My MPlayer

[misterd]

Can you please post some logs and system informations (MP version, MPlayer version, OS version etc.). At the moment I can only guess what is happening on your system.

MisterD

[starlight]

Hello misterD,
i have Windows XP MC SP3 (but same with SP2)
Mediaportal RC1 with latest SVN
gmplayer 1.0rc2
Logs will take until weekend.

peter

[kkendall]

Is it possible to use this plugin only for internetstreams, not other files?

The reason I ask this is because after much reading and tweaking I have most of my files working reasonaby in MP now, but can't watch internetstreams yet.
As I undersand it right now is that I have to install the MPlayer plugin together with the OnlineVideos plugin to be able to watch a big part of the available internetstreams. But I only want to use Mplayer for the internetstreams...not other files.

[jiih]

Hi misterD,

As I see the plugin supports the UDP streams. I would appreciate if you could provide some additional information on how to achieve this as I don't know where to insert the UDP address (udp://@x.x.x.x:5000) or the whole playlist of IP TV channels.

Thanks.

[misterd]

The easiest solution would be to put the playlist in one of the shares of the plugin or MP. Than you just have to activate the option "Treat playlists as folders" in GUI plugin configuration. Than you can select each channel from within the playlist.

MisterD

[jiih]

Hi misterD,

I've done exactly as you said. I added the playlist as share and checked the "Treat playlists as folders". I can see the channel list but when I select one of the channels I get the message window "The file you are attempting to play has an extension (.mplayer)...". I added screenshot. If afterwards the "Yes" button ispressed then all I see is black screen without audio/video. Do you have any idea how to overcome the problem. Running "mplayer.exe udp://@x.x.x.x:5000" from command line works fine though.

Thanks.

[fromaron]

Hi misterd,
Firstly thank you very much for your marvelous work. We really appreciate your efforts.
I hope you can help me to get my system configured correctly to play web stream from my ISP.
I am trying to play the channel using your plugin and at the moment I bassicaly stuck as no information can be found.
What happens is I can play the stream from the website using IE which starts up Media Player plugin. The stream plays fine no problems. When I right click on the actual Media Player window I can see in the properties link to the playing file with extension wmv.
The trouble is the link always changes, depending what program is shown. I think it is due to the program broadcaster, not my ISP. BTW it is NASA TV I am trying to watch.
Another my problem is I don't know how to create and add the playlist to one of the shares. I saw somewhere in a forum people talk about some pdf file, I couldn't find it for some reason.
Can you please give me some guidance here, I am an absolute noob when it comes to playlist creation and handling. I have no idea what playlist is and what format it has, windows always did it for me .

[kkendall]

Originally Posted by misterd

...put the playlist in one of the shares of the plugin or MP. Than you just have to activate the option "Treat playlists as folders" in GUI plugin configuration. Than you can select each channel from within the playlist.

MisterD

Hi Mr D,
Sorry for asking, but how can I make a playlist and save it?

And what you're saying is, save all the webadresses of the internetstreams in a playlist, select "Treat playlists as folders" in the configuration (where can I do that?) and when I now go to this playlist in MP (where?) I can play the streams?

And if I install this plugin, is Mplayer always used for all files? So also for dvb streams, dvd's and mkv's and avi's in My Videos?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Originally Posted by panni

By the way: for external subtitles you don't need the crappy MPlayer (don't look at its source, you'll vomit) - no offense to the author of this plugin.
You can just add DirectVobSub AutoVersion to your DirectShow filter list.

...yes...if you also want to turn off hardware accelleration you can...

[misterd]

Originally Posted by jiih

Hi misterD,

I've done exactly as you said. I added the playlist as share and checked the "Treat playlists as folders". I can see the channel list but when I select one of the channels I get the message window "The file you are attempting to play has an extension (.mplayer)...". I added screenshot. If afterwards the "Yes" button ispressed then all I see is black screen without audio/video. Do you have any idea how to overcome the problem. Running "mplayer.exe udp://@x.x.x.x:5000" from command line works fine though.

Thanks.

Please ensure that also the external player plugin is enabled. If it still doesn't work than try again and please post the mediaportal.log.

Originally Posted by kkendall

Hi Mr D,
Sorry for asking, but how can I make a playlist and save it?

And what you're saying is, save all the webadresses of the internetstreams in a playlist, select "Treat playlists as folders" in the configuration (where can I do that?) and when I now go to this playlist in MP (where?) I can play the streams?

And if I install this plugin, is Mplayer always used for all files? So also for dvb streams, dvd's and mkv's and avi's in My Videos?

Thanks in advance for your support.

I'm not an expert for creating playlists, but here you can find a description of one of the supported playlists file format: PLS (file format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
You just have to create a file like described there with an editor and store it in a folder that is defined as a share in MP or the plugin configuration.
The plugin configuration is located in MP's configuration program. There is also the option "Treat playlists as folders" You just have to be sure that both plugins of "My MPlayer" are enabled. The external player plugin and the gui plugin. The needed option is located in the gui plugin configuraiton.
If you just enable both plugins than MPlayer is only used in the gui plugin of "My MPlayer". MPlayer can't be used for RTSP streams, DVDs and some other formats in My Video. If you want to use a specific extension in My Video than you have to enable this extension in the configuration of the external player.

Originally Posted by fromaron

Hi misterd,
Firstly thank you very much for your marvelous work. We really appreciate your efforts.
I hope you can help me to get my system configured correctly to play web stream from my ISP.
I am trying to play the channel using your plugin and at the moment I bassicaly stuck as no information can be found.
What happens is I can play the stream from the website using IE which starts up Media Player plugin. The stream plays fine no problems. When I right click on the actual Media Player window I can see in the properties link to the playing file with extension wmv.
The trouble is the link always changes, depending what program is shown. I think it is due to the program broadcaster, not my ISP. BTW it is NASA TV I am trying to watch.
Another my problem is I don't know how to create and add the playlist to one of the shares. I saw somewhere in a forum people talk about some pdf file, I couldn't find it for some reason.
Can you please give me some guidance here, I am an absolute noob when it comes to playlist creation and handling. I have no idea what playlist is and what format it has, windows always did it for me .

If the url changes than you have to update the playlist everytime so you should find an url that is valid always.

I hope that I have answered all your questions.

MisterD

[jiih]

Hi misterD,

The external player is enabled and unfortunaltelly I am not able to get audio/video from the iptv stream. I attached the mediaportal.log file.

Thanks in advance.