[DVBM]

lo,

spent the afternoon updating a 6 month old script i made to play web streams coz the pages now require an identification so i had to take steps to get that web authentication out of the way..

cachedhttp does the trick beautifully but then launching the streams makes xbmc crash almost 9/10 times

actually i only managed to see a stream play only once, so my script is still working i guess..

i updated my xbmc to the latest t3ch release from december and i wanted to know if there were some serious changes with the way xbmc handles streams launched from python script and so on..

print('playing: '+url)
try:
self.player.play(url)
except:
print('media url error !')
printlasterror()

in cas you wonder self.player is set as follows :

self.player = xbmc.player()


after noticing those crashes i wrapped the play() command inside a try: but it keeps crashing so i guess the problem occurs at a higer level than the python script itself..

i'm not sure where i can get some debug info from xbmc itself..
in order to see what was actually going on when the stream starts, i traced the packets being transmitted to/from the xbox host on my router and i can actually see a few (15) packets being sent from the streaming server to the xbox and then it stops as soon as xbmc crashes..

any ideas what could go wrong ?

thx for updating me if i missed something important, it'll save me some time reading not so relevant stuff here and there..

.dvbm

[Asteron]

be careful you have found the address of the real stream. often times you can open a stream's url in notepad and see it is just a redirect to a wmv or something. keep following the links until you get to the real one.

[DVBM]

don't think it's an url problem, although i've never actually looked into that...

i've turned on debug and made a test

the first stream loads after a few seconds, then i've stopped it and tried another one that makes xbmc "crash"

here : http://sgteam.lilleforum.com/uploads/xbmc.log.zip

so basicaly it crashes after waiting for a few seconds for the stream buffer to get data and gets none..

don't know if it's a known bug, maybe i should report that in xbmc dev forum ?

anyways i don't think it has anything to do with my script and i can't really tell if it's python related or not..