any support for F4M (HTTP Dynamic Streaming)? (1 Viewer)

[corporate_gadfly]

Hi there,

Is there any support for F4M files (newbie to this topic of F4M)? I have encountered a website www.ctvnews.ca which uses URL for a manifest.f4m. I am able to download and assemble all the fragments by using a PHP command-line tool.

Now, I do see some F4M code in OnlineVideos but I have no idea how to use it in a site util? Are there any other site utils which utilize F4M? I know Pluzz was at some point, but I think it is incomplete and/or broken.

So, if there was indeed support for F4M, is MPUrlSourceSplitter supposed to figure out which fragment to get when paused and or skipping, etc?

Thanks in advance.

 

[georgius]

You need latest MP Url Source Splitter from SVN (replace default installation). Everything you need is to specify url to manifest (f4m file). If you need specify cookies, referer or something other then use HttpUrl class.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Thanks georgius,

I copied the binaries to C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MPUrlSourceSplitter and then in my site util simply returned the URL to the f4m file (manifest URL). And it just worked! I need to test this on my regular HTPC as my dev box is a very low-powered win7 VM running on my laptop (mac os x).

When can we expect the F4M support in the main OnlineVideo distribution?

 

[georgius]

Great to hear that its working I think that new version will be released when MS HTTP Streaming (Silverlight) will be finished.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

I think there are still a few rough edges. At least a few of the video clips quit before their actual end. Perhaps not all the segments were downloaded. I will see if I can post some logs.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

here are some logs where a video quit before the actual end.

 

[georgius]

From logs it seems that for 30 seconds were not received any data, which cause playback stop. For sure it needs some investigation.

 

[georgius]

Did you have between 14:39:13 and 14:39:54 some internet connection problems? Because between these times no data arrived and after that in 200 ms came almost 1 MB of data. It's little bit strange.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

Nothing that I noticed from my end. Everything seemed normal.[DOUBLEPOST=1344719036][/DOUBLEPOST]Would it be possible for you to get my site utility "CTV Local News" so that you can experience this yourself? Hopefully, the category pages and the video listing pages are not geo-locked to Canada. Let me know if I should try anything else on my end.

 

[corporate_gadfly]

oh, some bad news. While watching another site with regular RTMP content and getMultipleVideoUrls (with MPUrlSourceSplitter from svn), I got the same weird interruption before the video ended. So, something else is up with svn code?