OnlineVideos 1.6.1.0 [2013/05/01] (2 Viewers)

[Entropente]

Hello!

I got Problems using some German sites in Online Videos:
RTL (www.rtlnow.de), SuperRTL (www.superrtlnow.de), VOX (www.voxnow.de), RTL2 (rtl2now.de)
All three stations belong to one company, the URL's look alike and they use the same CMS for their websites, so I think it's the same problem!

If I want to start a video, it loads and loads and loads... going up to 70% buffering, then falling down to 20%, then going up again... it will never finish. Pressing the back-button causes MediaPortal to hang up, so I've got to restart it by Task Manager.

I saw the problem the first time about two weeks ago. I updated the plugin, but that didn't solve the problem.
In a post from January 29, offbyone wrote RTL and VOX were broken, but then he wrote they would work again. I guess that was another problem with these sites.

I've tried to download some videos using Online Videos.
That worked fine, I got flv-files on my HDD. But they are not playable in any way. VLC, MPC-HC... nothing works.
So, I've tried to demux them using StaxRip.
(For those who don't know that, it's a GUI for a bunch of converting-tools)

Here's the StaxRip-log for the episode "Die Klassenfahrt" from series "Ritas Welt" from TV-station "RTL".

Spoiler

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Environment
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StaxRip version: 1.1.7.0
OS Name : Windows 7 Ultimate
OS Version : 6.1.7601.65536
OS Type : 64-bit
OS Culture : German (Germany)

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.NET
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v2.0.50727 : 2.0.50727.5420
v2.0.50727\1031 : 2.0.50727.5420
v3.0 : 3.0.30729.5420
v3.5 : 3.5.30729.5420
v3.5\1031 : 3.5.30729.5420
v4\Client : 4.0.30319
v4\Client\1031 : 4.0.30319
v4\Full : 4.0.30319
v4\Full\1031 : 4.0.30319

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Source file MediaInfo
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C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv

General
Complete name : C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv
Format : Flash Video
File size : 58.0 MiB

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@3.1
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 600 Kbps
Width : 384 pixels
Height : 288 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.217

Audio
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits


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Demux AAC using ffmpeg
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"C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Arbeit2\StaxRip_1.1.7.0_beta\Applications\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -i "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv" -y -acodec copy -vn "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt temp files\Die Klassenfahrt.m4a"

FFmpeg version SVN-r24707, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 6 2010 04:14:05 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libgsm --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libvpx --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --target-os=mingw32 --enable-avisynth --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --cc='ccache i686-mingw32-gcc' --enable-memalign-hack
libavutil 50.23. 0 / 50.23. 0
libavcore 0. 2. 0 / 0. 2. 0
libavcodec 52.84. 2 / 52.84. 2
libavformat 52.78. 0 / 52.78. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.27. 0 / 1.27. 0
libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
[flv @ 01cbd3d0] Could not find codec parameters (Video: h264)
[flv @ 01cbd3d0] Could not find codec parameters (Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 2 channels)
[flv @ 01cbd3d0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv: could not find codec parameters


Start: 09:14:15
End: 09:14:15
Duration: 00:00:00


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Index with ffmsindex
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C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv
"C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Arbeit2\StaxRip_1.1.7.0_beta\Applications\AviSynth plugins\ffms2\ffmsindex.exe" "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv" "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt temp files\Die Klassenfahrt.ffindex"

Indexing error: Couldn't find stream information


Start: 09:14:16
End: 09:14:16
Duration: 00:00:00


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Error opening source
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FFVideoSource: Couldn't find stream information
(C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt temp files\Die Klassenfahrt_Source.avs, line 2)

FFVideoSource("%source_file%", cachefile="%working_dir%%source_name%.ffindex")
AssumeFPS(25.000)
Crop(0,0, -Width % 8,-Height % 8)
ConvertToYV12()

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Index with ffmsindex
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C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv
"C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Arbeit2\StaxRip_1.1.7.0_beta\Applications\AviSynth plugins\ffms2\ffmsindex.exe" "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt.flv" "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Die Klassenfahrt temp files\Die Klassenfahrt.ffindex"

Indexing error: Couldn't find stream information


Start: 09:14:24
End: 09:14:25
Duration: 00:00:00

I could post logs from other series from RTL, SuperRTL, Vox... They really look alike, the only difference is the filename and kbps-rates!

Obviously, the flv-files don't have a correct index. And I'm not quite sure the file is big enough to be the complete episode. It should be 20 - 25 minutes...

I guess RTL splits the "streams" (h264, aac) and the index-information in 2 files to prevent exactly what we're doing: watching RTL without using the "special-flash-player-thing" on their website.

Is there a way to fix this problem?
I don't have any other ideas what I could do.

Thanks!

Entropente


PS: As you can guess, I'm German and my English is not as good as it should be. If it sounds "unfriendly" or something like this here or there, that wasn't my intention! If something is not clear what I tried to say, just ask, I will try to explain it better ;-)

 

[offbyone]

Well, on top of the first post of this thread is a link to the German Onlinevideos thread, where you can post in German - making it easier for you

When I last fixed the German RTL based sites, I was able to play their videos just fine, so I guess they recently changed this and this time it sounds pretty bad for us.

 

[FreakyJ]

Vox Now works fine here

 

[Holzi]

Can't confirm this too.
I did a quick test and VOX Now (mieten kaufen wohnen) and RTL Now (Wer wird Millionär) worked.

 

[offbyone]

I just tried RTL-Now -> Ritas World -> first clip and it showed the problem.

 

[Holzi]

Strange thing.. Wer wird Millionär from 24.2.2012 definitely works here while Ritas World doesn't. (Buffering endlessly)
So it seems not the whole page got changed.

 

[offbyone]

Or they just encoded that one badly?

 

[Entropente]

Really, Wer wird Millionär works!

What I remember what I tried: Ritas Welt, Alles Atze, Nikola, Die Camper, Die Schulermittler
Some of these series are available on RTL and SuperRTL, didn't make any difference for me.

 

[Holzi]

Or they just encoded that one badly?

So lets wait and see? =)

 

[offbyone]

The file should be available for one week only anyway I'll try to get some logs of a bad file and see if georgius can shed some light on it. (At least we should try not to freeze MP).