[Diabolicus]

i have an mms url which i can play in xbmc, however i noticed that when its played in xbmc the video bitrate is much lower than when the same url is played on my pc.

how can i control the bitrate the streaming video is served?

[nomaanc]

can sum1 reply .....
maybe flash knows the creator of launchbrowser scripts because it also used mms streams with configurable bitrates

anyone know? cuz im guessin this question was prolly for the developement of an nba.com video script which i would greatly apprecait and i think others would to

[flash]

hi. for launchbrowser its one of the parameters you have to pass in the url to the server and the mms that gets returned will be at that rate. you dont control from the xbmc side. the server side does it. if you give me some examples then maybe i could help.

[Diabolicus]

this is what i've attempted to so far. using the rss feed url

http://broadband.nba.com/cc/video_rss.php

i am able to get the <link /> e.g.

"[url]http://broadband.nba.com/cc/playa.php?content=video&url=http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/tnt/courtside/nba_courtside_aldridge_lakers_50506.asx&rss=true&siteid=rss"[/url]

the url for the .asx is easily extracted, in this case

"[url]http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/tnt/courtside/nba_courtside_aldridge_lakers_50506.asx"[/url]

then by doing a "urllib2.urlopen" i resolve the url for the .asx in-order to get the mms url.

this is where i have the problem...

mms url is a multi-bitrate stream and when played in xbmc, it will always select the lowest stream. i've done some reading and it seems a hand shaking process occurs to determine the optimal bitrate for the client before it is played. i can't see anyway to control this.

ive attempted some mplayer.config changes but to no avail

p.s. i now feed the .asx url into my flashget client on my pc which will download the stream at its highest bitrate. once downloaded i can watch it on my xbmc.

[nomaanc]

strange....maybe ur connection is low-speed?

[Diabolicus]

strange....maybe ur connection is low-speed?

nah thats not it... i can watch it streaming on my pc at high bit rate with no problems...

[adityaag]

I just put together a plugin and I definitely remember there being a parameter in the URL for the bitrate of the stream. Here's an example of the mms url i had:
mms://208.100.xx.xx/mediawsx/9cdfe33a-aa3e-48ac-9cbd-41893c11f6be.wsx?WMContentBitrate=560000

Hope this helps... on a side note, do you know of a way to increase the cache size when streaming. I think it defaults to 4096kb but looking to boost this up if possible. Also, anyway to stop the stream from killing itself when it runs out of cache and instead try to buffer for a bit?

[f8lcoder]

Diabolicus,

If I'm reading this right you've actually gotten the .asx streams to play via the XBMC Media Player??

I've been having difficulties just getting them to stream (on the xbox) regardless of bit rate , but if you've managed a successfull .asx stream maybe you could share some code??

I've got alot of .asx stream addresses that I'd like to get working and could use the assist.

Cheers,

FC