Online Content "There Are No Titles"

Thanks for the input. I had built my machine using Ubuntu JeOS and I gave up and did a reinstall using the full distribution. It works now!

It seems I was premature. While some of the files that previously did not show in my old installation now work, there are still files with the same error.

Ottomatic, how do I check if Flash is installed in a machine with no gui? Or alternatively, how do I install Flash?

[ottomatic]

hbradlow, see this link:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Restr ... mats/Flash

I have no idea if there is any problem installing on a headless box, or how to test it.

[ottomatic]

... and obviously if your machine is without gui, you may not be able to run the Ubuntu Software Center.

Instead, you enable restricted packages and then do:

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Ok, now I am getting desperate. I do have flash installed and ITV Player works. However for BBC iPlayer files, I get the same error message. The serviio log entry is below. I would really appreciate some help.


2012-11-22 18:49:04,964 WARN [FeedUpdaterThread] Failed to retrieve online item information for rtmp://bbcmedia.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/ app=a1414/e3?as=adobe-hmac-sha256&av=1&te=connect&mp=iplayerstream/secure_auth/800kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327394.mp4,iplayerstream/secure_auth/400kbps/b01p0cpj_1353327385.mp4,iplayerstream/secure_auth/1500kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327065.mp4,iplayerstream/secure_auth/480kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327393.mp4&et=1353577458&fmta-token=b1f3e25546386aae3eaab34b496af84d48319f6005072e167538277b8f4226ee tcUrl=rtmp://bbcmedia.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/a1414/e3?as=adobe-hmac-sha256&av=1&te=connect&mp=iplayerstream/secure_auth/800kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327394.mp4,iplayerstream/secure_auth/400kbps/b01p0cpj_1353327385.mp4,iplayerstream/secure_auth/1500kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327065.mp4,iplayerstream/secure_auth/480kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327393.mp4&et=1353577458&fmta-token=b1f3e25546386aae3eaab34b496af84d48319f6005072e167538277b8f4226ee playpath=mp4:iplayerstream/secure_auth/1500kbps/MP/b01p0cpj_1353327065.mp4 swfUrl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf swfVfy=1. 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.retrieveMetadata(FeedUpdaterThread.java:291)
at org.serviio.library.online.metadata.FeedUpdaterThread.retrieveTechnicalMetadata(FeedUpdaterThread.java:209)
at org.serviio.library.online.metadata.FeedUpdaterThread.run(FeedUpdaterThread.java:102)
Caused by: org.serviio.library.local.metadata.extractor.InvalidMediaFormatException: Unknown video file type.
at org.serviio.library.metadata.FFmpegMetadataRetriever.validateCodecsFound(FFmpegMetadataRetriever.java:382)
at org.serviio.library.metadata.FFmpegMetadataRetriever.retrieveMetadata(FFmpegMetadataRetriever.java:86)
at org.serviio.library.metadata.FFmpegMetadataRetriever.retrieveOnlineMetadata(FFmpegMetadataRetriever.java:124)
at org.serviio.library.online.metadata.FeedUpdaterThread.retrieveMetadata(FeedUpdaterThread.java:268)
... 2 more

[ottomatic]

That url doesn't work for me either.

Either the BBC plugin has a bug, or the content has geographic restrictions. Are you in the uk? Does other BBC material work?

[zip]

And what iPlayer feed URL are you using?

I don't think it is a region coding issue, because I can get ITV player to work.

I have tried a couple of BBC RSS feeds, neither of which work. Here are the URL's:
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/highlights/tv
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/drama/tv/list

[zip]

I don't think it is a region coding issue, because I can get ITV player to work.

But are you in UK? iPlayer definitely works only in UK.

Won't it work over a VPN?

[zip]

It should AFAIK. But obviously FFmpeg can't get the file info, so not sure what the problem is.