. - omission of "hls" format in Tune-in searches on Windows. V2.3 also improves handling ambiguous m3u playlist (i.e from MIME and suffix - the stream could be a http/mp3 stream or HLS). MPEG2-ts is a commonly used format, V2.3 makes a number of changes which improves playing of MPEG2-ts streams. Previously problem streams such as Fame 95fm Jamaica (https://univradio.streamgates.net/univ_visual_radio/fame/playlist.m3u8 ) which has a video track of an empty studio can now be played. A side effect means some HLS streams of TV channels can also be played as video is discarded. Example CBC News ( http://cbcnewshd-f.akamaihd.net/i/cbcnews_30@304030/index_256_av-p.m3u8 ). However there are some streams which do not play with PlayHLS V2.3 (and also ffmpeg) such as KUTX Texas ( https://kut-hls.streamguys1.com/kutx/playlist.m3u8 ). It is not clear what the problem is but the stream will stop after a while - the station seems to think the stream has been restarted. It may be something to do with cookies and/or https. Please report examples of any other problem streams. There is a possibility the handling of the m3u ambiguity will get it wrong so please report problem stream or breaking a previously working m3u stream. The repo URL for PlayHLS is http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/repo-playhls-v2.xml Alternate sourceforge which is unreliable http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bpaplugins/repo-playhls-v2.xml Please stop using the "beta"repo URL ( http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/repo-playhls-v2-beta.xml ) as it will not be updated for releases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103158 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
