#hls-direct
ivory token
Is that still the way to play a channel with vlc without transcoding?
It is not working for me.
long narwhal
you're right, looks like vlc is no longer happy with it. you might have to use mpv for now
are you on the just-released version, or?
ivory token
Just released. TV Headend is not happy with it either. I had to switch my movie channels to segmenter
long narwhal
alright, ill see if i can track down the problematic change
ivory token
thanks
long narwhal
did you skip a version? what version did you upgrade from?
i've gone back a few versions and it doesn't look like vlc is ever happy with it, just mpv
the only thing that changed that might affect tv headend would be the content-type response header
maybe not even that, that was for the segmenter mode
ivory token
Actually i am not sure when it stopped working because I was mostly watching sports for the last month or so.
segmenter works fine.
long narwhal
ok, i would focus on tv headend and not vlc, im not sure that hls direct ever worked with vlc
ivory token
It did. That is the way I always tested my channels
long narwhal
it wasn't the hybrid mode?
ivory token
it worked even after you remove hybrid mode
long narwhal
ok, ill look back further tomorrow. did some quick testing on the last two releases and neither work with vlc (for hls direct)
mpv continues to work fine
ivory token
ok. Looking at the PRs. How can I get to the version where you introduced ogg?
long narwhal
it's in the latest release, ogg files should be scanned in song libraries now
for hls direct, i haven't found anything to indicate that it ever worked with vlc - even year-old messages stating that it specifically doesn't work e.g. #899814879819612170 message
so if you were getting playback, i think something else must have been going on
i think there was a time when the streaming mode override was ignored in the url and it defaulted to the channel's streaming mode, maybe that was it