GoogleTV Mediaplayer cannot handle http datasource with Transfer-Encoding : chunked

Question

I am trying to play a raw liveTV mpeg2_ts stream via google tv Media player; The stream is unbounded (live tv) so there is no content-length. The stream is accessed via a url that looks like this http:///livetv?channum=X

This was tested with VLC has a client and worked great. However using GTV is another story

The stream response header contains the header Tranfer-Encoding : chunked. Attempting to play that stream in GTV media player causes the following error :

I/AVAPIMediaPlayer(142): Found HTTP success. Connection is HTTP/1.1, code was 206 I/AVAPIMediaPlayer(142): Found content type video/mpeg W/AVAPIMediaPlayer(142): Error, reached end of headers before finding required fields.

Looking at this file: gtv_curl_transfer_engine.cpp it seems that v3 has removed the support for Transfer-Encoding and only supports / requires a Content-Length.

the previous version of the same file (GTV v2 gtv_curl_transfer_engine.cpp) supported it but it was removed in the current version.

what was the rationale to remove the support ? and how would one work around it ?

I was thinking about a set of temp files and chaining mediaplayer instances for playback but I would rather limit file system interactions given the nature of the stream...

Answer 1

From my interactions with google, there is no plan to change this behavior. The course of action is to provide the videos in a HTTP Live stream format (m3u8)