[mythtv-users] First YouTube and now TED failing

Jonatan Lindblad mythtv at comhem.se
Mon Nov 14 22:13:59 UTC 2016


Den 2016-10-04 kl. 10:59, skrev Robin Gilks:
>
>> Den 2016-09-24 kl. 07:48, skrev Robin Gilks:
>>> I'm not having a lot of luck with MythTV at the moment!!
>>
>> :(
>>
>>> I know that YouTube has not worked for some months - in fact I'm sure
>>> I've
>>> never seen it work in 0.28 - but now Ted Talks don't play either. Both
>>> work fine in any browser I try so is it the MythBrowser plugin that is
>>> too
>>> out of date to handle this streaming stuff now?
>>
>> YouTube works just fine here.  Maybe you are missing the gstreamer
>> packages (probably gstreamer1.0-plugins-good and gstreamer1.0-libav)?
>>
>>> I get the error
>>> "Can't start playback"
>>> "TV Player"
>>> "Failed to open stream (-130794744)"
>>>
>>> TED was OK a week ago but I guess that doesn't mean a lot :(
>>
>> It appears that TED is now using https:// and mythfrontend did not allow
>> you to play back such streams.  That does not explain the error messages
>> you get though since they come from actually trying to open the stream.
>> For which video (title & URL) do you get that, and when did you refresh
>> the list of videos?

Perhaps you missed my question above?

>> I have pushed changes to the master and fixes/0.28 branches that allow
>> mythfrontend to play back videos streamed over https://.  Hopefully you
>> will get it to work with that.
>>
>
> Your changes have now filtered through to Mythbuntu (I've checked that the
> change is there by using 'strings' and comparing with the old binary) but
> still no luck with either the search or RSS feeds on TED.

The TED search function is broken as far as I know.  I haven't looked into it so patches are welcome.

-- 
Jonatan


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