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<blockquote data-quote="johanj" data-source="post: 1155582" data-attributes="member: 88055">I think there are multiple functions for historical reasons. One can do the steps manually: initStream and then startStream. Then use the resulting url in a video player. At this stage one can stop the stream and seek, or change audio, or change streaming profile, and then start it again without having to start all over again with initStream. About seeking. The way above is how MPExtended do it(don't seem to be a standardized way) I could do it in a similar way when fiddling with streaming using Emby as backend. Benefit with Emby is that they can burn in subtitles and that is not possible with MPExtended. Another benefit is that there can use profiles that support native seeking in the video player, I think it is a HSL profile. Right now in MPiV we have little control of the native video player and therefore use an additional seekbar in the gui when not in fullscreen mode. The DoStream is a simplified function that came at a later stage, I have not used it. I think it's a combined init and start stream function. I don't use RetrieveStream and I never use any raw data, only the urls for the video/audio stream.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="johanj, post: 1155582, member: 88055"] I think there are multiple functions for historical reasons. One can do the steps manually: initStream and then startStream. Then use the resulting url in a video player. At this stage one can stop the stream and seek, or change audio, or change streaming profile, and then start it again without having to start all over again with initStream. About seeking. The way above is how MPExtended do it(don't seem to be a standardized way) I could do it in a similar way when fiddling with streaming using Emby as backend. Benefit with Emby is that they can burn in subtitles and that is not possible with MPExtended. Another benefit is that there can use profiles that support native seeking in the video player, I think it is a HSL profile. Right now in MPiV we have little control of the native video player and therefore use an additional seekbar in the gui when not in fullscreen mode. The DoStream is a simplified function that came at a later stage, I have not used it. I think it's a combined init and start stream function. I don't use RetrieveStream and I never use any raw data, only the urls for the video/audio stream. [/QUOTE]

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