[Gamester17]

NBC Universal said on Wednesday it will allow personal Web sites to link to video snippets of NBC programs such as "Access Hollywood", underscoring the Internet as a growing destination for video entertainment. Independent Web site and blog owners can embed software widgets - small bits of code that function as dynamic applications when installed on a Web page - linked to text and video clips from its shows.

Read the entire story here (link)

NBC player link:
http://video.nbc.com/player.html?dlid=35348

Anyone up for coding the python script/scripts?

[Gamester17]

Other media companies including Viacom Inc., CBS Corp., and the New York Times Co. will also let Web enthusiasts post their programs or content.

Widgets based on television shows initially offered include "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" and "Dateline", as well as programming from NBC Sports, DotComedy.com and iVillage.com, NBC Universal said.

NBC's widget system is being supported by Clearspring Technologies.

Previously, NBC let users post some of its video shows such as "Saturday Night Live" and "Heroes" onto their own Web sites as part of an overall media industry move to seek new viewers wherever they spend time -- even if it is on a friend's blog.

To add a particular widget -- also sometimes called a "gadget" -- to a Web page, users can with a few clicks locate the HTML source code of the program and insert it into their own Web sites using standard Web publishing tools.

[Gamester17]

http://www.nbc.com/Video/

100% legal, watch full episodes of:
30 Rock
Andy Barker, PI
The Black Donnellys
Friday Night Lights
Heroes
Identity
Medium
Miss Universe 2007
Passions
Raines
Studio 60

...though you would have to implement some kind of proxy to fool the site into thinking you are located inside North America

[grote002]

NBC also uses rtmp to deliver the videos.
Does xbmc support that ?

[Gamester17]

hmm, RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol), I don't know, probebely not...
...does even an open source client (written in C or C++) exist for RTMP?

[mikko70]

Mail in here says:
http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/m...25567.html

"As far as I know, there is NO specification
whatsoever of RTMP anywhere. However, I would "imagine" that it's
similar to the remoting protocol.

Even if you do get as far as reverse engineering RTMP, you will run up
against a patented and proprietary audio codec (licensed by
Macromedia). IIRC, the video codec is "standards based", but I believe
it deviates (at least in the encoding, but perhaps not for decoding).
This is also licensed technology that Macromedia doesn't own and didn't
develop."

[mikko70]

maybe this could help?
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player

if some programmer could take look, what is "lots of features"
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles..._id=133868