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HLS streams have good video but no audio. Looking at the video definitions supported by Roku and looking at the video definitions served up by my PeerTube instance it seems they should work.

Current work around is to play MP4 streams instead of HLS.

Per title.

Some MP4 streams show a blank black screen but have audio working. Some MP4 streams show a blank black screen with no audio.

Status of locale specific strings:

Pull requests for language support will be greatly appreciated.

Roku seems to be picking a much lower resolution/bitrate version of the video than it needs to.

Bit rate calculation has been reviewed and seems to be reasonable so the cause of this is unknown.

Should show duration of video, possibly tags, category, etc.

Also it should display related videos.

Hi!

I'm new to brightscript, but I've done some coding on other platforms in the past.

I'm working with some first time coders to build a roku channel using the peervue source as an educational project.

We're going to tie it to a single instance with heavy moderation. Hopefully, we'll be able to get it published in the official roku store. (and, of course, any improvements we're able to make I will be happy to submit here as PRs, if you're interested.)

They're trying to figure out how to implement playlist support, such that one of the rows on the home scene can be playlists, with the thumbnail of each playlist displayed, and clicking through gets you a detail view with all of the videos in the playlist.

One of the students was able to get a detail view working without many issues, and I think one of the new coders who is working on the project got it to queue up the next video in the playlist automatically.

Where they're struggling is figure out how to get the playlists to display in the home scene. I took a quick look earlier, and saw that we'll need to modify sub loadVideoInfo(uuid) in home_scene.brs, but I suspect that there are other places I've missed.

I was hoping you'd be able to provide some guidance on other places in the code that might need to be updated to enable playlist support.

Either way, thank you for your time, and look for a fork from us soon.

By default searches should use the Roku language as a default for finding videos.

But the user should also be able to specify another language (maybe multiple languages) or no language preference at all.

Since the last update to this repo, it seems that ROKU has got rid of private channels: https://www.rokuguide.com/articles/roku-has-removed-all-private-channels-from-roku-devices

However, they still have something called "beta channels" which can be added via https://my.roku.com/account/add . Does Peervue still work through this mechanism? The code PEERVUE does not seem to be recognized when I enter it on the page above. (I'm in the US.)

It might be possible to start pre-loading the video when the details screen is made visible (or even possibly when the video is highlighted on the overview page. That would reduce the time a user would need to wait for the video to start playing.

Looking at Roku’s Distribution Agreement paragraph 10.3 we cannot “include any web browser(s) in your Application, or enable end users to enter web addresses into your Application". Allowing the end user to enter the PeerTube instance server URL may be in violation.

Possibly a drop down list of available servers could be used. However as of this writing there are 452 instances which makes for an unwieldy pulldown.

Maybe a search text entry but instead of allowing a URL it should search within a list of known instances.

If an instance no longer exists then the app stops functioning. There is no command specifying what to do if an instance URL can't be found the problem occurs at line 35 of load_config_task.brs I don't understand the code as of yet or I'd fix it myself but if I had a guide I would make a routine that would either allow me to pres a key to drop me into the setup screen when that happens so that i can then input an instance URL that's valid. No matter how many times make install is invoked the same error screen shows up with a code 404 URL https://whatever.com not found and it just stalls there. I'm just going to try to hack it if I can't get any direction. It's the same using the git repo or the unofficial channel. Once i put an offending URL in the unofficial channel I have to delete the channel and reinstall it for it to start from scratch. No such luck for the git repo, make install just receives the same error screen. I don't know how to fix it yet.

Would you mind adding https://MountainTown.video and/or https://video.ellijaymakerspace.org to the instance list?

Pressing the * on the Roku remote does not bring up the Roku options.

Roku built in fonts apparently only support Latin based alphabets. In theory, Roku channels can include custom fonts. But apparently the size of the custom font is limited to 40 or so KB. A universal font, at least the open source TTF ones I've found, are far larger than this.

Possible option: Create a subset of a universal font that includes the languages seen fairly often in PeerTube videos (Russian, Chinese, Japanese) but excludes all others.