Bug #5014
closed
Feature #4242: Set offset in HTS m3u8 MUX playlist for IPTV
Current time isn't used when opening an *.m3u8 stream
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Description
The German TV station "Das Erste" offers to jump back half an hour within its live stream.
For this to happen, the web player doesn't open another m3u8 file. It just jumps back within the current stream as if you had already been playing the stream for half an hour.
So I assume, the web player uses the current time of the computer to determine where to start within the given m3u8 file.
If I give the m3u8 file to VLC, it starts the stream where it's supposed to start it - "now". So far so good.
VLC also seems to use the computer's current time - and not any information on the website itself.
But TVHeadend will instead always start "half an hour ago" within the stream.
I 've added the station "the regular way" entering the plain url of the stream as a new mux without any pipe commands.
I assume that TVHeadend starts "in the beginning of the stream" without paying any attention to the current time.
The expected behavior is to start at the "current" point of the stream using the computer's time.
There is the url of the m3u8 and the url of the website of the stream:
https://daserstelive-lh.akamaihd.net/i/daserste_de@38086/index_2692_av-p.m3u8
https://live.daserste.de/
The stream is geoblocked, but this tv station also offers non-geoblocked version of the stream with slightly different content.
I don't know the streaming url of the non-geoblocked version.
I don't expect anyone to make TVheadend able to use the "jump back" feature on purpose, I'd just be really happy if you made TVHeadend NOT using it ;-)
I'll gladly give further information on my exact setup if this becomes neccessary.
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