Hmm.... I didn't like all references to the screen saver and I thought it may be a red herring. I rebooted and tried again. With settings set to RTSP I get the following errors:
ror: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 143-150: ordinal not in range(128)
17:37:31 T:6668 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
17:37:32 T:6676 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
17:37:32 T:6676 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
17:37:32 T:9132 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
17:37:34 T:1804 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
17:37:34 T:1804 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
17:37:34 T:1804 NOTICE: PHPSESSID: 66ensn2c69uanliv0glejudno6
17:37:36 T:8668 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
17:37:39 T:1396 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
17:37:39 T:1396 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
17:37:39 T:8536 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening:
17:37:39 T:8536 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:37:39 T:6612 NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
17:37:39 T:6612 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
17:37:39 T:6612 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening []
17:37:39 T:6612 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
17:37:39 T:6612 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
17:37:39 T:8536 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.ustvnow/?play=rtspting3]
17:37:39 T:4044 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
17:37:39 T:7528 NOTICE: 1Channel: Playback Stopped
17:37:39 T:7528 NOTICE: 1Channel: Service: Resetting...
17:37:39 T:8536 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
17:37:39 T:8536 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:37:39 T:8536 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
17:37:39 T:8536 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
With it set to RTMP I get this error:
17:39:30 T:2964 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
17:39:30 T:6824 NOTICE: Thread Jobworker start, auto delete: true
17:39:59 T:6852 NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
17:39:59 T:6852 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
17:39:59 T:8536 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening:
17:39:59 T:8536 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:39:59 T:8312 NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
17:39:59 T:8312 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
17:39:59 T:8312 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening []
17:39:59 T:8312 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
17:39:59 T:8312 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
17:39:59 T:8536 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.ustvnow/?play=rtspting3]
17:39:59 T:8536 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
17:39:59 T:8536 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):
ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:39:59 T:8536 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
17:39:59 T:8536 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
17:39:59 T:7528 NOTICE: 1Channel: Playback Stopped
17:39:59 T:7528 NOTICE: 1Channel: Service: Resetting...
17:40:00 T:4392 NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
Strange, right? Why is 1Channel even mentioned at all?