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Still new, but the last bit of advice was helpful so I thought I'd
try again for a little more. I've made it to the point where I'm
trying to load that JSON file I mentioned before. I've modified the
HLS code to ask for this file prior to loading any of the media,
since that's pretty close to what I want in the end. I'm asking for
the file using stream_UrlNew(), and I'm struggling with it a bit.<br>
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Here's the code:<br>
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<pre> msg_Dbg(s,"Loading JSON file from URL: %s",p_sys->abc_url);
stream_t *p_ts = stream_UrlNew(s,p_sys->abc_url);
if (!p_ts) {
return VLC_EGENERIC;
}
uint64_t storedSize = stream_Size(p_ts);
msg_Dbg(s," -- url returns %"PRIu64" bytes?",storedSize);
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and here's the corresponding log output:<br>
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<pre>stream_filter_abc stream debug: Loading JSON file from URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://localhost:80/~qa1007/cgi-bin/abc.cgi">http://localhost:80/~qa1007/cgi-bin/abc.cgi</a>
[0x10a5579a0] main stream debug: creating access 'http' location='localhost:80/~qa1007/cgi-bin/abc.cgi', path='(null)'
[0x10a555f80] main access debug: looking for access module: 2 candidates
[0x10a555f80] access_http access debug: http: server='localhost' port=80 file='/~qa1007/cgi-bin/abc.cgi'
[0x10a555f80] main access debug: net: connecting to localhost port 80
[0x10a555f80] main access debug: connection succeeded (socket = 17)
[0x10a555f80] access_http access debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 200
[0x10a555f80] access_http access debug: Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8r
[0x10a555f80] access_http access debug: Connection: close
[0x10a555f80] access_http access debug: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
[0x10a555f80] access_http access debug: Content-Type: application/json
[0x10a555f80] main access debug: using access module "access_http"
[0x10a55c3e0] main stream debug: Using stream method for AStream*
[0x10a55c3e0] main stream debug: starting pre-buffering
[0x10a55c3e0] main stream debug: received first data after 0 ms
[0x10a55c3e0] main stream debug: pre-buffering done 180 bytes in 0s - 621 KiB/s
[0x10a5579a0] stream_filter_abc stream debug: -- url returns 0 bytes?
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I'm loading the URL (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://localhost:80/~qa1007/cgi-bin/abc.cgi">http://localhost:80/~qa1007/cgi-bin/abc.cgi</a>)
using stream_UrlNew(). It seems to access the URL correctly and
occasionally it actually works. But here's an example where it
doesn't seem to get the data into the stream buffer. <br>
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Any thoughts about what's going on? It seems to have received the
data (180 bytes) but doesn't want to put it into the buffer, so when
I ask the stream for it's size it thinks it's empty? <br>
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I'm definitely trying to do this synchronously, blocking the calling
thread until the data arrives. That might not be the best approach,
so if there's something I should do differently here
(recommendations of "look at module XYZ" are welcome too) please
share.<br>
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Thanks for your help!<br>
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