gstreamer 0.10 - problem starting m3u8 streams

Hi all,

 

hopefully some can give me hint to find a solution for my problem.

 

i am developing dreamplex a enigma2 client. i am quite far but have a strange problem playing transcoded media.

 

i start all the time the same movie. once with quality 7 and than for example quality 9. with q7 everything is great. the movie starts as expected. with q9 the movie never starts.

 

looking to the server i see everything is running. transcoder is running. when i take the uri an put it to vlc the movie start without problems even with q9.

 

i traked the error down to gstreamer 0.10. it is not enigma2 specific because if i try to start the movie with gst-launch with console on a ubuntu machine it is the same. q7 works up from q8 it does not :-(

 

i checked the m3u8 files and saw that the duration of the segments is 1 second with q9 and there are more than 6000 segments. the file that is playing has "only" near to 2200 with duration of 3 seconds.

 

so far the information.

 

now my question:

 

  • is there a possibililty to force plexserver to use higher durations to lower the amount of segments in the m3u8 file?
  • or do someone one what the problem could be. because gstreamer ist quite common and i am wondering that there is such a problem?

 

if i can give more information just let me know. i am working on this now for weeks and nailing it down to current situaiton was quite hard.

 

hopefully someone can give me the one hint to finish my plex client for enigma2 settop boxes.

 

thx in advance

 

 

maybe this helps other people developing a client.

there is a param that can be used. ;-) kind of tricky to find out but here it is ...

"secondsPerSegment"

just add this param to the m3u8 url.