My small contribution I call - StreamTV (1 Viewer)

[Jim69]

Hi!

Valk, first of all, I want to thank you for this amazing plugin. The best streaming solution so far for MediaPortal/TV-Server.

Unfortunately, I have 3 issues that you may know how to fix them...

I have an HTPC (Vista Ultimate SP1 x86, Mediaportal 1.0 latest svn 03-22-2009, .Net Framework 3.5, VLC 0.9.8a) with TV-Server. And for client I use a Asus EeePC 901 (XP SP3 x86 nLited, VLC 0.9.8a).

1. My Internet Explorer 6 on EeePC doesn't open the .rss file. It just downloads the file and then I have to read it with notepad to copy the link of the channel I want to stream. I think I need a plugin for IE6 to read .rss files.

2. When I paste the link to VLC the channel opens correctly but suddenly my VLC closes when I try to enable deinterlace (eg. Bob). And if I don't enable deinterlace it closes after 1 minute or so.

3. And, when I close VLC (or it suddenly closes) the TV-Server on HTPC keeps timeshifting. So the card keeps busy all the time. I have to go to TV-Server Configuration and manually stop the timeshifting.

 

[Valk]

I'm not sure what the problem is sorry. All the reasons I can think of for a blank output should of given a error. I guess wait for the next version and try again (it is still a while off I haven't had time to work on it).

 

[Gorlist]

great plugin! normal TV streamsfine over the network to my Ubuntu Linux laptop - however I had to limit the ports and open accordingly on the Windows Firewall.

Quick tip if its not already been mentioned to list all channels within VideoLan

In VLC, go to Play List/Additional Sources and add Podcasts. Then Tools/Preferences, show settings to all and browse to Playlist/Services discovery on the left.

Check the Podcast box, and with the Services discovery list expanded, select Podcast and enter your RSS feed URL:

http://youripaddress:8080/TvServer/ChannelList.rss

Finially click on Playlist back on the left treemenu and check the "Play and stop" box.

Save, quit VLC, load and open your playlist and just click on Podcast, expand the TV server and you should have all your channels listed for easy viewing

 

[Valk]

I should mention only the http port and the first VLC port are used, the multiple ports was for a idea which I didn't implement / dumped. So you only need 2 ports

 

[Jim69]

great plugin! normal TV streamsfine over the network to my Ubuntu Linux laptop - however I had to limit the ports and open accordingly on the Windows Firewall.

Quick tip if its not already been mentioned to list all channels within VideoLan

In VLC, go to Play List/Additional Sources and add Podcasts. Then Tools/Preferences, show settings to all and browse to Playlist/Services discovery on the left.

Check the Podcast box, and with the Services discovery list expanded, select Podcast and enter your RSS feed URL:

http://youripaddress:8080/TvServer/ChannelList.rss

Finially click on Playlist back on the left treemenu and check the "Play and stop" box.

Save, quit VLC, load and open your playlist and just click on Podcast, expand the TV server and you should have all your channels listed for easy viewing

Gorlist, thanks!! Very very nice tip!!

I only have one more problem to make this plugin perfect!
When I close VLC (client side) the TV-Server Status (server side) is still timeshifting the channel that I was viewing on the client! How can I kill the process to make TV-Server Status idle again?

 

[Funky]

Great plugin Valk,

I am just wandering if someone has this working with a Networked Mediatank (NMT) like Popcorn Hour? If you have plz post solution.

I can manage to get live tv with manual aid of VLC on the TV-server (streaming through HTTP), what I did was to create a html file with this url
<a href="http://192.168.0.7:9999" vod>TV SERVER STREAM PORT 9999</a> it works quite well it's kind of manual since you have to change the channel on the TV-Server side, and there is no info on what shows are on.

So I tried to create a similar url to Valks plugin on the TV-server (ChannelList.RSS) but when I try this all I get is the RSS-file in plain text.

If I change to the Timeshift-url of Valks plugin the streaming starts on the TV-server and the NMT starts the "Buffering"-screen, but then nothing happens.

So Valk I think you have something very good going here. Humble idea for improvement would be filtering or grouping of channels.

Thx
Funky

 

[Valk]

great plugin! normal TV streamsfine over the network to my Ubuntu Linux laptop - however I had to limit the ports and open accordingly on the Windows Firewall.

Quick tip if its not already been mentioned to list all channels within VideoLan

In VLC, go to Play List/Additional Sources and add Podcasts. Then Tools/Preferences, show settings to all and browse to Playlist/Services discovery on the left.

Check the Podcast box, and with the Services discovery list expanded, select Podcast and enter your RSS feed URL:

http://youripaddress:8080/TvServer/ChannelList.rss

Finially click on Playlist back on the left treemenu and check the "Play and stop" box.

Save, quit VLC, load and open your playlist and just click on Podcast, expand the TV server and you should have all your channels listed for easy viewing

Gorlist, thanks!! Very very nice tip!!

I only have one more problem to make this plugin perfect!
When I close VLC (client side) the TV-Server Status (server side) is still timeshifting the channel that I was viewing on the client! How can I kill the process to make TV-Server Status idle again?

Sadly that is the problem with using VLC to stream at the moment, I can't get client information from VLC so I don't know when to kill the timeshifting. For that reason i'm re-making the plugin so I don't need VLC to stream the media, that way I can tell when to stop timeshifting

Great plugin Valk,

I am just wandering if someone has this working with a Networked Mediatank (NMT) like Popcorn Hour? If you have plz post solution.

I can manage to get live tv with manual aid of VLC on the TV-server (streaming through HTTP), what I did was to create a html file with this url
<a href="http://192.168.0.7:9999" vod>TV SERVER STREAM PORT 9999</a> it works quite well it's kind of manual since you have to change the channel on the TV-Server side, and there is no info on what shows are on.

So I tried to create a similar url to Valks plugin on the TV-server (ChannelList.RSS) but when I try this all I get is the RSS-file in plain text.

If I change to the Timeshift-url of Valks plugin the streaming starts on the TV-server and the NMT starts the "Buffering"-screen, but then nothing happens.

So Valk I think you have something very good going here. Humble idea for improvement would be filtering or grouping of channels.

Thx
Funky

Did you try and make a html file with links like the RSS feed has, eg. http://192.168.0.7:8080/TvServer/TimeShift.ts?ChannelId=1;
I don't have NMT to test on so I have no idea if that would work but i'd expect they can handle http redirects.

As for the grouping a few people have asked for it and if it doesn't make the next release i'll make sure its the first feature I add since it sounds like alot of people have a insane number of channels to pick from.

 

[Gorlist]

No problems Jim.

Just testament to how well MP Server and the plugin can work, yesterday was sitting over 550 yards away in another building, two routers and range extender and still had streaming TV working flawlessly on my laptop running Ubuntu linux

 

[Funky]

Valk,

I did try the timeshift-url before without success, and then this evening I tried and voila it works. The Url has to include a "vod"-tag, eg <a href="http://192.168.0.7:8080/TvServer/TimeShift.ts?ChannelId=7;" vod>SVT1</a>. Now I will try to get the RSS-feed to work on the NMT as well.

Once again many thanks for this brilliant plugin.

Funky

 

[Valk]

Interesting the vod part of the <a> tag. I didn't know about that, gona have to look into that thanks for mentioning it.