Notices

gptvview.py is an application for streaming video from website of the Swedish newspaper "Göteborgs Posten" (http://gptv.gp.se/player). The content is in Swedish so this is only of interest for Swedish speaking people. As a consequence the GUI is in Swedish too.

The app is written in Python so the Python runtime is required. (Packages python2.5-runtime and python2.5-xml.)

The video format is FLV and GPTVview will launch mplayer to play the video so mplayer is also required. The bitrate and resolution is high but it will play smooth most of the time. I have only tested it on N800. I suspect the 770 will have trouble playing the video.

I have not packaged the app so there is no menu entry. Just save the script on your tablet and launch it from xterm or as I do, from osso-statusbar-cpu.

Some of the clips are split in several parts with commercial in-between. GPTVview will automatically skip the commercials but there will be a pause while mplayer buffers the start of the next part.

Issues:

• No download support, only streaming.
• Only content from "Senast publicerat" (latest published) is shown.
• mplayer plays the last seconds of a video in slow motion with no sound.

The app is kind of basic but it works for me. I have used it on a daily basis for a few months time by now.

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Anders