[Help needed] How to play streams with HTTP Basic Authentication? (1 Viewer)

[Anthrax]

Hey devs,

I'm hard at work with my new MyPlexMedia plugin at the moment and ran into the following problem:

1. PlexMediaServer uses HTTP basic authentication for stream requests
2. MediaPortals internal g_Player is absolutely capable of playing the plex stream types
3. Problem is when I try to play stream via "g_Player.PlayAudioStream(streamUrl)" it throws an error because plex needs authentication headers before sending the content over!
4. The quick fix was to use the same technique as the Trailers plugin: a local HttpProxy but this requires elevated privileges (start MediaPortal as administrator) as the HttpListener needs to be registered...

So the question is: Is there a way to override any of the BasePlayers to allow for HTTP authentication?

regards,
Anthrax

PS: I strumbled through /trunk/mediaportal/Core/Player/ for hours yesterday

 

[offbyone]

Does the HttpHeader have to be send on the same request as the request the codec sends? In that case you HAVE to use a local proxy or implement a directhshow source filter. If you can send it just in a standalone single request apart from the playback, you can override the Player to create a new one (as I did in OnlineVideos)

PS: I didn't know the MyTrailers plugin had a proxy as well You can check OnlineVideos sources, it also has a local proxy for issues like you describe.

 

[Anthrax]

AW: Re: [Help needed] How to play streams with HTTP Basic Authentication?

wow offbyone,

that was quick! Much appreciated.

well it seemed it did at least som time ago: VideoProxy.cs - mytrailers - a trailer plugin for MediaPortal - Google Project Hosting
I incorporated this method in MyPlexMedia but I hit the wall when I realized this requires admin privileges for MediaPortal in order to work.

I'll try your suggestions asap and even though I studied your code as well I just didn't have the time (and mental strength) to fix this before the release of 0.5.0 Alpha ;-)

Vielen Dank,
Anthrax