Why Roku is not playing m3u8 playlist files?

[jathe 9]

Hi, I just got an encoder for live streaming, I try to add strm file "/tmp/1/playlist.m3u8" and I got "No compatible stream".

I can't play on Roku or Web ussing chrome.

Is there any way to support playing m3u8 playlist on Roku without enabling transcoding?

Is not an external source or http, is just a local playlist.

 

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  I don't believe we support playlists inside strm files - only direct media.  It is the same on any client, not just Roku, correct?

[jathe 9]

I tryied on Roku and Chrome.

If I "EnablePlaybackRemuxing" = true to the user then I can play it on both devices, the allways problem for this is the transcoding-temp files fillin up my hard drive.

 

[Luke 42077]

5 hours ago, jathe said:

I tryied on Roku and Chrome.

If I "EnablePlaybackRemuxing" = true to the user then I can play it on both devices, the allways problem for this is the transcoding-temp files fillin up my hard drive.

 

but they get cleared up when you stop playing, right?

[ebr 16169]

14 hours ago, jathe said:

If I "EnablePlaybackRemuxing" = true to the user then I can play it on both devices,

Ah, okay.  Sorry for the misinformation above.

Did you read the help text under that option that you disabled?

[jathe 9]

On 7/26/2023 at 11:38 PM, Luke said:

but they get cleared up when you stop playing, right?

Yes, when stop all files cleared.

1 hour of playtime makes near of 500 gb of segments that are useless.

 

[jathe 9]

On 7/27/2023 at 8:36 AM, ebr said:

Ah, okay.  Sorry for the misinformation above.

Did you read the help text under that option that you disabled?

Yes I did, the main problem is the hard disk fill up, I can't handle 4 users playing a sports event for example, 2 hours of playtime make about 1 TB for each event, if I have 4 users watching a channel I got 3-4 TB for disk space ... as I mentioned, that segments are useless since is a live streaming, the m3u8 playlist point to the last segment, if we are on segment 300 what is the need to keep the segments 1-290 for example...

 

[Luke 42077]

What version of the server are you on?