[sarbes]

Just out of curiosity: how do you do the debugging (or how do you understand what's wrong)? I tried yesterday: the final strings passed to xbmc looked fine but did not work. Do you have some other tool to test out rtmp urls?

It was quite easy actually. First of all, I played a stream in a browser and captured it with rtmpsrv. After that, I tried to play it with XBMC, also with rtmpsrv running. The output almost looked the same, but the playpath was different.


XBMC (not working):

Code:

mp4:77154/flash/2011/beachvolleyball/CEV/Continental-Cup/M_NED-DEN_Final/110911_cc_Boersma_Spijkers_NED_Soderberg_Hoyer_DEN_high

rtmpsrv:

Code:

77154/flash/2011/beachvolleyball/CEV/Continental-Cup/M_NED-DEN_Final/110911_cc_Boersma_Spijkers_NED_Soderberg_Hoyer_DEN_high

The "mp4:" was clearly out of place. But it is necessary for almost every other stream:

XBMC (working stream, same as in rtmpsrv):

Code:

mp4:77154/flash/2012/laliga/120514_laliga_rd38_ger_high.mp4

This behavior was hard coded in my Addon (and I'm sure it is also in the flash file). All I had to do now was to add an detection if the url ends with ".mp4":

Code:

if '.mp4' in stream:
    playpath = ' playpath=mp4:'+stream
else:
    playpath = ' playpath='+stream

I use only a few tools besides rtmpdump, mainly Firebug (very nice Firefox-Addon) and Wireshark (if rtmpsrv/rtmpsuck fails).