[mythtv] BBC iPlayer Plugin release / MythStreams

[Richard Ablewhite]

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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