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Hi,

I'm trying to play HLS live TV with Hollywood by downloading the .ts segments
one by one and playing them as local files. I've hit a problem I can't solve:
PlayVideo() hangs forever on a .ts segment.

Setup:
- Hollywood 11.0, Windows 64-bit
- AVCodec plugin: latest version
- Segment downloaded with DownloadFile(url$, {File = "proba.ts"}), ~1 MB,
about 5-6 seconds of video

Minimal script:

@VERSION 8,0
@REQUIRE "avcodec"

OpenVideo(1, "proba.ts")
DebugPrint("OpenVideo done")
PlayVideo(1, 0, 0)
DebugPrint("PlayVideo returned")

What happens:
- "OpenVideo done" is printed, so OpenVideo() succeeds without errors.
- "PlayVideo returned" is NEVER printed. The script just hangs on PlayVideo(),
the window stays black, and I have to kill it.
- The same happens if I remove @REQUIRE "avcodec" (so Hollywood uses the
Windows video renderer).
- The same script with a normal MP4 file works perfectly: it plays and
IsVideoPlaying() returns True for the whole duration.
- The .ts file plays fine in VLC.

Video info from the HLS master playlist: avc1.4d001f (H.264) video at 25 fps,
and the audio is declared as a separate rendition, so the segments probably
contain video only.

Is this a known limitation of the .ts/MPEG-TS support, or could it be a bug?
I can attach proba.ts if it helps.

Thanks!

Additional tests:
- Opening the segment directly by URL with httpstreamer (UsehURL = True,
default file mode) behaves the same: OpenVideo() succeeds and PlayVideo()
never returns. With FileMode = False, OpenVideo() fails with:
File "geo2-br1_298483828.ts" not recognized as a video stream!
- So the hang is independent of the data source (local file vs. HTTP) and
of avcodec (same result with and without the plugin).
- A regular MP4 plays fine with the same script.
- VLC reports a single stream in the segment: H.264, 854x480, 25 fps, and no
audio stream at all (the audio is a separate HLS rendition).

Can you provide the test file so I can debug this?

here is an example i upload it to wetransfer, with vlc work fine
https://we.tl/t-G7oKuJZzg2t30TO6

Thanks for the test file, it's fixed now. Apparently I had MPEG-TS support disabled in the ffmpeg build used by the plugin. It's enabled now and now your file loads and plays nicely.