AnonymousHey Nathan, thanks for the response.
Yes, I’m quite sure that I was casting a web stream. It was when I was trying ‘anything and everything’ I read off of various blogs, before I was really logging the various factors. But I don’t download and it was before I was using a vid file to check different configuations (I don’t watch any video files yet, I got kodi only for streaming.
But: It was def. a web stream. I believe SALTS, but possibly could have been Genesis or maybe 1Channel. But Salts is the one I use most most often. I was using an external player, LocalCast if I remember correctly, possibly Allcast. (And using that playtocore or whatever file to force-play kodi on a caster/player.
I remember that the .strm file seemed to ‘hand off’ to a video file. I did catch glimpses of the end of the link/file. Most showed up as .flv files and wouldn’t play. But once I got lucky and it was an .mp4 file. I didn’t play it very long, it either crashed or I tried some other link. But it did play. I remember reading something about either Chromecast or my TV only being able to play .mp4 video. And I spent time trying to find another .mp4 stream and wasn’t having any luck, since I couldn’t see in advance the file type. Got frustrated and moved on to other methods.
I’ll try to find some of the posts from others that are able to stream from a web stream. But there’s usually some deeper level of config involved that’s beyond me to just ‘load and play’.
I’ll consider the download method, but I shy away from that for a couple reasons. But this method I’m trying to figure out seems alot of trouble as well. Although I believe it can be done with a little work (and knowledge that I don’t quite have myself.)