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blip.tv

PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:29 pm
by DizTortion
Hi,

although blip.tv is partially supported out of the box, I had some problems with async audio (on my panasonic TV) or too fast video playback (on my PS3), missing thumbnails and the option to select resolution didn't work. So I built this plugin wich fixes all these problems (at least for me ;-)).

To add a video from a specific member of blip.tv enter an URL like:

http://blip.tv/{username}/rss

To install this plugin just copy the attached file to your serviio plugin directory.

For x86:
C:\Program Files\Serviio\plugins

For x64:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\plugins

Please let me know if it works for you.

Greetings
DizTortion

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:59 pm
by Major Tom
Thanks! Works fine on my Sony TV (it was also supposed to be supported out of the box but doesn't work properly).

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:17 am
by rrutkows
DizTortion wrote:Please let me know if it works for you.

It works great. Thanks! Blip videos are unplayable on Panasonic G20 unless your plugin is installed.

There is one minor issue, though. Only 8 videos are available from from http://blip.tv/redlettermedia/rss. Without the plugin all 20 are listed.

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:20 pm
by rrutkows
rrutkows wrote:There is one minor issue, though. Only 8 videos are available from from http://blip.tv/redlettermedia/rss. Without the plugin all 20 are listed.

The remaining ones are not added to library because of the following error:
  Code:
WARN  [FeedUpdaterThread] Failed to retrieve feed item information for . It might not play.
java.io.IOException: org.serviio.library.local.metadata.extractor.InvalidMediaFormatException: Unknown video file type.
   at org.serviio.library.online.metadata.FeedUpdaterThread.updateLazyLoadedProperties(FeedUpdaterThread.java:188)
   at org.serviio.library.online.metadata.FeedUpdaterThread.run(FeedUpdaterThread.java:93)
Caused by: org.serviio.library.local.metadata.extractor.InvalidMediaFormatException: Unknown video file type.
   at org.serviio.library.metadata.FFmpegMetadataRetriever.validateCodecsFound(FFmpegMetadataRetriever.java:318)
   at org.serviio.library.metadata.FFmpegMetadataRetriever.retrieveMetadata(FFmpegMetadataRetriever.java:68)
   at org.serviio.library.online.metadata.FeedUpdaterThread.updateLazyLoadedProperties(FeedUpdaterThread.java:169)
   ... 1 more

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:13 pm
by Phil.cdtpixel

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:32 pm
by DizTortion
Hello,

thank you for your feedback. It is very much appreciated.

I investigated the issue rrutkows was describing and found a minor bug in my code. The problem occurred for videos that don't provide the requested quality (configured in Serviio Console).

This specific issue should be fixed now. But it still doesn't accept all the videos from rrutkows feed so maybee I'll have to dig somewhat deeper.

Please try the updated version in the first thread post.

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:45 pm
by JerseyJoe123
Hi,

I'm running into a bit of a issue that I can't figure out. I have installed the latest blip.tv groovy plugin and have added this RSS feed to Serviio:

http://blip.tv/redlettermedia/rss

It works fine. However, when I add this feed:

http://blip.tv/blackboxtv/rss

I get the error:

java.io.IOException: Cannot parse resource from http://blip.tv/blackboxtv/rss. Message: Error during feed parsing, provided URL probably doesn't point to a valid RSS/Atom feed. Message: Invalid XML

What am I missing here? What is interesting is that when I plug the feed URLs into http://feedvalidator.org or http://validator.w3.org, neither of them validate successfully.

Ideas?

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:34 pm
by Cerberus
they would not validate that why the plugin is required to get the actual rss feed from the link. ;)

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:42 am
by JerseyJoe123
Understood. Do you get the same error with the link I'm having issues with? The one included in the first post works OK for me, and I do have the plugin installed

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:39 am
by DizTortion
I'm still visting from time to time :)

Are there any bugs left since my last update? Not that much feedback since then :) Please let me know

Re: blip.tv

PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:49 am
by debragon
Thanx so much! Works smoothly.