[mythtv-users] PATCH: enable mythweb streaming via .asx

[Dave Pearson]

Rich West wrote:
> Dave Pearson wrote:
>   
>> Another problem I have now found is that when I try and play a recording 
>> on a linux pc, none of the players I have so far tried will ask for a 
>> userid and password when attempting to play the file (Windows Media 
>> Player does), instead they crash. Is there a way of including a userid & 
>> password in the asx file?
>>     
>
> Hrmm... It wouldn't be something configurable.  You'd probably have to
> hardcode it in the url that gets generated within the asx file.  The
> code would look something like this:
>
> sub generate_asx
> {
>    my ($title, $subtitle, $filename) = @_;
>    my ($file) = "";
>   
>    $filename =~ s/\s/%20/g;
>   
>    $file = "<ASX version = \"3.0\"> 
> <TITLE>$title</TITLE>
>     <ENTRY>
>     <TITLE>$title - $subtitle</TITLE>
>     <AUTHOR>MythTV - MythWeb</AUTHOR>
>     <COPYRIGHT>GPL</COPYRIGHT>
>         <REF HREF =
> \"http://myusername:mypassword@" . $ENV{'HTTP_HOST'} . "/mythweb/" .
> $filename . "\" />
>     </ENTRY>
> </ASX>\n";
>    return ($file)
> }
>
> Essentially, you would have to pass the username and password as part of
> the referenced HREF.
>
> -Rich
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>   
Hmm,

That doesn't seem to work either, never mind - I normally use the mythtv 
frontend on linux pc's anyway.

Regards,
Dave