2008-05-07, 16:44
Update: Please also have a look at the last post - there you can find a link to a current, working version!
Hi,
because Stage6 has been shut down, I looked for other possibilities to get high quality streaming content. Turns out Veoh hosts high quality content, but only wants to give it to their VeohTV users. No, that's not what we want.
What Veoh does is it divides the original avi, mov, etc... source into a lot of small files. Not I wrote a proxy that acts like a webserver. It listens for the requests and translates them to the small files veoh offers. It is possible to stream veoh's high quality files with this. It works okay on my PC. When I try to run it on the beloved XBox, it just crashes after buffering because of memory issues. I tried a lot to cut down memory usage, yet still can't get it to work. Could anyone help me with this? It would be so cool to finally have hq streaming back on the box without using another pc that acts as a proxy.
You can download the script (not a plugin yet!) here: http://theendofthelongestline.de/veohproxy.zip
To try it, you have to execute default.py as a script. Then go to the movies section and play the playlist in the zip. It connects to the local webserver at
http://localhost:8081/v1650118XbD3cFmX . The file part of the URL is the veoh ID. You can easily get this from the url of veoh videos.
It is only a virtual file, internally the script puts together all the file parts. Please help me debugging! Thanks a lot!
Unbehagen
Hi,
because Stage6 has been shut down, I looked for other possibilities to get high quality streaming content. Turns out Veoh hosts high quality content, but only wants to give it to their VeohTV users. No, that's not what we want.
What Veoh does is it divides the original avi, mov, etc... source into a lot of small files. Not I wrote a proxy that acts like a webserver. It listens for the requests and translates them to the small files veoh offers. It is possible to stream veoh's high quality files with this. It works okay on my PC. When I try to run it on the beloved XBox, it just crashes after buffering because of memory issues. I tried a lot to cut down memory usage, yet still can't get it to work. Could anyone help me with this? It would be so cool to finally have hq streaming back on the box without using another pc that acts as a proxy.
You can download the script (not a plugin yet!) here: http://theendofthelongestline.de/veohproxy.zip
To try it, you have to execute default.py as a script. Then go to the movies section and play the playlist in the zip. It connects to the local webserver at
http://localhost:8081/v1650118XbD3cFmX . The file part of the URL is the veoh ID. You can easily get this from the url of veoh videos.
It is only a virtual file, internally the script puts together all the file parts. Please help me debugging! Thanks a lot!
Unbehagen