<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">The current implementation of the httplive input filter as a design flaw. It is reloading the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; ">meta index </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; ">file (directory to all other streams) constantly. This will basically break compatibility with any server that dynamically calculates the bitrate of the streams based on content and will also break compatibility with servers that embed session management into the links (wowza for example).</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; ">The following patch addresses this issue and also fixes a few bugs:</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">1) It k</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; ">eeps track of the number of additions to the playlist and trigger the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; ">download thread when new items are added.</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">2) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; ">Incorrect parameter passed to the vlc_UrlParse function:</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">- vlc_UrlParse(&segment->url, p->url.psz_buffer, 0);</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">+ vlc_UrlParse(&segment->url, p->url.psz_path, 0);</span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">3) </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Change the default wait time for playlist reload to (0.5 x wait) for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">live streams instead of the (1 x wait). With the current setting, live streams will stall.</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">4) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Move the definition of the wait variable to the correct place (it was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">inside the loop, which made the redefinition of its value useless).</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">5) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Change the way the retrieval back-off algorithm works to something </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">more </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">reasonable. The way it was, it could never recover when it went all the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">way to 3 times the wait time. Now, it goes to have the wait time for a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">retry and then goes back to normal.</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">6) I added a new option that will let the user specify the specific stream to use from the meta index file. This option is useful if you do not want to switch between bitrates when they are available.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Consolas"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Sergio</span></font></div></body></html>