[REQUEST] Mediaset Video Plugin (Italian for Italy)?

**lcapriotti** · 2008-12-03 12:36

Anyone able to find the way to write a plugin for the italian mediaset video site?

I tried some basic tests but I was not able to have a working schema nor to receive any valid video streams Sad

Any help appreciated!

Temhil · 2008-12-03 16:08

Hi,

I looked very quickly to the website you have mentionned, and I think I found information which could be useful for writing your script.
Uing http header (add on firefox) I found those XML:
- Liste of video :
http://www.video.mediaset.it/vedianche/i...ttenimento
You can see entries like:

Code:

<video-summary id="scherziaparte/2007/07/20/108">

<image>bin/10.$plit/C_5_video_25284_stopframe.jpg</image>

<title>Senti chi parla</title>

<program>Scherzi a Parte</program>

<description>Scherzi a Parte</description>

<date>20/07/2007</date>

<visto>1489</visto>

<network-logo/>

</video-summary>

−

And one xml for a s[ecific video which includes video links:
http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/uomin...2F02%2F651

So if I use the entry above: scherziaparte/2007/07/20/108 and mix it with the video URL, I get the xml URL:
http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/scher...8312463129

Code:

<video id="scherziaparte/2007/07/20/108" code="25284">

<thumbnail>bin/10.$plit/C_5_video_25284_stopframe.jpg</thumbnail>

−

<urls>

<url type="wmv">scherziaparte/2007/07/Scherzi_GiadaDeblank2.wmv</url>

<url type="flv"/>

</urls>

<title>Senti chi parla</title>

<date>20/07/2007</date>

−

<description>

Un macchinario avveneristico per leggere il pensiero

</description>

−

<category ads="true" area="intrattenimento" classname="intrattenimento" id="scherziaparte/2007/scherzi">

<airtime/>

<program-logo>/bin/54.$plit/C_5_aggregazione_38_grafica_logo.gif</program-logo>

<program-link/>

<network-logo>/img/logo_network_canale5.png</network-logo>

</category>

<visto>1517</visto>

<rating stars="5" voti="6"/>

</video>

Here it is, the video URL is in it! Big Grin

I think it is a good starting point, I hope it help.

**lcapriotti** · 2008-12-03 20:22

maybe I got it wrong, but I can't stream the video with the URL built as instructed.

Did you try to open the video streams (wmv or flv)?

for example:

Code:

http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/scherziaparte/2007/07/Scherzi_GiadaDeblank2.wmv

is not is video stream!

Temhil · 2008-12-03 20:31

Yes you're right, I tried and it doesn't work.
You have to dig and look what are the request sent using http header for instance.
The issue could be also the use of cookie which return differene thing depending on what is defined in the cookie.
Sorry I cannot spent too much time on it right know, I will try to see if I can figure it out.

Temhil · 2008-12-03 20:36

Just olling the answer from the server on:
http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/scher...blank2.wmv

Code:

http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/scherziaparte/2007/07/Scherzi_GiadaDeblank2.wmv

GET /video/scherziaparte/2007/07/Scherzi_GiadaDeblank2.wmv HTTP/1.1

Host: www.video.mediaset.it

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 300

Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:33:40 GMT

Server: Apache

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Content-Length: 115

Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=1000

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Type: text/html

So it seems the URL is wrong, it could be the base path since in the XML we only have:
scherziaparte/2007/07/Scherzi_GiadaDeblank2.wmv

Perhaps http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/ is not valid for video path ...

**rwparris2** · 2008-12-03 23:36

if there is no FLV link use: mms://mediaset.wmod.llnwd.net/a2695/e1/[wmvurl]

ex. mms://mediaset.wmod.llnwd.net/a2695/e1/scherziaparte/2007/07/Scherzi_GiadaDeblank2.wmv

if there is a FLV link, it gets kinda weird. the base url is:
rtmp://217.169.112.25:80/vod/

but then the actual video url is different than what is listed on the XML page.
ex.
mediasetestero/2008/12/nipV_14_darlene.flv
mediaset_admediasetestero_2008_12_nipV_14_darlene.flv

have fun and good luck Smile

Temhil · 2008-12-04 06:31

@rwparris2
Well done Smile

, I wasn't able to find those damn URLs.
May I asked how you find it? It would help me to improved my investigation technique. Nothing came throw the header, how did you get those? Confused

@l.capriotti
I think you have the minimum for starting now, good luck! Big Grin

**rwparris2** · 2008-12-04 07:02

firebug for firefox & orbit downloader

**lcapriotti** · 2008-12-04 09:56

tks you all, much appreciated!

**rwparris2** · 2008-12-04 10:04

No problem.

And to be honest, I probably wouldn't have ever looked at this if it weren't for the challenge in the title

If you need anymore help, let us know.

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