BBC iPlayer Plugin (3 Viewers)

[unitygain]

boxee have it all incorporated into their programme great bbc iplayer interface to ...although thats all they really have going to ber honest ... well personally for me , its only in alpha i spose but the don't like the skin and thats a big selling point for me

 

[Mew]

Hi adam_purkis

i know it seems like this can't be done, but just to put another request on it if it ever becomes possible i'd use it!! thx

I think it can be done as it has been done in C# for Vista Media Center (see TunerFree MCE.)

In fact if you look at the website, the plugin appears to be BBC iPlayer, Channel 4 Watch Online, ITV Player, Five Demand and HULU all rolled into one interface with background images.

As with many requests, it requires a C# developer (I assume based in the UK due to iPlayer restrictions) who wishes to use a lot of their spare time (and has an interest in) developing a MediaPortal version of the plugin.

Mew

 

[wonkyd]

Hi adam_purkis

i know it seems like this can't be done, but just to put another request on it if it ever becomes possible i'd use it!! thx

I think it can be done as it has been done in C# for Vista Media Center (see TunerFree MCE.)

In fact if you look at the website, the plugin appears to be BBC iPlayer, Channel 4 Watch Online, ITV Player, Five Demand and HULU all rolled into one interface with background images.

As with many requests, it requires a C# developer (I assume based in the UK due to iPlayer restrictions) who wishes to use a lot of their spare time (and has an interest in) developing a MediaPortal version of the plugin.

Mew

It's all open source too SourceForge.net: TunerFree MCE

 

[adam_purkis]

unfortunatly i cant help in that area as i have absolutly zero programming knowledge

 

[FoxForceFive]

If the Boxee team have managed it's obviously possible, so I'd assume it's only a matter of time before someone adapts their code to work for MP.

 

[adam_purkis]

tunerfreemce looks pretty good, unfortunatly dont have the skills to port that to mediaportal

 

[Simon_6162]

Hi all

I hadn't seen tunerFree till I saw this post, but I was thinking of hacking together a solution using mplayer, with get_iplayer. I think it should be fairly simple to use get_iplayer, to list all available shows via the myth xml file and then use it to download a show to a temp file that can then be played whilst downloading with mplayer. I'll try with the default medial portal player, but I'm not hopeful, but I know mplayer will work this way. Additionally the high quality flash files can also be streamed.

I've done a fair amount of programming but never touched C#, so if anyone else wants to try I'm more than happy to sit out, otherwise I'll make a start in a week or two after I move.

let me know if any one can see why this wouldn't work, or a neater solution.

Simon

 

[grandalf]

I seem to recollect seeing a plugin listed for GBPVR. Not sure how it works though.

 

[happyf1sh]

So,

I have started to look at this as a project as well as Simon_6162, but as I haven't ever programmed in anger this may take a while. Actually this project is just an excuse to learn some useful programming instead of just scripts.

So far I have hacked around with TunerFree and now a have a naff/basic plugin that can collect the latest program data at the push of a button. It seems that is the easy bit.

Now the UI bit.
The interface for Tunerfree is in MCML - so I have to kinda learn a bit about that before I can convert. If anyone knows any cheats/pointers re: porting MCML stuff to mediaportal UI then that would be helpful.

Anyway, I'll pop back up in a couple of weeks if I get any further along.

Laters

 

[adam_purkis]

So,

I have started to look at this as a project as well as Simon_6162, but as I haven't ever programmed in anger this may take a while. Actually this project is just an excuse to learn some useful programming instead of just scripts.

So far I have hacked around with TunerFree and now a have a naff/basic plugin that can collect the latest program data at the push of a button. It seems that is the easy bit.

Now the UI bit.
The interface for Tunerfree is in MCML - so I have to kinda learn a bit about that before I can convert. If anyone knows any cheats/pointers re: porting MCML stuff to mediaportal UI then that would be helpful.

Anyway, I'll pop back up in a couple of weeks if I get any further along.

Laters

sounds like a positive start! good luck with everything, looking forward to see how it goes. can't help you though sorry