OK. That really sounds promising. Maybe I could write a small plugin that
read a "listing" uri and either created fxd's on the fly, or just listed
avilable channel uri's in the same manner as the headlines plugin.
But I don't think I understand how to unix/linux-wise connect a stream to
the (coming) video-groups interface anyway :-)=
I see ther're more mails on this. I'll read further.
Thanks!
/Peter
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Från: Rob Shortt
Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skickat: 2003-12-03 16:32
Ämne: Re: [Freevo-devel] VIDEO_GROUPS question
Peter Svensson wrote:
> Hi! I've been looking around in some .py files trying to understand
how to
> use VIDEO_GROUPS and not coming up with much (not knowing python, or
having
> actually rtfm'ed the devel dox :).
That's ok, the code for this is pretty new and only documented by a few
examples in various source files. There is an important feature missing
(VideoGroup switching between channels) but when it is complete I will
provide some longer term docs on it. It is also not trivial to
configure multiple VideoGroups.
I will send a later email on how to configure VIDEO_GROUPS. This part
will probably change slightly and I hope that using an xml config file
will simplify the user's experience here.
> What I would like to do is this;
>
> Suppose I had a friend who had a lot of cable-channles, and a lot of
> bandwidth.
> This friend uses darwin, realmedia or whichever open source
alternative is
> out there.
>
> I write a small shell-script or dedicated client, which pipes a
certain uri
> into a named pipe (?) file thingamajig, which is then slurped up by
the
> VIDEO_GROUPS seting by pure magic.
So, you would like to assign Freevo channel names to video feeds
available on the network? Will each channel have its own uri?
Neverless, this is DEFINATELY a feature I want to add but right now
there is no 'web tv' type for a VideoGroup. It will be easy to add
though, or perhaps not even needed at that level to map a Freevo channel
name to a network available video stream.
> Is this even remotely possible, or should I stand in the corner for
five
> minutes?
Integrating network streams as channels is not possible at the moment
but look for it by the new year at least.
Having said that, it is currently possible to view network streams
through the video area of Freevo. You can do this by using fxd files to
tell mplayer what uri to play.
Here is an example from a friend's machine:
freevo:/media/Video/webTV# ls
bvovtv.fxd jctv.fxd jctv2.fxd miracle.fxd nasa.fxd streamtv.fxd
tbn.fxd
freevo:/media/Video/webTV# cat nasa.fxd
<freevo>
<movie title="NASA TV">
<video mplayer-options="-cache 1024 -playlist">
<file id="nasa">
/media/webTV/nasa
</file>
</video>
</movie>
</freevo>
freevo:/media/Video/webTV# cat /media/webTV/nasa
mms://38.201.67.167/HighSpeed
So if you have a webtv directory setup in your Freevo video area that
contains some fxd files you will have entries for each, "NASA TV" in
this case, and Freevo will play them. Sometimes they mess up and you
have to try them twice though.
Using an fxd file in this way is hackish though and I don't think it
uses Freevo's mplayer plugin's network play support either. Someone
could write a video webtv plugin similar to the webradio one as well. :)
-Rob
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