Online Sources Configurations

I am new to Serviio and have been fortunate in being able to connect the Windows 7 laptop hosting the service to connect with our new TCP60S30 television. The problem I am experiencing even after reading through forums and the wiki deals with successful setup of Online Sources for streaming web based video. At our school we webcast school events via http://livestream.com/3BN for those unable to attend in person.

Any suggestions on how I can find the appropriate source feed so this web stream can be viewed via Serviio? I have experimented with source type of "Live Stream" and source URL of rtmp://a.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/ playpath=cnn_uza swfUrl=http://www.rentadrone.tv/player.swf pageUrl=http://www.rentadrone.tv/cnn-live-stream/ tcUrl=rtmp://a.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/ in hope of learning the proper path structure. The source url provided is for CNN. When I am on the television and via DLNA I see Servio and find the CNN folder under "Online" but no stream feed appearing.

Any assistance on getting proper source url information will be greatly appreciated!! I am wanting to be able to have the school webcast stream made available on the new television in our school commons area.

[Illico]

Could you try in a terminal windows this command line :

ffmpeg.exe -i "<your rtmp path>"

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=howto_win_ffmpeg

Thank you for quickly responding. I did execute that command from the wiki for the url of http://livestream.com/3BN but it failed. Input/output error was displayed in red.

Then when I used the same command with rtmp://a.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/ playpath=cnn_uza swfUrl=http://www.rentadrone.tv/player.swf pageUrl=http://www.rentadrone.tv/cnn-live-stream/ tcUrl=rtmp://a.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/ as the url it failed stating "RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 1006p <unknown error> rtmp://a.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/: operation not permitted. I realize this entire strand is not a URL but wanted to test it in attempt to eliminate possibilities.

I have also ran URLsnooper2 to compile a list of URLs that might be one needed to establish a connection to our school streaming site of http://livestream.com/3BN. If someone can identify the information I would use in getting it setup as an online video feed please let me know and I will be glad to copy/paste the details into this post.

I will like to add that the computer I am using to run Serviio and provide streams is a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop with Core i5 processor, 4GB ram, and Windows 7 Pro 64bit.

To add another point, I can successfully stream downloaded videos from this laptop to the Panasonic TCP60S30 via Serviio just fine. Thus, the only problem I am having is getting the television to see the RSS video feeds or Livestream feeds in the Servio setup. Hopefully this provides further insight so someone can assist me in getting things streaming.

[jhb50]

There is nothing the matter with your CNN link. You just need to add live=1 to the end to identify it as a live stream.

Your "livestream" feed however is well locked up. They are using swf verification and the rtmp url cannot be identified. Your only choice is to watch it on the pc and use Serviio to stream your desktop to the TV.

@jhb50 Thank you for responding. I will make the adjustment as you recommended. As for streaming my laptop's desktop, I have been following this page on Serviio's wiki http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=stream_pc The problem I am getting is a blurry screen for video but do have audio. I have tested different settings in the batch file explained on that same wiki page ( I pasted it below too). The numbers I have been trying to adjust in hope of clearing up my desktop video stream deals with :dshow-caching which I set to 100000, fps was changed from 30 to 50 and have video bit rate set to 10000. Do I need to adjust the numbers differently so the video stream of desktop appears clearly compared to there being diagonal lines cutting through screen?

StreamDesktop.bat

@echo off

:This bat is used to stream the desktop with VLC using HTTP
:A corresponding player must be started using HTTP

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv dshow:// --sout=#transcode{venc=ffmpeg,vcodec=mp2v,vb=10000,fps=50,scale=0.5,width=1366,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8081} --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --ttl=1 --sout-keep :dshow-vdev=screen-capture-recorder :dshow-adev="Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)" :dshow-caching=10000

:Exit