Dynamically loading playlist

rbalhorn — May 20, 2015 06:58PM EDT

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I am trying to create a dynamic loading playlist. The way it works is that I have a looping playlist running a "slate" that runs for 10 seconds then repeats. After each time it completes there is a function that checks if there are any changes in the playlist. To further complicate things I want the playlist in an rss format.

here is what I have:

jwplayer('playercontainer').setup({
playlist: 'http://localhost:8888/gcdev/playlisteng.rss',
repeat: true,
width: '1280',
height: '720',
aspectratio: '16:9',
androidhls: true
});

jwplayer('playermukFcrAGIdgW').onComplete(function() {
var random_num = Math.floor((Math.random() * 1000) + 1);
jwplayer('playercontainer').load("http://localhost:8888/gcdev/playlisteng.rss?nocache="+random_num);
});

Now when the item completes every 10 seconds it runs the command just fine (tested with a few console.log()s) but I get an error "error loading playlist: no playable sources found" when I make changes to the playlist containing an HLS live stream (m3u8). If I immediately refresh the page it works just fine. If I use another mp4 video it works fine without the refresh.

Is there a way to mix formats or do they all have to be m3u8 files? or something else I dont know of.

Thanks,