Serviio

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:40 pm**

Hi All,

I am new to both Serviio and Groovy. So please bear with me if I ask stupid questions.
I have gone through, Serviio Online Resource Plugin Implementation Guide.

I am looking to write a plugin for, http://freeasia.tv/index.html

I have managed to grab the channel list and the channel url.
One of the channel source text looks like this,

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<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-35508473-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'freeasia.tv']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

</script>
</head>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://freeasia.tv/freetv/silverlight.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://freeasia.tv/freetv/wmvplayer.js"></script>
<div id="dsplayer"></div>
<h3><a href="/index.html">Go back to channel list - Click here </a></h3>

<p>Requirements</p>
<p>*Install Silverlight Player - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/">Click Here</a></p>
<p>*Google Chrome Browser(recommended)</p>
<p>*High Speed Internet connection</p>

<script type="text/javascript">

var cnt = document.getElementById("dsplayer");
var src = "http://freeasia.tv/freetv/wmvplayer.xaml";
var cfg = {height:"430",width:"585",file:"mms://173.193.9.71:86/starvijaydigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/5/2012 4:26:17 PM&hash_value=huHVtPOTkfuVune0cNogHw==&validminutes=5",overstretch:"fit",showdigits:"false",autostart:"true",linkfromdisplay:"false",repeat:"true",volume:"100",start:"0",windowless:"true",logo:''};
var ply = new jeroenwijering.Player(cnt,src,cfg);
</script>

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The first question I have is, does Serviio support silverlight based pages?

Also, I tried finding the RTMP url through URL Snooper and rtmpsrv, as suggested in the guide, have been unsuccessful.
I suppose not having a basic understanding of streaming content doesn't help but I am willing to learn.

Even if you could suggest other plugin's that parse similar pages that will be great.

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:53 pm**

You can try to use Firefox FireBug / Chrome dev tools to monitor network activity. One of the requests will be for the content URL. Then you can check if you can build the URL from the data you have in the page. If not, search for another request (possibly XML or JSON) made beforehand.. it usually includes some kind of media description and possibly includes the stream URL or values needed to build it.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:03 pm**

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

So, Serviio does support Silverlight? And you think this page can be plugged in?

I use chrome, is there a specific extension that I can use grab the network activity?

I used Chrome's "Dev HTTP Client" it just gave the same information I have copied above.

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:26 pm**

In Chrome just press CTRL + SHITF + I .. and select Network tab

Silverlight .. not sure, depends if FFmpeg can decode it.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:01 am**

zip wrote:In Chrome just press CTRL + SHITF + I .. and select Network tab

Didn't know about Ctrl-Shift-I, I always use F12

mailxarun wrote:So, Serviio does support Silverlight? And you think this page can be plugged in?

Serviio doesn't support Silverlight itself. Silverlight is not a video stream nor a html page, it's a web application framework, which means you can build rich internet applications using Silverlight. This means that it's possible to build a video player in Silverlight, but that doesn't tell you where the stream is coming from. Everybody who uses Silverlight (or Flash, or HTML5) as a player, has to tell the player WHAT to play. You'll be looking for the WHAT...

Anyway, for the Tamil channels, it's pretty easy: you'll need to extract the URL from the HTML page. If you look at the source, you'll see the following near the bottom:

Code:: var cfg = {height:"430",width:"585",file:"mms://173.193.9.71:86/tbodigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012 10:47:59 AM&hash_value=52PSlpIeBfre9pzIRNWa1g==&validminutes=5",overstretch:"fit",showdigits:"false",autostart:"true",linkfromdisplay:"false",repeat:"true",volume:"100",start:"0",windowless:"true",logo:''};

It tells me the URL (starts with mms://), and that it's valid for 5 minutes (validminutes). So, let Serviio fetch this page in Groovy, find that URL using a regex, and return it. Also, when returning this URL, make sure you change mms:// to mmsh://, because ffmpeg doesn't understand mms://

For some other channels, you'll have to do a bit more, but they all seem to have the stream URL in plain sight

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:06 am**

r-win wrote: Also, when returning this URL, make sure you change mms:// to mmsh://, because ffmpeg doesn't understand mms://

Serviio should do that for you.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:11 am**

Hi r-win,

Thank you so much.

So the content URL that I need to be returning in this instance is,
"mmsh://173.193.9.71:86/tbodigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012 10:47:59 AM&hash_value=52PSlpIeBfre9pzIRNWa1g==&validminutes=5"
Is that right?

Is there a way to auto-refresh after 5 minutes? I suppose I could look into other plugins but not sure which one.

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:43 pm**

you can set expiry date on each item in the plugin. Look at the iPlayer plugin. That would imply the actual video item expires in 5 minutes though (and won't be available on the web any more). If it's just the particular URL (which might have timestamp sensitive data in it), you can just set expiresImmediately to true.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:09 pm**

Thanks zip.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:02 pm**

Hi Guys,

I just executed ffmpeg (Serviio ffmpeg) to check if the URL's work.

Code:: arun$ ./ffmpeg -i "mmsh://173.193.9.71:86/starvijaydigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012 2:55:49 PM&hash_value=bLfGQ6N/5I2/JsHsR+vKWA==&validminutes=5" ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on Jul 10 2012 22:12:54 with gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493) configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --bindir=/tmp/ffmpeg --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-pthreads --disable-mmx --extra-ldflags=-L/tmp/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/tmp/static/include --extra-libs=-lpolarssl libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100 libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100 libavformat 54. 15.102 / 54. 15.102 libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100 libavfilter 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100 libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100 [http @ 0xe3c020] HTTP error 400 Bad Request mmsh://173.193.9.71:86/starvijaydigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012 2:55:49 PM&hash_value=bLfGQ6N/5I2/JsHsR+vKWA==&validminutes=5: Input/output error

Does that mean I won't be able to plug this website?

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:50 pm**

Well, in this case it means you didn't encode the Url. Google that :-)

If it fails after you've done that, you might be out of luck. By the way, I'm also curious what happens if you set the minutes from 5 to an insanely high number :-)

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:09 pm**

Hi r-win,

Thanks for that. Here's the output.

Code:: arun$ ./ffmpeg -i "mmsh://173.193.9.71:86/starvijaydigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012%203:57:53%20PM&hash_value=pxUUjZfah/6MeQNXcPu7SA==&validminutes=5" ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on Jul 10 2012 22:12:54 with gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493) configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --bindir=/tmp/ffmpeg --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-pthreads --disable-mmx --extra-ldflags=-L/tmp/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/tmp/static/include --extra-libs=-lpolarssl libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100 libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100 libavformat 54. 15.102 / 54. 15.102 libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100 libavfilter 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100 libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100 [wmv3 @ 0x10b7800] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0 [asf @ 0x1086a00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereo Input #0, asf, from 'mmsh://173.193.9.71:86/starvijaydigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012%203:57:53%20PM&hash_value=pxUUjZfah/6MeQNXcPu7SA==&validminutes=5': Metadata: title : Vijay tv artist : Star TV Network copyright : Channellive.tv WMFSDKVersion : 11.0.5358.4827 WMFSDKNeeded : 0.0.0.0000 IsVBR : 0 Duration: N/A, start: 312614.437000, bitrate: 996 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 96 kb/s Stream #0:1(eng): Video: wmv3 (Main) (WMV3 / 0x33564D57), yuv420p, 720x576, 900 kb/s, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc At least one output file must be specified

Does Serviio support WMV3?
According to this wiki (http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=add_live_feeds) it's not supported. Am I out of luck?

Setting validminutes to anything other than 5 results in an input/output error.
I don't quite understand, if that means I can only stream it for 5 minutes. If that's the case I certainly don't understand how to auto-refresh.

Appreciate your help on this.

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:29 pm**

Hi Guys,

Just an update. I was able to add the mmsh URL in Serviio console as a live-stream and play it.

But after some time it does expire. Not exactly in 5 minutes.
I suppose 5 minutes is the amount of time the video is allowed to buffer and that's why the TV stream expires way after 5 mins.
That's just a wild guess though.

As I said earlier, a different value set as validminutes other than 5, throws an error.
As suggested by zip will look into the iPlayer plugin.
Does the iPlayer plugin show you how to auto-refresh the link?
Any help around auto-refresh is welcome.

I will still have to write the plugin to scrape the URL.

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:35 pm**

It'll autorefresh autmatically on the expiration date you provide. But I think setting expiresImmediately to true should do the trick instead.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:05 pm**

Hi zip,

Is expiresImmediately=true a value that should be set in the URL?
In that case will my URL looks like this?
"mmsh://173.193.9.71:86/starvijaydigitalstreams.tv?server_time=12/6/2012%203:57:53%20PM&hash_value=pxUUjZfah/6MeQNXcPu7SA==&validminutes=5&expiresImmediately=true"

Or is this a setting that's set in the Plugin so that the server knows to execute the plugin again, if it needs a refresh?

Sorry I am sounding more and more stupid as the thread progresses :lol:

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:02 pm**

did you read the plugin guide? It's one of the attributes you can set on the returned URL object (not the URL itself) returned from the plugin.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:01 pm**

Hi,

Sorry, read the manual again. And it's very clear how to use expiresImmediately.

Have sorted it out and managed to get the plugin working. But there is an issue though.

The video does stutter and stop for a while, this happens both on the TV (Samsung D series) and in the VLC player.
For some reason the TV decides to skip to the next channel, when the pause is a bit more, whereas VLC player pauses for that much more and starts playing the video again.

Is there some sort of timeout setting? Can this be manipulated?

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:29 pm**

No. Can you play the mms in VLC without any interruptions? Do you have a recent FFMpeg version?

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:42 pm**

Hi zip,

VLC does have interruptions but it continues playing the same channel after a pause. Whereas on the TV it skips to the next available channel on the channel list.

Thanks,
Arun

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:46 pm**

Also, I only downloaded Serviio 3-4 days back, I assuming I have the latest FFMpeg version.

The version is
ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863

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