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Adaptive streaming support

See original GitHub issue

I was wondering: does Cumulus support adaptive streaming playlists? I have a TV stream that has a root index.m3u8 that contains the following code:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=122032,CODECS="mp4a.40.2"
Stream(05)/index.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=425080,RESOLUTION=256x144
Stream(01)/index.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=686646,RESOLUTION=512x288
Stream(02)/index.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1185254,RESOLUTION=768x432
Stream(03)/index.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1798298,RESOLUTION=1024x576
Stream(04)/index.m3u8

Android starts playing the lowest stream (don’t know if 05 or 01) but it does not progressively switch to the higher res ones even if the bandwidth allows it. Meanwhile, setting the stream source directly to 04 for instance works. Is it a known limitation?

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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Flekercommented, Mar 19, 2016

Playback is handled by ExoPlayer, so I’d have to figure out why it’s picking one stream over another. On Mar 19, 2016 5:57 AM, “Alberto Gasparin” notifications@github.com wrote:

Indeed, good enough approach. Is there a setting somewhere or it will be part of a next release?

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nextuxcommented, Mar 19, 2016

I’ve resorted to forcing Cumulus TV to use the highest m3u8 within the root index.m3u8 file, as I too find that is uses the first one in the list, which in a lot of cases is a lower quality version.

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