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Ciao Chrisxx
Yes, your plugin is really helping me.. i just hate "traditional" tv and this is my first choice when i have some spear time!!
I keep on updating you, i hope this will be useful for your development. I'm using two pcs, one with Xp, the other with Ubuntu, so i can notice the differences...
WIN: I'm trying other players than WMP. With VLC perfect streaming, but i can't go forward, streaming stops. With Media Player Classic (K-Lite player), i can go forward some times (max 4-5 times in the same streaming), then if i try again the streaming stops. And moreover, sometimes the streaming is not "fluid", it stops, buffers and then restart (more or less it happens every 5-10 minutes). I'm trying other configurations on the preferences to find the best one.
UBUNTU: this is more diffucult, because i'm not a great linux expert, so any suggestion will be useful. I tryed with VLC.
First of all: I have to manually modify the setting.xml file, because from the GUI i can't see vlc path (i can only view paths under the current user). Once modified the xml, i go to plugins properties, choose "default" and then settings are applied. Boring but it works..
Then the surprise. Setting "vlc" as software and -f as additiona parameters, when i choose a video never happens. I enabled logging (i will send it to you, now i'm at work), and i find the entries where the external program is launched... i found this entries:
"vlc" -f %filename&
i copied this command, pasted in the shell and then suprise! vlc and the stream starts...
so maybe the command given by your plugin is not suited for linux?
Tonight i will post the log
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i'm a little late with linux test, because i have some problems with video card and resolution, so i reinstalled everything.... i remember why some years ago i tried linux and then come back to windows :-)
anyway... keeping on using your plugins under windows environment.
I installed last vlc version, and now buffering problems are solved. But i have a strange problem with audio. Every 30s-1m audio seems to stop for a while, then restart. Video continues playing correctly. Maybe sync problems? Do someone else noticed something like this?
With Media Player Classic i keep on having buffering problems, sometimes streaming stops and restart after rebuffering.
The best solution continues to be WMP, with fluid video and audio.
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Hi Chrisxx!
I'm glad to help you in this development... I have few days to help you, then i'll go on holiday (ieppaaaa) and I'll be back on september.
Tonight i will try version 0.3 and i will give you my feedback.
For the choose of the external player, under linux the manual configuration is a must, because browsing starts from /home folder, while "vlc" is in /root, so i can't reach it by browsing! so editing settings.xml is the only way to chose the player....
Did you read the other link i sended to you? In that page, as you can see for tvants, mms streams are sended to internal player and correctly streamed. So there is a way to play mms streams? Or maybe is not there the problem??
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Hi Zemazzia,
thanks for the support so far...
You have convinced me about the player selection setting .. I will change it to a simple text box in the next release so that everybody can type what they want in any platform.
Regarding the .strm files instead I can tell you that I've been using them but I don't think this feature will help bypassing the checks that Rai has in place to filter the content provided to users. Basically they check which kind of browser is requesting the video and if they don't like it they won't stream.
I'm not aware of any way to change the client identification (the famous user agent) via .strm file and that's why we need to use external player that are recognized (ex: media player) or that can set the user agent manually (ex: vlc).
If you find a way to do it via .strm file let me know.
Regards,
--ChrisXX
