getUnixTimeMs(): Returns Only Default Value

[marco-studer-srf]

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Detailed question

Pillarbox 4.0.0 ships the method mentioned in the title. Is it correct, that this would allow us to get the exact time of a live stream based on its position?

When I call getUnixTimeMs(), I always get the default value C.TIME_UNSET, implying that either the timeline is empty or the window start time is unset.

How do I correctly set the timeline or the window start time?

[StaehliJ]

This feature works only with stream that have timestamps in it's stream. So if you never have something beside C.TIME_UNSET, this mean probably your stream doesn't have them. Can you tell us which stream you are testing it?

[marco-studer-srf]

I am testing with

Live(
   urn=urn:srf:audio:ee1fb348-2b6a-4958-9aac-ec6c87e190da,
   title=MediaTitle(value=Radio SRF 4 News),
   imageUrl=https://il.srgssr.ch/integrationlayer/2.0/image-scale-sixteen-to-nine/https://play-pac-public-production.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/images/4dcc8d08-93b0-4b1b-bfe1-62a4e473b82d.jpeg
)

We are setting the media items like this:

player.setMediaItems(
    media.resources.map {
        SRGMediaItem(it.urn.toString()) {
            host(environment.toIlHost())
        }
    },
)

[StaehliJ]

Sorry for the reponse time. As expected, this audio live stream doesn't have timestamp defined in its stream. It should be improve in the future with LSVA by Swisstxt. Current state is that all radio live stream doesn't have timestamp :(

Pro tips: You can also add meta data to the SRGMediaItem so you could display metadata quicker and have prettier playlist display, if you have any.

SRGMediaItem("urn"){
    mediaMetadata { 
      setTitle("My title")
      setArtworkUri(....)
      }
}

[marco-studer-srf]

Thank you for the clarification. Do you know to whom I can talk at SwissTxt to get this improvement going?

[defagos]

@marco-studer-srf The new audio livestream delivery system (LSA) should fix this issue but we were informed development was paused by SwissTXT for a while.

We have several topics to discuss with SwissTXT about audio livestreams. We can handle the communication for you.

[marco-studer-srf]

Thanks a lot :) Please keep me posted about the results.