EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET

[AntaresFR 9]

HI,

I'm trying to start an HLS from a specific point, but it seems I need the tag EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET in the m3u8.

Could it be possible to add it ? It looks like the ffmpeg command which generate the m3u8 list should contain -hls_start_time

I don't understand the main of StartTimeTicks in the API doc. I tried to add it to my playbackinfo request but it dont see it used.

Regards

[Luke 40082]

It's possible for the future, but in the meantime you can just do a seek client-side after it starts playing.

[AntaresFR 9]

Yes that's what i tried but without success at the moment

It doesn't start the stream, but i can see it tries to load corresponding segments.

var video = $('#video');
var gototime = Math.floor(StartPositionTicks/10000000);

if(Hls.isSupported()) {
    var config = {}
    hls = new Hls(config);
    hls.loadSource(data);
    hls.attachMedia(video[0]);
    hls.on(Hls.Events.MANIFEST_PARSED,function()
    {
        video[0].play();
        video.on("loadeddata",function() {
            if (gototime!=0) video[0].currentTime = gototime;
        });
    });
}

[AntaresFR 9]

HLS support is really bad on chrome, even with HLS.js it's shitty...

When i manually seek, sometimes it works, sometimes it fails...

On the emby web client, there are some videos i'm not able to play more than few minutes, then i got a buffer full fatal error in chrome...

I hate chrome