steveecrane wrote: > In terms of extracting the appropriate syntax to manually play a program > from within an LMS browser-based interface, when I find a broadcast on > the iPlayer website, for example this: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qckmd > > how do I go about extracting the correct syntax in order to play the > programme?
First you need an Episode playable URL - the above URL is a Series or Brand URL which points to playable episodes but cannot be used to convert into a playable URL. With the above program URL - clicking through to the available Episodes - there are two playable episode URLs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ckggk http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c7rqd The BBCiPlayer plugin will play DASH URLs which have suffix ".mpd" - so if you take the first URLs and insert the b01ckggk into the playlist.json URL as follows: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ckggk/playlist.json This will return JSON formatted data about the propgramme. Find the "vpid" value which in this case is b01ckdv0 and insert into the MTIS URL http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/vpid/b01ckdv0/mediaset/pc This will return XML formatted data of all the playable MPD URLs for the episode. Use one of the "http:" MPD urls in the "Iplayer://dash=http://"; to play the program. > I -have- used the HTML5 beta player ... but could see no material reason > to continue to do so, TBH... It may be easier to find MPD URL using the HTML5 player and a Chrome browser. If you play the program using a HTML5 player on Chrome or Firefox - open the developer console (e.g. right click "inspewct") and looking in the "Network" tab - you'll see the URLs being fetched. Restart the program and you should see the "MPD" URL being fetched. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
