Channel plugin (Updated 12-06-23)

[Twosheds]

I'm having trouble specifying a correct regexp to suit the plugin. I'm trying to extract 2 strings to concatenate as the name parameter, along with a url parameter. The problem appears to lie in the regexp used for the first part of the name. Whenever the first string contains a pair of square brackets e.g TVChannel [EN] then the name parameter is displayed as TVChannel and the second string appears to be ignored. If the first string doesn't contain a pair of square brackets then the first string is not truncated and the two strings are concatenated and displayed correctly.

I'm using the regexp >([^<]+)< to extract the first string. The '>' and '<' are the delimiters of the text string I want from the web page.

My parm line is parm,url,name to match the 3 regexp 'groups' in my 'matcher' spec.

Anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong ?

UPDATE
I've just had a look at the output on my Bravia TV and the Channel plugin is working perfectly. It appears that the problem lies with XBMC which I've been using to test it.

[Twosheds]

Mistaken post deleted

[SharkHunter]

Did it work for you or not?

[Twosheds]

Sharkhunter,
If you're talking to me then it's working in that I have now managed to add the kick-off times against each event and the station name to the protocol and bitrate. However the MyP2P web pages for a sport can be devided into more than one date so I'm trying to think of a way to adding the day/date to the kick-off time or using the day/date as a new folder level. I can't see a solution to either method. The simplest solution from my point of view might be if there was a way to tell the plugin not to sort the data so that it is presented in chronological order as per the website

[dushashi]

2.3 doesn't do it either. This is so weird. When I run the rtmpdump separately in the shell it does work and downloads the SVT stuff correctly.

Damn, this sucks

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[rtmpdump] INFO  20:04:01.932 Starting rtmpdump -o /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_downloader_out_1297883040799_41 -r "rtmpe://fl11.c90909.cdn.qbrick.com/90909/_definst_/kluster/20110214/PG-1136348-001A-ABBYSFLYINGFA-01-mp4-e-v1.mp4"
[mencoder] INFO  20:04:01.933 Starting mencoder -o /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_transcoder_out_1297883040799_41 -msglevel all=2 -quiet -prefer-ipv4 -oac lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=dvd -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4096:threads=1:acodec=ac3:abitrate=128 -ofps 25 -cache 16384 -vf harddup /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_downloader_out_1297883040799_41
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:01.966 RTMPDump v2.3
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:01.967 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
[mencoder] INFO  20:04:01.975 Reading pipe: /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_transcoder_out_1297883040799_41
[mencoder] DEBUG 20:04:01.975 Opening file /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_transcoder_out_1297883040799_41 for reading...
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:01.987 WARNING: Unknown protocol!
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:01.987
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:01.993 Connecting ...
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:02.040 WARNING: HandShake: client signature does not match!
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:02.040 INFO: Connected...
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:02.054 ERROR: rtmp server sent error
[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:02.054 ERROR: rtmp server requested close
[rtmpdump] TRACE 20:04:02.058 Process rtmpdump has a return code of 1! Maybe an error occured... check the log file
[New I/O server worker #1-2] DEBUG 20:04:02.133 Sleeping for 6000 milliseconds"

What is this?

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[Thread-22] DEBUG 20:04:02.040 WARNING: HandShake: client signature does not match!

this, doesnt appear when I run rtmpdump in the shell.

[SharkHunter]

Twosheds - cool . Pls share your result with the world (if you dare ).

dushashi - This is weird. Pls give some moer debug info. How you run etc.
This works for me but my -o arg is - and not /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_transcoder_out_1297883040799_41 but that shouldn't be an isue....

[chocolateboy]

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[rtmpdump] INFO  20:04:01.932 Starting rtmpdump -o /tmp/ps3mediaserver/pmsencoder_downloader_out_1297883040799_41 -r "rtmpe://fl11.c90909.cdn.qbrick.com/90909/_definst_/kluster/20110214/PG-1136348-001A-ABBYSFLYINGFA-01-mp4-e-v1.mp4"


For now, try removing the quotes from the URI (in rtmp.groovy). On non-Windows platforms, the command is executed directly (i.e. no shell), so it looks like rtmpdump is receiving an invalid URI that begins with a double-quote.

rtmp.groovy

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// XXX: non-Windows only

script {
    def RTMPDUMP = '/path/to/rtmpdump' // or just 'rtmpdump' if it's in $PATH

    profile ('RTMP(E)') {
        pattern {
            protocol ([ 'rtmp', 'rtmpe' ])
        }

        action {
            def ystrings = $URI.split('!!!pms_ch_dash_y!!!')
            if (ystrings.length > 1)
                $URI = ystrings[0] + '" -y "' + ystrings[1]
            def wstrings = $URI.split('!!!pms_ch_dash_w!!!')
            if (wstrings.length > 1)
                $URI = wstrings[0] + '" -W "' + wstrings[1]
            $DOWNLOADER = "$RTMPDUMP -o $DOWNLOADER_OUT -r ${$URI}"
        }
    }
}


[dushashi]

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For now, try removing the quotes from the URI (in rtmp.groovy). On non-Windows platforms, the command is executed directly (i.e. no shell), so it looks like rtmpdump is receiving an invalid URI that begins with a double-quote.

That was it. Thanks. Now RTMPDUMP works.

In the rtmp.groovy script fron NON-Windows you have to add def to RTMPDUMP = '/path/to/rtmpdump'.

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script {
    RTMPDUMP = '/path/to/rtmpdump' // or just 'rtmpdump' if it's in $PATH

It still doesn't work for me. But this is a transcoding error I think

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[mencoder] TRACE 22:54:48.871 Process mencoder has a return code of 136! Maybe an error occured... check the log file


I will look into this.

[chocolateboy]

In the rtmp.groovy script from NON-Windows you have to add def to RTMPDUMP = '/path/to/rtmpdump'.

Yes, sorry. That will be fixed in the next version of PMSEncoder, along with a bunch of other related issues.

To quickly debug (or, at least, start debugging) MEncoder errors directly, try piping the output of rtmpdump through mplayer:

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rtmpdump --quiet -r rtmp://whatever -o - | mplayer -prefer-ipv4 -cache 8192 -

It's only a "start", because MPlayer plays almost any input stream, whereas, as you say, MEncoder, in this context, is required to transcode.

[dushashi]

I am almost there. I dumped the rtmp stream to a file test.mp4 and saved in my shared folder.

Transcoding worked from the saved file perfect. Could stream it to my Bravia 5500.

On the fly transcoding still doesn't work. I still get the MEncoder error though.

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Process mencoder has a return code of 136! Maybe an error occured... check the log file

I will try your suggestion now chocolateboy