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There is already a workaround to get uitzendinggemist working, but it is a hassle. An app would be great! Maybe also make on for RTL?

Ik ben voor!

Sounds very nice! still have to receive my n900 but this will be a usefull app!

Gimme gimme gimme!

Can anyone describe what needs to be done? I understand that the mediaplayer plays the stream but the hard part is to get the stream url.

So is there a step-by-step description how to get the stream url?

Yes please!

I wrote a couple of scripts (shell and perl) to download the uitzendinggemist data so that I can use the website from Australia [it's unwatchable live from the site due to network delays].

I can share my code to get things started, there are a few involved steps.

Wouldn't it be easier, however, to get it working in the browser ? The problem I had when trying this was that the mms streams wouldn't play in the media player application. I can get to the player.omroep.nl page, but when I click on the viewer icon, it takes me to the media player which complains that it can't play the stream "Media format not supported".

Is there a simple way of getting the media player to support the wmv files ?

For reference, the steps are:

# using wget, first get uitzendinggemist.nl to get a cookie
# then get the page for the series (eg 25 for man bijt hond)
# find the aflevering id for the episode required (parse the
# page and look for the desired date)
# Get the player.omroep.nl/?aflID=nnn
# Get the player.omroep.nl/js/initialization.js.php?aflID=nnn
# capture the securityCode from the js file
# Get the xml definition from metaplayer.xml.php?alfID=nnn&md5=mmm
# parse the xml file, and get the cgi.omroep.nl URL to get the wmv file
# get the cgi.omroep.nl file using a user agent code mimicking firefox
# parse the resultant xml file to get he mms URL
# use mplayer to play the mms url

Note that the uitzendinggemist people could change or disable this capability at any time (they're not keen on people being able to download the files), so the browser method would be more reliable.

Anything new on this? Or is the idea abandoned ?

Probably nobody is working on it. I found this:

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/...80638#32680638

It's php code to get the mms url's. Thats a nice start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTPD-zwjB4

this is the workaroun I use to get it working. It is a greasemonkey script that transforms the title of the broadcast in a link. this link can be copy pasted in kmplayer.