[mythtv-users] arte 7 within mythtv?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2012-09-05 20:20, schrieb Raymond Wagner:
> On 9/5/2012 13:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Is it possible to configure mythnetvision to provide the content from
>> Arte 7:
>>
>> http://videos.arte.tv
> 
> The quick and dirty solution, tell MythNetvision to use one of the RSS
> feeds listed here.
> 
> http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/meta/index--3188674--3188768.html
> 
> MNV will operate just fine as an RSS reader, assuming the links provided
> by the feed go directly to the video. That will open up the whole page
> in an internal browser. The flash player is configured to autoplay, but
> if you want any kind of control, you're going to need to use a mouse and
> keyboard.
> 
> If you want a bit of a cleaner solution, and are willing to spend a bit
> of time writing it, you can write a grabber script that reads the RSS
> feed, extracts the specific player information, and provides a custom
> webpage with nothing but the flash player. A more elaborate grabber
> would be one that provides javascript controls to hook MythTV's native
> controls into the flash player, but that is dependent on the flash
> player actually exposing such things in the first place. There's a nasty
> mess of one-liner, obfuscated javascript on that page, and something of
> that sort could be hidden in there, but a cursory run through didn't not
> find any API that would allow that kind of control.

Thanks a lot ... will try approach 1 asap ;-)

S