blm14
Senior Member Posts: 120 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0 |
2011-01-30 22:14
Post: #1
I can't find a direct plugin, so I'm wondering if there's any way to watch al-jazeera english via XBMC?
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AddictedToMetal
Member Posts: 79 Joined: Dec 2009 Reputation: 0 |
2011-01-30 22:16
Post: #2
+1
Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 - Win7 (tinkering a *nix install) |
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blm14
Senior Member Posts: 120 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0 |
2011-01-30 22:34
Post: #3
BTW I am running XBMC Live, if that helps.
 But I also have some windows machines on my local network if the answer is that I have to create a stream from something else...
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TravellingGuy
Junior Member Posts: 30 Joined: Nov 2010 Reputation: 2 |
2011-01-30 23:23
Post: #4
blm14 Wrote:I can't find a direct plugin, so I'm wondering if there's any way to watch al-jazeera english via XBMC? I was using this url yesterday to stream the live feed, but today it isn't working! mms://media1.lsops.net/aljazeer_en I got that URL from Navi-X for XBMC. |
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hohead
Junior Member Posts: 12 Joined: Sep 2006 Reputation: 0 |
2011-01-31 01:53
Post: #5
I agree, this would be awesome. I found this link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156494 Which gives us this code: Code: rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer -It seems like we should be able to get this working as a plugin somehow? There does seem to be previous examples of people using RTMP with XBMC plugins: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=79384 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=76914 Unfortunately, I just don't have the skillset to do this myself. Anybody willing to help us out? |
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blm14
Senior Member Posts: 120 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0 |
2011-01-31 02:14
Post: #6
It's kind of beyond my abilities also (haven't even learned python yet!) but I would REALLY love to have this.
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gjlp
Senior Member Posts: 103 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0 Location: Charlotte, N,C. |
2011-01-31 06:40
Post: #7
To watch Al Jazeera English and other international news channels, you can always use Boxee -- it has a 'LiveNation' plugin that gives access to many such channels.
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jhsrennie
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2011-01-31 10:55
Post: #8
There are various ways you could do this. You need to start by writing a shell script (or batch file on Windows) with the command posted by hohead. Check that when you run the script it plays the stream (I tried it on Windows and it only plays for a few seconds then bombs out).
Then you just need to get XBMC to run the script. You could probably (I haven't tried it) do this most easily using Launcher or Executor. Alternatively you could write a simple script to do it (I probably have one lying around that could be adapted) or possibly configure an external player. JR |
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smpn
Junior Member Posts: 17 Joined: Apr 2010 Reputation: 0 |
2011-01-31 12:53
Post: #9
Bump... this would be an amazing way to follow the news in Tunisia and Egypt etc
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TravellingGuy
Junior Member Posts: 30 Joined: Nov 2010 Reputation: 2 |
2011-02-01 05:57
Post: #10
I did it!
I had posted a very lo-res mms:// link (see above) above that worked. However, I just spent an hour and got the" hi-res" stream that hohead posted above, and managed to get it to work with XBMC. Here's how: 1. Create a text file called "al-jazeera.strm" and paste this in it: Code: rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ playpath=aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId= pageURL=http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ app=aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId= swfUrl=http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf swfVfy=true live=true2. Save the file and put it somewhere where XBMC can see it. 3. In XBMC, go to Videos, make sure you are not in Library mode and browse to where your al-jazeera.strm file is. 4. Select it. Enjoy Al Jazeera live streaming in pretty damn nice quality! I did this with Dharma, on a Linux box. YMMV. |
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