Only limited HLS support

olof / WWW-SVT-Play

Perl module for interfacing with SVT Play (obsolete, not working)

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Only limited HLS support #1

Open olof opened 11 years ago

olof commented 11 years ago

Since SVTPlay moved over to using HLS and HDS for their streams, several key assumptions has ceased to be true.

We no longer get something we can play with mplayer directly
The bitrate attribute is no longer unique.
The bitrate is 0.

So, I've been working on supporting HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), and that's something that others could benefit from as well, so it's a separate project: Media::HLS. https://github.com/olof/Media-HLS

olof commented 11 years ago

WWW::SVT::Play is now aware of HLS and HDS. You can easily get information on URLs to give to your HLS/HDS aware applications, but there is not yet any real support for the two protocols. HLS is however a simple m3u based format, so you can easily curl the URL and choose the URL you'd like to play with e.g. mplayer, as mplayer has some level of support for HLS.