I've been waiting patiently for quiet a while for this feature as i have a bunch of ts streams that i've been viewing with xbmc on a firetv because i can't get plex to transcode them into a format that plexconnect and the appletv can agree upon. So is it in or does it have any prospect of being in, in the near future? i'd love to not have to write a whole seperate program and integrate it into plexconnect.
nothin?
I think the answer is "it depends" ... what kind of live streams are you talking about?
h.264 ts streams from a vod service. Basically i'd like to watch the polish version of kartina.tv on my appletv through plexconnect but plex previously didn't support transcoding so i stopped developing it and have been running a firetv with the xbmc plugin i rewrote just for that one thing.
As far as I know, the Plex transcoder is able to transcode live streams, but not currently to the HLS format required by your AppleTV. Since the channel framework currently has no way of telling PMS that the stream is a live one, that flag is not set by the transcoder and thus the reason for failure.
I know that PMS can transcode into live Matroska since live streams are working on Chromecast in that way:
Input: Live HLS
Output: Live Matroska
-> Working on CC
As far as I know, the Plex transcoder is able to transcode live streams, but not currently to the HLS format required by your AppleTV. Since the channel framework currently has no way of telling PMS that the stream is a live one, that flag is not set by the transcoder and thus the reason for failure.
I know that PMS can transcode into live Matroska since live streams are working on Chromecast in that way:
Input: Live HLS
Output: Live Matroska
-> Working on CC
nuts. thanks. Then i guess i'll continue to work on a backend to do this seperately from plex and hijack a second channel with plexconnect.
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