[solexalex]

no, you can't test it as you have to be french (or living in france), and your isp must be "free", and you have to be connected through their modem called 'freebox' and tv service activated. the freebox, streams tv channels through local network using rtsp transport stream.
the script i use, talk with the freebox for all the rtsp stuff, and redirect the datas of the tv stream on a http connection.

so, normally, adresse is :
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/201
and to get the stream through http, new url is :
http://ip.of.the.xbox:8083/201

note : if you are french and can get the tv freebox stream, so whatch out french xbmc forums (http://gueux-forum.net) there you will know everything about it

[solexalex]

i don't even want to mention this, but i will.

it may sound stupid, but could python have problems with proxies? can you enter the xbox's ip instead of 127.0.0.1.

if stupid i will delete.

hey ! no questions are stupid !! just poster may be stupid

noo ! i'm kidding !!

whatever ip adress : 192.168.0.3 or 127.0.0.1. none of those is working with python. any of those work just fine with all other methods

[viol8r]

the script i use, talk with the freebox for all the rtsp stuff, and redirect the datas of the tv stream on a http connection.

so, normally, adresse is :
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/201
and to get the stream through http, new url is :
http://ip.of.the.xbox:8083/201

the reason why i was interested in it was that i'm also trying to get a rtsp mpeg4 stream playing on the xbox, and the rtsp to http proxy sounds interesting. from what i can read from your post you are trying to get it to play a rtsp-stream directly (without looping it through vlc or something), right?

so if i understand your post correctly, you're trying to do the same thing (although on a french-only stream from a tv-box)?

[solexalex]

sure !
i've got my adsl-tv provider that enable us to catch tv on network trough rtsp. but the problem is that nobody seems to be able to compile mplayer with live555 library (wich enable mplayer to read rtsp stream)
so, i found a python script that process every rtsp dialog with the server and send back the data stream on a http transport.
this work like a charm, i can use urllib.urlopen(mystrem).read() to catch the data stream and save it on hdd. i can play it as well from 'my video' screen on xbmc using a strm file.
but the reason of this post is that i want to make my script more complete and enable to read a choosen channel directly from python. but this does not work.
anyway, i think you should be able to use this script for your convenience as well. just contact me directly (pm or mail or...) and i will send it to you as soon as possible. if the rtsp server is available on internet, i may test my script for you, just tell me what i need for testing.