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Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:04 pm
by juanjo
I'm making a video player app for iOS and Android, for a television station, and the streaming provider does not offer me URLs to individual videos, but playlists in m3u8 format.
In an early test, for a moment, it began to play a video (on the iPad), so it seems possible, but since that time has not worked again.
Does exists some documentation about it, or can you guide me on formats and other options (multibitrate…) of the m3u8 in the mobile player?
Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:15 am
by LCNeil
Hi Juanjo,
The following links provide some informations on the various formats supported by both native players on Android and iOS-
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios ... Layer.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/appe ... rmats.html
Although I have had no direct experience with implementing m3u8 playlists I tried the following example playlist and it played back on an iOS native player without any issues-
http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1 ... fg/sl.m3u8
Would you be able to supply the m3u8 playlist you will be using? This would allow me to conduct some further tests and then possibly advise further.
Kind Regards,
Neil Roger
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RunRev Support Team ~
http://www.runrev.com
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Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:12 pm
by Camster
Hi Juanjo,
I second that the m3u8 files play back on the IOS native player without problems.
Try this:
Create a simple stack for iPhone - landscape with the following code, save it and run in the sim...it should work.
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on opencard
mobileControlCreate "player", "HLSplayer" --create a player HLSplayer
mobileControlSet "HLSplayer", "visible", true
mobileControlSet "HLSplayer", "rect", "5,5,460,280" --adjust these settings to suit your screen real-estate
mobileControlSet "HLSplayer", "fileName", "url of your m3u8 files here" --stream the HLS files
end opencard
Hope this helps.
Camster
Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:16 pm
by juanjo
Thank you both!
I'll try it in the next days.
And what about Android?
Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:56 am
by Camster
Could not get this to work on Android. sorry, (on the Android emulator that is)
as a matter of fact I cannot play any video on Android and that includes simply browsing a vid in youtube! No time to troubleshoot in the next days...
Neil, any insight?
Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:40 am
by LCNeil
Hi Camster,
Apologises for the delayed respose
Video playback is severely hindered on the Android emulator. This is an emulator issue and does not relate to LiveCode. Playback of video on an Android emulator is very dependent on having a powerful development machine.
If possible, I would recommend deploying your stack to a physical device as this should allow the playback of video without any issue.
The following are some stack overflow post from other Android developers who experienced similar video playback issues on the Android emulator-
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2544 ... ov-3gp-etc
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1425 ... remote-url
Kind Regards,
Neil Roger
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RunRev Support Team ~
http://www.runrev.com
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Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:25 pm
by rayanah
i have already same problem , Android Could not get this to work.
Re: Lesson 5: m3u8 playlists in the mobile video player
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:04 pm
by Camster
Rayanah,
You mean you could not get the videos to work on the Android emulator right? or on your actual Android device?
LC confirmed that videos actually DO NOT work on the Android emu. see Neil's post above...
Regards,
Camster.