2013-02-09, 19:05
Hello
Having HLS support in DVDPlayer is great, but there are a few "must-haves" to make it usable for the increasing number of HLS streams out there:
1) HTTP/SOCKS Proxy Support - the DVDPlayer needs to be able to download chunks via a set proxy. At the moment, I am having to set an environment variable and fork a background ffmpeg. Nasty.
2) HTTPS Support. The very latest ffmpeg has https support. This does not work with DVDPlayer in Frodo.
3) Ability to select track. For example, Channel 5 has various bit-rate videos. Ffmpeg allows this to be set using the "-map" command - there needs to be something similar for DVDPlayer.
The only workaround for all these issues right now is to use a background ffmpeg process - this is really messy. Where streams use HLS without needing a proxy or https, DVDPlayer is just superb.
Thanks in advance for reading.
D
Having HLS support in DVDPlayer is great, but there are a few "must-haves" to make it usable for the increasing number of HLS streams out there:
1) HTTP/SOCKS Proxy Support - the DVDPlayer needs to be able to download chunks via a set proxy. At the moment, I am having to set an environment variable and fork a background ffmpeg. Nasty.
2) HTTPS Support. The very latest ffmpeg has https support. This does not work with DVDPlayer in Frodo.
3) Ability to select track. For example, Channel 5 has various bit-rate videos. Ffmpeg allows this to be set using the "-map" command - there needs to be something similar for DVDPlayer.
The only workaround for all these issues right now is to use a background ffmpeg process - this is really messy. Where streams use HLS without needing a proxy or https, DVDPlayer is just superb.
Thanks in advance for reading.
D