Example of how to use the TVJS Player object

Hmm. This doesn't look right. Could you file a bug at bugreport.apple.com against tvOS SDK?

Include your syslogs and if you have a project (sounds like you do), add it too!

Do you any templates on stack prior to presenting the player?

Are you using local files with python?

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

If you want to view videos make sure they are linked to another server, it looks like video playback requires that the server supports, among other things, byte-range requests.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32518673/setting-up-apple-tv-video-javascript

Can't take the credit, but I'm glad I found it on SO. Was wondering why it was working for a while.

has anyone had any luck getting HLS assets to play throught the javascript handler? The below example works for mp4 files but kills the TVOS app when attempting to load valid HLS m3u8 manafests.

  
var player = new Player();
var playlist = new Playlist();
var mediaItem = new MediaItem("type", "video");
var mediaItem = new MediaItem("url", "http://<url>");
player.playlist = playlist;
player.playlist.push(mediaItem);
player.present();

It's a known issue, it crashes the sim https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/53063#53063 ( Have you tried .play() instead of .present() )

Thanks Alex for the link to the bug report, good thing my ATV Developer Kit will be here today! I did indeed also try play() but it ***** as well.

Sean

Confirming that calling a HLS using the above javascript code works fine when running on an ATV and not through the simulator