Amazon Prime Germany? (14 Viewers)

[Ministerk]

@Jason Pyke @Ministerk i might need help by a rtmp expert from the onlinevideos team. think i got all parameters parsed neede to built a rtmp url but it is not working. Any suggestions on who to contact from the onlinevideos team ?

Got some super ugly hacky code (based on the stuff the kodi plugin does), that does create a rtmp url instead of starting the browser host, but the rtmp connect fails after some steps.

Code is here:
https://github.com/JSurf/mediaportal-onlinevideos/tree/nobrowser

I'm no expert on rtmp at all (I don't think any of my sites still use any). What's is your error message? Attach the OnlineVideos.log and mpurlsourcesplitter.log, someone more knowledgeable might get something out of them... I didn't see any problems with your code though (can't try it, living in Sweden and only read it on github).

What you could do is to use fiddler or wireshark when using the kodi plugin to see how the urls are constructed when it works. Create a new site util that only implements the getVideoUrls method and see if you can get the "sniffed" video to work.

Edit: getVideoList is the method to implement...

 

[JSurf]

It was enough to compare the parameters with the kodi plugin i had some small differences that needed to be tweaked. just started a rtmp url in Mediaportal.
Code is on github but should be considered unstable/tech preview so i wont provide binaries now, i only play one quality, the parsing of needed tokens sometimes does not work (need the video 2-3 times before it starts)

 

[Ministerk]

If I understand the kodi-code correctly, not all titles are available in rtmp, one suggestion could be a "prefer rtmp" setting to the site(s) and when rtmp available set Settings.Player = PlayerType.Internal and otherwise Settings.Player = PlayerType.Browser

 

[JSurf]

From my understanding all videos should have rtmp support but not always in all qualities, kodi just tries to switch the user settings to flash if set to silverlight

Config swiching sounds good, the Browser solution still has its benefits:
- Automatic quality switching based on bandwidth
- Keep silverlight player as the default player, the switching is a global setting, so once set to flash all browsers will use that setting until changed back which might be bad for people who do mostly browser watching and only sometimes watch over mediaportal.

 

[nolimitek]

Hi @ all

Tested it and works great.
But one problem . I start a movie all is fine. But when i stop the movie i come to the amazon website from the movie but come not back to mediaportal
My remote is a mce . Tested it with a keyboard ... Esc and i come back. But not with the mce remote which most people have here .....

regards Chris

 

[JSurf]

I have updated the "nobrowser" branch, its working already pretty stable for me.

 

[doskabouter]

In my view, rtmp is preferred, it gives you more control (seeking to a time-position, recording the video, use of native player (for subtitles etc), no focus issues) So if it's possible to get an rtmp url of a video, it could be worthwile

just my 2 cents

 

[JSurf]

Here is a test build with rtmp support, works pretty good for me! You might need to edit ProgramData\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\OnlineVideoSites.xml and remove the player="Browser" tag manually from the amazon site definition

Edit:
You also have to manually change your amazon settings to "flash" in the amazon website.
The german URL is: https://www.amazon.de/gp/video/settings?ie=UTF8&ref_=sv_atv_5&

 

[mansoniac]

Here is a test build with rtmp support, works pretty good for me! You might need to edit ProgramData\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\OnlineVideoSites.xml and remove the player="Browser" tag manually from the amazon site definition

Do i also have to change the preferred player (flash/silverlight) in Amazon website?

 

[JSurf]

Oh sorry, yes you have to manually change your amazon settings to "flash" in the amazon website.