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    @doskabouter: I really would like to see videos from this website included: Click!

    It is from the guys from gamekings.tv, but it is a separate site, so it would be nice to see it as a standalone site in OnlineVideos!
     

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    Katsomo is added also!

    One catch though, playback is kinda awkward when using the internal player (MpUrlSourceSplitter isn't capable of playing M3u files (yet)).

    So you have 2 options: Either play with vlc player (default, probably requires some vlc parts to be installed), which gives the smoothest playback,
    or: change playertype in the config (probably easiest through opening onlinevideosites.xml in notepad, replace player="VLC" with player="WMP").
    That way you don't have to install anything, but playback is seriously degraded (hickups every 10 seconds or so)

    So, am I right in my understanding that if the stream is exposed as an m3u (as in my request here), it will not be presented correctly by creating a site xml, since anyone else that wanted to use the stream would have to configure the player globally to be VLC?

    I have the xml created, but currently it is skipping every 10s or so, as you've identified is "normal". This is when using the "Play" test button in the site creator - which spans a wmp with the video in it.

    Is it normal/possible that you'd use parameters to control how much is buffered (or gap, or similar) and get a smoother playback experience?
     

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    @doskabouter: I really would like to see videos from this website included: Click!



    It is from the guys from gamekings.tv, but it is a separate site, so it would be nice to see it as a standalone site in OnlineVideos!
    On my list

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    So, am I right in my understanding that if the stream is exposed as an m3u (as in my request here), it will not be presented correctly by creating a site xml, since anyone else that wanted to use the stream would have to configure the player globally to be VLC?



    I have the xml created, but currently it is skipping every 10s or so, as you've identified is "normal". This is when using the "Play" test button in the site creator - which spans a wmp with the video in it.



    Is it normal/possible that you'd use parameters to control how much is buffered (or gap, or similar) and get a smoother playback experience?


    I don't understand your link, probably the wrong one?
    And you don't have to create a sitexml, I already did that. The Play button defaults to wmp, but if you right-click it, you can copy the url, and paste it in your favourite viewer, so you can experiment a bit.
    Mind you, the only real solution is to kindly ask georgius if these m3u's are possible in the mpurlsourcesplitter

    And there are some buffering parameters present in the configuration, but these are global (i.e. used for all sites), and for me, the default values are quite sufficient
     

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