[infologique]

Hi,

I'm currently working to repair a video addon for XBMC (tou.tv) the website pass from RTMP protocol to HLS (.m3u8). XBMC Frodo suppose to play that protocol, but in fact, not really...

In my code, I call http://api.radio-canada.ca/validationMed...DbvyUyDWfp

and receive that url : http://cp143903-f.akamaihd.net/i/003/mp4...50e676cd1a

I call the serveur with : http://cp143903-f.akamaihd.net/i/003/mp4...-agent/1.1

First call in wireshark is very pretty and a cookie was sent : Cookie: hdntl=exp=1357279065~acl=%2fi%2f003%2fmp4%2fi%2f2012-12-31_22_00_00_infoman_0324_*~data=hdntl~hmac=a95508750431dc7db3b1a6973ee4f21d13e8e2d22cf7995055be5b1bbcfd206c\r\n

second call ...

http://cp143903-f.akamaihd.net/i/003/mp4...87Lw%3d%3d

and fail like that : HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden (text/html)

At this time, my user-agent is : User-Agent: Lavf53.32.100\r\n

and no more cookie....

Cookie is very important to play encoded m3u8 files ... anyone can help me please

Dany

[infologique]

Boxee 1.5.0 play all these .m3u8 without problem, bad ffmpeg integretion? Any solution?

[Memphiz]

IIRC this are issues which are solved in newer ffmpeg versions - but not sure.

[infologique]

for me, XBMC really need to support protected Apple HLS content, many website now use this to replace old RTMP content... Samsung TVs and Boxee box fully support that since a year XBMC 12.0 Final need to support too. no?

[Memphiz]

No. We update ffmpeg once in a release cycle which needs a couple of month until everything is settled. Frodo 12 is to near to a release to do something like that. Most of those stuff depends on ffmpeg (and not really on XBMC). So you will get what ffmpeg can but we are lacking behind about 8 month most of the time. You have to take that. (and if ffmpeg supports what you want atm it will be in the next release of XBMC 13 and in the nightlies at some point towards this release of course).

[infologique]

Thanks for replying,
I understand, I cross my fingers for next big release ...

[Ned Scott]

Jmarshal was telling me the other day that each time we release XBMC we do less custom patching to ffmpeg, so that one day it will be easier/faster to update that part of XBMC. I imagine that one day we could even have ffmpeg updates pushed out as simple bug fix releases.

[infologique]

You can improve that on XBMC 12.1 ? My Samsung TV, my android phone and boxee already play HLS natively (not just basic HLS like M3U8 container) support with encryption and cookies (I think XBMC problem is only with the cookie support issue)

Can you help us?

Dany