BBC iPlayer Plugin (8 Viewers)

[wonkyd]

Hi Happyf1sh,

I shall give this a test when I get home later and let you know how I get on.

Cheers

 

[ianc]

Stupid question -How do I install this?
Do I Just copy the files into the equivelant directories and install ForeFox?

I

 

[HappyTalk]

1) Hi I got the mp_iplayer to work but after a few seconds an ie 'failed download' error pops up though content continues streaming.

2) I then tried the iplayer2 one listed above but when clicking on a program it just gives a black screen and no content at all?

AFTER MUCH EXPERIMENTATION

1) When you get that error pop up, pressing the home button on your remote once (the button that takes you back to the mp root screen), will clear it. Pause = toggles playback on/off and volume works - this seems to be the most promising option at the moment. I'd like to fix it myself but spend all day coding as a job and have young kids (though I did dl the source, may look at it) so can't afford the time really.

2) Not sure about this plugin, did get it to work eventually it doesn't have the pretty graphic for each show like other plug and doesn't work with remote at all, so have to use keyboard so you may as well just use a normal web browser in first place. Unwatchable in full screen mode as all jerky (only mode you'd use on a dedicated setup), early days I guess. It does have a good listing of chans though and video looks to be much better quality.

Not sure what approach is being used, I wonder if filtering out all the irrelevant html off page just leaving player and injecting jscript to map key presses (via remote) to players button_clicks would be simplest approach.

 

[toigaroun]

Fair points most of them, but on the other hand happyf1sh said in his first/second post in this thread that he is not a programmer and that he is rather experimenting.

So being a programmer myself but unfortunately not motivated or available enough to write such useful piece of code the only thing I can say as a user of happyf1sh's plugin is thanks for the time you are giving and very good luck with your programming adventures.
(and I 'll be happy to help out if needed)

 

[bushbrother]

Just read this today ... might make a plugin a little easier if there are streams available designed for STB?

Freesat iPlayer for Autumn launch | Join Freesat

 

[EViS]

I read that today on the BBC News website as well. Here's hoping!

 

[revs]

Looks like we need that MHEG support in MediaPortal again if we want real support! What ever did happen to that?

mheg-dotnet - Project Hosting on Google Code

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...iew-digital-interactive-red-button-mheg-3118/

 

[wonkyd]

There was this side of the project too https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ital-interactive-red-button-mhegplugin-12856/

Looks like someone made one in C# that worked 90% on googlecode too http://code.google.com/p/openmheg/

XBMC have some good scrapers for iplayer and itvplayer by the looks of things [RELEASE] iPlayer (BBC Video/Music) Plugin - UK only! - XBMC Community Forum

MHEG & iPlayer... if we ever get both pigs might fly!

 

[steve walsh]

Unable to load DLL 'xpcom'

Hi,

Are the path's hardcoded in the plugin ?
My system (dual boot malarky) doesn't actually have a C:
The root is F:
Firefox 3.5.5 is installed in F:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox

My error is :
2009-11-17 07:26:18.234375 [ERROR][MPMain]: Unable to load the web browser plugin, verify that Mozilla XUL Runner is installed
2009-11-17 07:26:23.562500 [ERROR][2]: MediaPortal: Unhandled exception occured
2009-11-17 07:26:23.578125 [ERROR][2]: Exception ystem.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'xpcom': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
at Skybound.Gecko.nsACString.NS_CStringContainerFinish(nsACString container)
at Skybound.Gecko.nsACString.Dispose()
at Skybound.Gecko.nsACString.Finalize()
2009-11-17 07:26:23.578125 [ERROR][2]: Exception :Unable to load DLL 'xpcom': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
2009-11-17 07:26:23.578125 [ERROR][2]: site :Int32 NS_CStringContainerFinish(Skybound.Gecko.nsACString)
2009-11-17 07:26:23.578125 [ERROR][2]: source kybound.Gecko
2009-11-17 07:26:23.578125 [ERROR][2]: stacktrace: at Skybound.Gecko.nsACString.NS_CStringContainerFinish(nsACString container)
at Skybound.Gecko.nsACString.Dispose()
at Skybound.Gecko.nsACString.Finalize()


Thanks,
Steve

 

[wonkyd]

I've just being playing around with XBMC iPlayer plug in, works very very well. No dropping out to a webpage it scrapes the iplayer website for all the shows and then allows you to play/pause/rewind/fastforward it all through its interface.

I don't know what would be involved in getting this functionality in mediaportal, the XBMC guys seemed to have to impliment RTMP streaming Adobe - Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification. There was a thread here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ure-request-here-48/flash-rtmp-support-53865/ that someone had a go converting it to Mediaportal.

The XBMC plug in is all open source too xbmc-iplayerv2 - Project Hosting on Google Code

I have no idea when it comes to programming, just hope someone can peice it all together.