Turn your tablet into a digital TV receiver lookalike.

Using VideoCenter, using the attached playlist, with a little of tweaking, you turn your tablet into a TV lookalike.

These are the URLs I have in my Video Center databases. Everytime I moved from a tablet to another, or change the MMC cards, i end up have to reenter all the URLs manually, one by one. Is there a better way to copy these URLs? TIA,

Edit: Now you dont have to manually enter those URLs, just dl the attached primary3.rar.zip at the end of this post, and follow the instructions, you would have 72 TV channels, mostly USA, in your tablet. Enjoy,

bun

VCURLs72
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These are NEW list from primary3.db, i.e., version from 6/6/08

serviceID serviceURI
1 http://videolinks.nokia.com/servicec...810/index.html
3 http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/tele_...enclosures.xml
4 http://www.podshow.com/feeds/nokia-n800.xml
5 http://feeds.cbsnews.com/podcast_eveningnews_video_1
6 http://www.linktv.org/rss/itunes/explorespecial1.xml
7 http://feeds.feedburner.com/AbcNews_...eos?format=xml
8 http://www.videopodcasts.tv/vc.php?a...gofeed&id=1055
9 http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasti...dition/rss.xml
10 http://podcast.nationalgeographic.com/ng-atmosphere
11 http://broadband.nba.com/cc/podcast.php?type=vodcast
12 http://www.wdevn.com/wdevn.xml
13 http://rss.omptv.com/modelfeatures.rss
14 http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/headline-rss.xml
15 http://abcnews.go.com/xmldata/xmlPodcast?id=1478958
16 http://abcnews.go.com/xmldata/xmlPodcast?id=2601376
17 http://abcnews.go.com/xmldata/xmlPodcast?id=3338276
18 http://abcnews.go.com/xmldata/xmlPodcast?id=1474766
19 http://feeds.cbsnews.com/podcast_kceye_video_1
20 http://feeds.cbsnews.com/podcast_kcnotebook_video_1
21 http://feeds.cbsnews.com/podcast_nation_video_1
22 http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podca...ETCAST-M4V.xml
23 http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podca...ETCAST-M4V.xml
24 http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podca...ETCAST-M4V.xml
25 http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podca...ODCAST-M4V.xml
27 http://www.linktv.org/rss/itunes/best.xml
28 http://www.linktv.org/rss/general/earth.xml
29 http://www.linktv.org/rss/general/globalpulse.xml
30 http://www.linktv.org/rss/general/latin_pulse.xml
31 http://www.linktv.org/rss/general/MIR.xml
32 http://www.linktv.org/rss/general/mosaic.xml
34 http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/xvid-small.xml
35 http://revision3.com/systm/feed/xvid-small.xml
36 http://revision3.com/indigital/feed/xvid-small.xml
37 http://revision3.com/trs/feed/xvid-small.xml
38 http://www.discovery.com/radio/xml/discovery_video.xml
39 http://www.foxnews.com/xmlfeed/video...975,150,00.xml
40 http://Podcast.nationalgeographic.com/wild-chronicles/
41 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/vipod.xml
42 http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasting/ac360/rss.xml
43 http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasting/nitn/rss.xml
44 http://feeds.feedburner.com/asm
45 http://www.discovery.com/radio/xml/news_video.xml
47 http://podcast.nationalgeographic.co...usic-spotlight
48 http://www.vh1.com/rss/podcast/bestofvh1.jhtml
54 http://feeds.feedburner.com/FrenchMaidTV
57 http://feeds.feedburner.com/mtvnews/...eadlines/Video
60 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/nova-vodcast-pb.xml
62 http://www.247hh.com/feed/247HH
63 http://www.g4tv.com/icons/podcasts/1...eo_Podcast.xml
65 http://feeds.feedburner.com/classicanimation
66 http://feeds.feedburner.com/maccise
67 http://video.google.com/videofeed?ty...r&so=1&num=100
69 http://geekbrief.podshow.com/feed.xml
70 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ecogeeks
73 http://my4x4tv.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php
74 http://www.foxxynews.com/vodcast.xml
75 http://podcast.chumcity.net/specialt...ly_Podcast.xml
77 http://feeds.feedburner.com/KathyMai...okingVideoCast
78 http://feeds.feedburner.com/comedycentral/standup
79 http://feeds.feedburner.com/comedycentral/motherload
80 http://feeds.feedburner.com/comedycentral/whatsnew
81 http://revision3.com/tekzilla/feed/xvid-small/
82 http://revision3.com/bestof/feed/xvid-small/
83 http://revision3.com/epicfu/feed/xvid-small/
85 http://revision3.com/diggreel/feed/xvid-small/
86 http://revision3.com/gigaom/feed/xvid-small/
87 http://revision3.com/ifanboy/feed/xvid-small/
88 http://revision3.com/internetsuperstar/feed/xvid-small/
89 http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/feed/xvid-small/
90 http://revision3.com/popsiren/feed/xvid-small/
91 http://revision3.com/rev3gazette/feed/xvid-small/
92 http://revision3.com/scamschool/feed/xvid-small/
93 http://revision3.com/webdrifter/feed/xvid-small/
94 http://revision3.com/xlr8rtv/feed/xvid-small/
95 http://ipod.break.com/channel/homepage/
96 http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/rss/nokia.mrss
97 http://www.sonypictures.com/mobile/n...nypictures.rss


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Edit: 5/3/08 new version, 72 TV channels for VideoCenter. The VC URLs.txt is a list of the URLs, same as you see on this post. You can add this into your VC by manually type it in. Or, bunanson has done the typing for you,

1) dl the primary.db.zip.deb into your PC, NOT your tablet, and it is NOT a deb file
2) on the PC, rename the file as primary.db.zip
3) expand the primary.db.zip into primary.db and myvideos.db on your PC. I use winzip., now you have primary.db and myvideos.db on the PC
you can "shared folder" copy to your mmc card, say /media/mmc1/primary.db, under xterm
ls -l primary.db 1352704. If the length is not right, please re-download again
4) copy the primary.db and myvideos.db back to your tablet and replace the /home/user/videocenter/primary.db and myvideos.db with these. WARNING: your own VC channel will be all gone! pls back up first. I use emelFM2. Or using example on step 4)
xterm
cp /media/mmc1/primary.db /home/user/videocenter
cp /media/mmc1/myvideos.db /home/user/myvideos.db
5) now enjoy 72 channels TVs on your VC.

Or, if you have zip function installed on your tablet, you could dl the primary.db.zip file to the tablet and unzip it directly and then replace your primary.db and myvideos.db with these. I have NOT tried this method.

Or, somehow replace your /home/user/videocenter/primary.db and myvideos.db with these will get you all the TV channels. Again, when you do this, you will lose all your own internet videos, so back up if you need it.

Or, you can browse it with sqlitebrowser and add it to your existing primary.db



why all this trouble? There is a limitation on file upload and this primary.db file is 1.3 Mb

More info on another thread, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...736#post177736

And more of your TV viewing pleasure here, they are not duplicates and are of different contents, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19044


Edit: 6/6/08
I have upload a new copy of primary3.rar.zip which included many new stations, and ComedyCentral by popular demand. Those do not stream well are gone now. Only either stream well or dl copy render well stays. All Xvid-small have to use mplayer and they render so well that you start to wonder is this really streaming.

To get it into your Video Center:
1) dl primary3.db.zip
2) extract to primary.db and myvideos.db; I use WinRAR
3) backup YOUR own primary.db ***** You going to write over your own primary.db!!! If you do not care, you DO NOT have to backup
4) copy primary.db and myvideos.db into your tablet /home/user/videocenter

assume using default folder:
transfer to /home/user/MyDocs/.documents
xterm
cp /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/primary.db /home/user/videocenter
cp /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/myvideos.db /home/user/videocenter
voila, you are done.

Edit: 7/8/8: Just unzip the zip file into primary.db and myvideos.db and use emelfm2 file manager to replace the two files in path
/home/user/videocenter. and that is it.



Note: VC URLs.txt is really old. Dont bother with it. primary.db.zip.deb was version 1, outdated by now. Primary3.db.zip is the most recent copy.


Some screenshots. These are actual video shots, not still pics. Clarity has been decreased to fit forum posting.

bun

iirc videocenter stores its URLs in a SQLite database file in MyDocs.

When I fix my N810 I'll try and find it for you, you can then backup and restore it whenever [though I thought backup/restore did that anyway?]

@yabbas: Thanks for the info. That is a big help! It took over 15 min of careful typing to get those URLs into the tablet. Copying from a database file will be extremely helpful.

BTW, I just left my MMC at home and would like to play with the VideoCenter while I am now in my office, those URLs are soooooooooooo handy and timely. I deserved a pat on my back, ha!


bun

Awesome post! This is the kinda of sharing that I'd like to see more on this site!!!

Can Video Center handle mms type of URLs? I bookmarked quite a few using the default Media Player.

this post should be sticky !!! very usefull, thanks

Edit: wrong post, me bad.

Oh, please put those URLs here, we will take a look

bun

OK. For example:

[Chinese] CCTV4 mms://72.166.136.132/cctv4-200

[Chinese] NTD TV
mms://online.ntdtvcast.com/Stream-Live

[French] France 24
mms://live.france24.com/france24_fr.wsx

[German] NDR Fernsehen
mms://213.254.239.66/ndrfernsehen$ndr_hh

[German] NTV
mms://stream.n-tv.de/ntvlive

Those are streaming web contents. They do not work with video center and they do not need video center either. They works ok with media player, clear, watchable.
media player>Library>Clip>Add media bookmark...

Name: CCTV-4
Web address: mms://72.166.136.132/cctv4-200
Type: Video stream

Thanks for the mms source. I enjoy them.


bun

name: oldcartoontv
mms://us.impek.com/oldcartoontv