[mythtv] BBC iPlayer Plugin release / MythStreams

Simon Allcorn simon.allcorn at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 12:51:13 UTC 2008


I think there may be a road block for this, but I'm not sure what it is yet:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/iplayer_iphone_drm_loophole_closed/



On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Richard Ablewhite <
richard.ablewhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You could be right on the useragent front, I added it in when I was
> initially playing so it could prob be taken out. Will have a play.
>
> Ive got my own script (shamefully written in PHP) that parses the meta
> files, thats where I get the synopsis and stuff from. Will check out
> your perl one though, wanna move away from the php so thats cool.
>
> In the future I want to add in the image provided as well, got the url
> and stuff but need to do the code to add it to the GUI, also it would
> be a 5 min change to send the internal player the program title,
> description etc.
>
> Taking this a step forward, if you create a new MPEG2 encoder input
> into Myths backend then make a channel you can have it open local
> files, so if you write a stream out as MPEG2 and tune to the channel
> then you can watch your stream and myth treats it as a live tv
> program, with proper extending recording time, reliable skipping
> forwards and backwards, all good. Just need to find ways of
> controlling the recorder and tv channel etc...
>
> As the beeb are using IP address to work out if you in the UK im sure
> that anyone stateside could get the content through a UK based proxy
> server.... Ive a proxy in the US I use to watch TV shows on abc.com,
> fox.com etc. if anyone UK based wants access let me know. I tried to
> integrate these into myth, but all use silly proprietary tech
>
> Anyone stateside started ripping hulu.com apart yet? That integrated
> into Myth would be a winner...
>
> Rich
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Jerome Hettich <jerome at hettich.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > Richard Ablewhite wrote:
> >  > Just a quick note to say ive finished the first version of a plugin
> >  > for the BBC iPlayer. It uses the streams provided for the iPhone that
> >  > the beeb let loose last Fri. The plugin is based heavily on the Movie
> >  > Times plugin but will develop in time.
> >  >
> >  > Content is downloaded and transcoded in mencoder to an mpeg2 and then
> >  > that file played in myth. This is wasteful but I had problems getting
> >  > the streaming file to play directly in myth (and strangely enough
> >  > ffplayer/ffmpeg). Will look into it eventually.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  This looks interesting and will certainly be giving this a try thank
> you
> >  very much for sharing.
> >
> >  I had written a quick perl script which will download the mp4 stream
> the
> >  BBC have recently made available over http on their iPlayer site. As
> >  well as saving the file it also parses the meta info for the programme
> >  from the BBC iPlayer site and can (if you tell it to) insert a record
> >  into the database for mythvideo with the meta data and cover image etc.
> >
> >  "Making the unmissiable, unmissable" if you are prepared to watch
> >  480x272 videos :)
> >
> >  Available at:
> >  http://www.hettich.org.uk/jerome/MythTV/bbc_iplayer
> >  see --help for details
> >
> >  Haven't tested it much yet but I have downloaded a couple of programmes
> >  I forgot to set recording schedules for with it succesfully. Will only
> >  work in the UK though as I believe as BBC restrict access to the UK.
> >
> >  You say on your plugin you have to use a useragent containing IPhone
> but
> >  I seemed to find no user agent spoofing was required - just following
> >  the BBCs 302 redirect with the cookie they provide.
> >
> >  Jerome
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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