Re: [RFC] RTMP (flash streaming) support

[email protected] said:
> I just happened to setup a freevo box at home, connected to a TV. As it turns
> out, TV live streaming was important for my own purposes so I decided to
> quickly hack rtmp support (lots of live free TV services are rtmp) into
> freevo. Since this might be useful for others too, I decided to share my
> setup. 

Thanks for looking into this. I came across the same issue, and came up with 
this mplayer wrapper script. It effectively makes the wrapper also accept 
rtmp* URLs in addition to mplayer's normal ones.


#!/bin/bash


FIFO=/tmp/mplayer_rtmpdump.$$
RTMPDUMP=$HOME/rtmpdump-2.2d/rtmpdump
ARGS=("$@")

RTMP=0
for i in `seq 0 $#` ; do 
        if [[ "${ARGS[$i]}" =~ "rtmp" ]] ; then
                [ -p $FIFO ] || mkfifo $FIFO
                RTMP=1
                $RTMPDUMP -o $FIFO  -r "${ARGS[$i]}"  2> /dev/null 1>&2 &
                #sleep 3
                ARGS[$i]=$FIFO
        fi
done

/usr/bin/mplayer "${ARGS[@]}"

[ X"$RTMP" = X1 ] &&  kill -9 %1 && rm $FIFO




A typical fxd looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<freevo>
        <copyright>(C) SVT.SE</copyright>
<movie title="The Event">
<cover-img source="http://media.svt.se/download/mcc/flash/20101002/PG-1141269-002A-EVENTTHE1-01/PG-1141269-002A-EVENTTHE1-01_start_0.jpg">/media/tv/SVTPlay/.covers/http___media.svt.se_download_mcc_flash_20101002_PG-1141269-002A-EVENTTHE1-01_PG-1141269-002A-EVENTTHE1-01_start_0.jpg</cover-img>
        <video mplayer-options="-user-agent NSPlayer/4.1.0.3856 -cache-min 1 ">
               <url id="f1">rtmpe://fl11.c90909.cdn.qbrick.com/90909/_definst_/kluster/20101002/PG-1141269-002A-EVENTTHE1-01-mp4-e-v1.mp4</url>
                <player>mplayer</player>
        </video>
        <info><rating></rating>
                <plot></plot>
                <tagline>Del 2 av 13 --  -- (rtmp...)</tagline>
                <recording_timestamp></recording_timestamp>
                <year></year>
                <genre>Film och drama</genre>
                <runtime></runtime>
        </info>
</movie>
</freevo>

(Automatically created fxd from http:/svtplay.se/. Lot's of hacky scripts 
behind this one... :-) )


Anyone knwos if rtmpe support is anywhere near making it into mplayer? I've 
failed to come up with a way to make this seekable, but I guess a full 
integration in mplayer would fix that.

/Anders




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