[RELEASE] ZDF Mediathek Plugin - German Television

Gamester17 Wrote:What I think would be great is if a plugin (in library view mode) could be viewed from within a script, then the users could get the best of both worlds, the database convinence of a plugin but the custom GUI of a script, ...and those who do not like that custom GUI could just choose to use the plugin as a plain plugin (which can be used from any skin today and in the future without costumization to the script).

I suggested this in the plugin python directory services thread but I do not think that I got my point accross http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28031

PS! Maybe this discussion should be moved into that thread mentioned above though?

At the moment I am working on one script that can be placed in both the script folder and the plugin folder. It detects what it needs to be, a script or plugin.

However, what I don't get is how to get stuff in the library view from a plugin. Any suggestions on that?

Hello,
has anyone else a problem with the ZDF Mediathek Plugin?
I get the following error message:
"Wiedergabe der Playlist abgebrochen. Zu viele Einträge konnten nicht wiedergegeben werden."

My try to translate it:
"playback of the playlist cancelled. Too many entries couldnt be playbacked."

Is there any way to watch the ZDF live stream?

Works withh dharma?

i tried different plugins supporting the zdf mediathek, it looks like zdf changed something on how their site works. none of the plugins were able to stream the content

I've invested my weekend to script a plugin that can extract data from "ZDF-Mediathek". You found it here: http://blog.raptor2101.de/wp-content/upl...iathek.zip (need Dharma/Addonmanager...)

Pay attention this is a pre beta release just finished hacking. In the next weeks there will be some changes. I plan to support ARD an the third-programms (WDR, etc) as well. Additionally i want to put this an an repository (officially or my own...).Here is a detailed list of the planed features:

• choose-able streamtypes - for example choose between mp4 and asx or so...
• choose-able quality - actually it's hard-coded to "veryhigh"
• support for additional programms
• repository-source
  

And yes your guess was right, they change the way how the site works and how they deliver the files. I can't get XMBC neither VLC to play the mp4 files. (exapmle-stream ). A short google-tripp shows up that they deliver a "Flash-optimized" mp4-Container instead of "real" mp4/x264. So i have to rely on the Windows-Media-Streams

ooh nice work! thx!
i will test it out tonight and report back!

i also had a look at their site to see what got changed and found out that they switched to rtmp and as far as i know, rtmp is only added to XBMC's "DVDPlayer" video-player core, not to MPlayer? i might be wrong though

Celox Wrote:ooh nice work! thx!
i will test it out tonight and report back!

That would be nice...

Celox Wrote:rtmp is only added to XBMC's "DVDPlayer" video-player core, not to MPlayer? i might be wrong though

That might be true, the fact is, if a hand over the "link" to the player (item.playable) i get the Error-Message in the log, it's unplayable. If this is cause by the "flash-extended" mp4 - container (they use h234 as well as i know) or by the missing support for rtmp, it doesn't matter. But as i understand the thread, xbmc support rtmp.

raptor: nice! i miss plugins from german tv stations in xbmc, so it's good to hear someone is working on it.
please keep us updated!
thanks.

Ok i'am on the Move. It takes me more time than i assumed to understand how ARD is delivering data. Dig through a "Flash/Ajax only" is more complicate than simple parsing HTML ... nevertheless i'am trough and able to extract the data.

Additional i find a way to play rtms files in XBMC: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=45938
I don't check if this work's for ZDF but with ARD - Streams it works well..