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+--- Thread: XBMC support pplive.com? (/showthread.php?tid=14475)
- hibaby - 2005-08-01
i use pplive(p2p live tv) to stream in my pc,and it generate a temporary media links which can be buffered but can't be played,it halt and display that the stream is mpeg ps.
can mplayer support this format?
- new0rder - 2005-08-12
wow pplive stuff to xbmc would be nice lots channels
more info here
http://www5.pplive.com/english/index.shtml
- carlito - 2005-08-14
i've got coolstreaming to work in that way but the pplive quality is way superior to coolstreaming at the moment.
guess we're stuck till the format is supported...has anyone tried with the latest release of xbmc?
(window$ media player lists pplive format as: video-windows media video 9, audio-windows media audio 940 kbps, 32 khz, stereo (a/v) 1-pass cbr)
if pplive streaming was working then it would probably be the best "drop dead amazing" feature i have seen in all the years since xbmp/xbmc started!!!!!
- elupus - 2005-08-14
yes... thou windows media isn't mpeg ps..
i tried it with mplayer on windows, and it does the same weird thing.. caches up to about 16% then just either shutsdown or stall.. no idea what's going on.
- elupus - 2005-08-14
okey, it can't detect what demuxer it should use.. something weird with the stream it generates
- bluenose247 - 2005-08-15
hi all.
i've been using pplive to watch streams on my pc but i'm having trouble getting it to stream to the xbox. the streams i watch are in .asf and i'm trying to use videolan to stream them to the xbox but videolan wont play them (not valid file). i only use pplive to watch football so i was wondering if there was a way of capturing the stream and then convert and stream to xbmc on the fly(i think this is what videolan does) without to much time delay?
ps:newbie here so go easy on me if i'm writing rubbish
pps:xbmc rocks:kickass:
- carlito - 2005-08-15
bluenose247, some programs (including mplayer) cannot play the output of pplive...this is the whole problem.
anyone read chinese? theres a bit in the pplive faq that talks about 127.0.0.1: 3015, but i the google translation below makes little sense to me...i might try to e-mail the developers!!
"(6) i think the pplive broadcast some programs are very good, wants to transcribe it the computer comes up, may?
answer: the user may use some flows media transcribing software, downloads this machine 127.0.0.1: 3015. this method not passes through the test, does not guarantee effectively."
- bluenose247 - 2005-08-16
i've managed to get this working by using a program called getasfstream to record the stream for a minute then use ccxgui to stream it to xbmc and it plays ok its just a shame you cant fast forward or rewind it (be great for the football). all youve got to do then is delete the recording. its a bit long winded but it works for me.
ps: its looks a lot better on tv(shame about chinese commentry
)
- carlito - 2005-08-16
bluenose247...thats a great solution for the time being...works for me !(thought you said you were a newbie?)
cheers!!!!
- bluenose247 - 2005-08-16
no problem mate. i'm glad i could help :thumbsup:
- Dr Evil - 2005-08-20
hi there,
well done on getting pplive to work through the xbox, but could someone help me with the setup? i've got both the programs required, but can't get asfstream to actually record the stream, if i put the link in it just plays it, and never seems to record a file anywhere.
can someone help with this?
thanks very much.
- Dr Evil - 2005-08-21
just wanted to say, thanks - got this to work more or less. was being a dunce and assuming it could read pplive, but it couldn't just execute it - so finally got that i needed to paste the local media player file and get it to convert that.
still had a few problems/queries though.
1. the file would occasionally stop on the xbox; i'd then have to restart it and skip forward to the place where i was before it stopped. is there a workaround for this?
2. the picture quality was ok - but actually much better on the main menu sceen when it was presented as deinterlaced and smaller screen - can you manually force it to do this in a fresh screen (with no logos covering up parts of it?)
thanks
- rakkie - 2005-08-22
i haven't got it working directly but i noticed that the stream
on my machine was:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/pplive#######.asf
however it actually opens that port on all interfaces, just not localhost so you can access it remotely.
from another pc i was able to do this:
http://192.168.1.100:8080/
(replace the ip with the machine receiving the stream,
you can ignore the filename part... it doesn't care)
and was able to stream it.
xbmc was able to buffer and cache the stream correctly,
but didn't like the codecs and gave an 'mpeg: no sound error'
and died.
anyone got any ideas?
i'd prefer not to rip and retransmit the stream if possible.
cheers,
rak
- Dr Evil - 2005-08-22
(rakkie @ aug. 22 2005,03:31 Wrote:i haven't got it working directly but i noticed that the streambasically you have encountered the same problem as the people in this thread. pplive streams seem to be recorded in a format that xbmc can't read properly; therefore the work around bluenose found is required to get the stream working.
on my machine was:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/pplive#######.asf
however it actually opens that port on all interfaces, just not localhost so you can access it remotely.
from another pc i was able to do this:
http://192.168.1.100:8080/
(replace the ip with the machine receiving the stream,
you can ignore the filename part... it doesn't care)
and was able to stream it.
xbmc was able to buffer and cache the stream correctly,
but didn't like the codecs and gave an 'mpeg: no sound error'
and died.
anyone got any ideas?
i'd prefer not to rip and retransmit the stream if possible.
cheers,
rak
the method you mentioned does work fine for coolstreaming though.
- wozwebs - 2005-08-23
need to set this up for tonight when a match i want to see is going to be on pplive. i have set coolstreaming up and it works a treat and i wrongly assumed that pplive would be the same
looking at bluenose's thread it seems i need the following two pieces of software:
getasfstream & ccxgui
does anyone have links to these and once i have them how do i get xbmc to stream it?
for coolstreaming i created a .strm file with my ip address and uploaded it to the xbox and clicked on the file in 'my music'. works fine that way.
told the lads it will all be on later so got a few coming round and would obviously be better on the big tv downstairs rather than us all crowding round my 15" monitor