HLS Direct

Ben_TV

Hi,
what should I do to use HLS Direct without having slowdowns or glitches between one show and another? I've tried to convert a collection of videos so that they all had the same characteristics (resolution, codec, etc.) but this doesn't seem to be enough to completely eliminate glitches between one program and another.
Or does it just depend on the reader?

LongMan

It depends on the client. It needs to support discontinuity. Most don't

Ben_TV

Ok thanks,
i'm using and old version of Skybox vr as player

Ben_TV

By the way with VLC and the option --sout-keep I can stream (without re-encoding) a collection of videos with the exact same characteristics without glitches. But VLC doesn't have the real nice schedule / shuffle section of ErsatzTV.

jason

By the way with VLC and the option --sout-keep I can stream (without re-encoding) a collection of videos with the exact same characteristics without glitches.

These are different things. VLC is a client which contains a video player. ETV is a server which generates video and is therefore restricted by the capabilities of the client video players. Opening a single channel and having mixed content (resolution changes, framerate changes, audio channel changes, codec changes, etc) is not something that video players naturally support. While in your scenario, VLC understands that there are multiple items in its playlist. If there were a solution to watch everything seamlessly without transcoding it would be the solution; there would be no need to transcode.

With that said, I have had varying degrees of success with HLS Direct and TiviMate (Android), MPV (Desktop) and Jellyfin (Desktop - not browser).

Ben_TV

OK, I understand
but in this case I'm using vlc like a streamer, not as a player
thanks for your patience