STV Player (UK Only - ITV Player Alternative!!)

[Xmantium]

Im not sure how anyone missed this one, i was trying to find feeds for ITV Player and stumbled on http://player.stv.tv - STV (Scottish TV) which is the Scottish version of ITV!!
ITV Player uses Silverlight but STV Player uses flash like iPlayer.

All the usual ITV programmed are there including X-Factor Full list - http://player.stv.tv/programmes/

To view all latest feeds - http://player.stv.tv/?rss

There are invidual feeds for catergories and programmes. At the time of writing it appears the catergory feeds are broken like http://player.stv.tv/categories/comedy/?rss
Ive cheked out some individual programme feeds and they seem to work fine.
The X-Factor - http://player.stv.tv/programmes/the-x-factor/?rss
Coronation Street - http://player.stv.tv/programmes/coronation-street/?rss
The Jonathan Ross Show - http://player.stv.tv/programmes/jonathan-ross-show/?rss

These url need a plugin for the feeds to work

[evanslee]

this looks to be a very worthy addition, nice find

[Xmantium]

I'm still trying to figure out how to pinpoint the video so a plugin can be made...
any help would be appreciated

[zip]

I looked at it, not trivial. They are making some RESTful calls to their service endpoint, one returns video id.

[Xmantium]

Any luck in building a plugin for this site zip?

The feeds are more friendly than iPlayer as there's individual feeds for each program

[zip]

no, busy with other thins ATM

You have better Luck with finding feeds from ps3

4od is http://ps3.channel4.com/
ITV is http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/ps3/

or De-compiling the iphone itvplayer ipa

or the android app myPlayer - Live TV / On Demand streaming

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501131

[Xmantium]

Is there any websites who have already collated the data of the feeds?

STV Player is a good alternative though

[Xmantium]

Anyone look at this one, was hoping a plugin would be ready before x factor ends

[zip]

looked again. It looks like they have the stream separated to chunks, each having a different URL - so this won't work with the current plugin API. Also the playback would be a bit rubbish (pause between the chunks where ads normally are).

[Xmantium]

thanks zip, any plans to support multi part video streams (damn adverts!) in future?

[zip]

Doubt it. Might be done with a new plugin system but it'd still show 4 videos instead of one.

[Xmantium]

I probably dont mind this, something is better than nothing