2008-11-22, 19:05
Quote:having a few issues with the current script ... but did manage to discover that live streaming is currently not possible.
I'm not sure exactly what the issue is (it's something for frosty or an RTMP dev), but it's not something that the plugin can fix.
I've had a quick look at the live stream for BBC News, and the flash iplayer appears to connect and start playback in a different way. This isn't currently available in the XBMC RTMP code, so I doubt it'd work without changes there.
Gory technical details: The BBC player
* connects to an app named 'live' instead of 'ondemand' (eg. live?_fcs_vhost=cp52113.live.edgefcs.net&auth=daEdbaHbJapcgc4b6cGaAbKdecQdVa9avaR-bjkcGh-cCp-CnoEFnBpLDtFvyE&aifp=v001&slist=news_channel_1@s2677)
* sends an 'FCSubscribe' apparently to check if the stream is live/available
* receives an 'onFCSubscribe' from the server including some data I guess we might need
* sends 'play' for the stream, including the auth param (eg. news_channel_1@s2677?auth=daEdbaHbJapcgc4b6cGaAbKdecQdVa9avaR-bjkcGh-cCp-CnoEFnBpLDtFvyE&aifp=v001)