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RTMP streams are not functioning under Kodi 17 RC3, when I tried to download the inputstream addon, none was available for RTMP only the adaptive addon.
Any idea on how to enable RTMP streams under RC3?
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sadly nobody has stepped up and ported it to windows.
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as such, it wouldn't be hard task to get it running on windows, you just have to supply librtmp in some way then it should build just fine.
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Sad to here. This unfortunately is preventing me from upgrading to 17 as the legit IPTV service I use requires me to have rtmp.
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Small correction, rtmp streams can be played on Windows, however on Windows ffmpeg is used which from my understanding is not as feature rich which is possibly why you are having problems. It's also my understanding that the dev in this area is willing to look at these problems, however needs a publically available stream to replicate.
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2017-01-21, 01:04
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-21, 01:13 by ironic_monkey.)
i added the rtmp through ffmpeg support (which is used on all platforms unless the add-on is provided), and i also did the rtmp input stream add-on which uses librtmp. not to mention the fact that i originally added rtmp support to kodi (by porting the code from boxee), back in 2008. this was the code that later became librtmp. what am i missing?
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2017-01-21, 02:42
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-21, 02:49 by jjd-uk.)
My reply was directed to Skates as it was seemingly being implied that there was no rtmp support on Windows at all. Also the dev I was referring to is FernetMenta, since he's the Team video playback specialist, and I'm sure I've seen him ask on trac tickets for a means to replicate the issues seen using ffmpeg for rtmp, however I could be wrong on that.
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Btw spiff, I hope it didn't seem like I was doubting your knowledge in this area, I know full well you did inputstream.rtmp addon and the ffmpeg fallback where the addon is not used, if that's how it came across then I'm sorry.
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My point was that i am the dev that was/is active on this. There is no need for sample streams as such, the ffmpeg implementation is simply not complete (in ffmpeg, ffplay behaves just the same).
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That was the reason to have a sample stream so it could potentially also be fixed in ffmpeg itself. To make it more complete
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Apologies if i've misunderstood but If an example is needed then look at the wcbs addon from the official
Kodi repo (geo restricted to US). No episodes play on windows due to the lack of rtmp inputstream, but work on other devices...
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That is the point, it needs to be a freely available stream that is not geo-restricted.
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the sample streams are a web search for 'free rtmp streams'. iirc jwplayer for instance has a set of sample streams. i had no issues finding streams for testing when i worked on this last time.
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Do you still need a sample stream?
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I think that the unavailability of inputstream.rtmp for win32 penalises and forces a lot of users to remain stuck to Jarvis 16.1. A lot of legit IPTV streams as well as legit add-on like Filmon.pvr, for example, simply wont work anymore.
In my opinion, trying to fix/full implement ffmpeg is way harder than just supply spiff's librtmp in some way. Not to mention than spiff's work is a very very good work.
