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arajantie |
2010-06-21
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#51
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Originally Posted by flareup
I don't have an N8xx, but if you have tried it, what does it say? I think it should run if you have mplayer and wget installed, but it is probably going to be quite slow. If you play around with the mplayer options, you may be able to get it to work reasonably well.
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2010-06-21
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@ Gent, Belgium
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#52
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I tried the new script today and it refuses to log me in, although I double verified my credentials. When I logon via the website, I'm getting this message :
"Due to unexpectedly high demand from users of your ISP, you are currently restricted to low quality streams. More Information"
I'm using a BTopenZone wifi AP.
Is there a way to modify the script to allow selecting at runtime the required feed ?
In my case I would have to select the "low quality" feed but it's better than nothing ...
Thanks for your work so far !
"Due to unexpectedly high demand from users of your ISP, you are currently restricted to low quality streams. More Information"
I'm using a BTopenZone wifi AP.
Is there a way to modify the script to allow selecting at runtime the required feed ?
In my case I would have to select the "low quality" feed but it's better than nothing ...
Thanks for your work so far !
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2010-06-26
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#53
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Hi,
This script works even better than before. I never thought to check back to see if the original had been improved. Great work.
I was actually going to post asking about stuttering playback, but I see this has been addressed (quality lowered for improved performance).
Anyhow, I've noted on a few quick searches that, alegedly, vlc handles h264 for the iphone streams, better than mplayer.
Gstreamer also gets mentioned favourably but all I can find is gstreamer-tools package.
Can your script make use of vlc or gstreamer tools?
The iphone streams look so good and playback so smoothly on an iphone, I hope that the n900 is also up to the job.
That said, what you've achieved is amazing.
Thanks
Owen
This script works even better than before. I never thought to check back to see if the original had been improved. Great work.
I was actually going to post asking about stuttering playback, but I see this has been addressed (quality lowered for improved performance).
Anyhow, I've noted on a few quick searches that, alegedly, vlc handles h264 for the iphone streams, better than mplayer.
Gstreamer also gets mentioned favourably but all I can find is gstreamer-tools package.
Can your script make use of vlc or gstreamer tools?
The iphone streams look so good and playback so smoothly on an iphone, I hope that the n900 is also up to the job.
That said, what you've achieved is amazing.
Thanks
Owen
Originally Posted by arajantie
It actually uses the same stream. The difference is just that it uses different mplayer options. With the original options the playback can be a bit jittery and mplayer complains about slow CPU, so I changed them a bit to speed things up, but at the expense of picture quality.
To go back to the original settings, edit the script using nano (or some other editor):
The options are on line 5. To get better picture quality but slower playback, remove "-lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all". MPlayer has lots of options, so you may want to experiment with them to see what gives the right balance between speed and picture quality.Code:nano -w /home/user/tvcatchup.sh
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2010-06-26
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#54
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The script, with a Qt user interface, is now in extras-devel, which should make installation and use easier. The package name is tvcplayer. Please give it a try. (The usual warnings about extras-devel apply.)
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2010-06-27
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#55
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Hi,
I tried the tvc player, and thought it might be based on an older script as I noticed that the quality was higher but performance was stuttering.
Then again, I might just have assumed that.
I tried the tvc player, and thought it might be based on an older script as I noticed that the quality was higher but performance was stuttering.
Then again, I might just have assumed that.
Originally Posted by arajantie
The script, with a Qt user interface, is now in extras-devel, which should make installation and use easier. The package name is tvcplayer. Please give it a try. (The usual warnings about extras-devel apply.)
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2010-06-30
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#56
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Originally Posted by oweng
You are right, it uses the original high-quality options. To switch to lower quality but faster decoding, go to the Mplayer options menu, and add "-lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all" to the list of arguments.
Hi,
I tried the tvc player, and thought it might be based on an older script as I noticed that the quality was higher but performance was stuttering.
There is also a separate issue that sometimes there is a lot of noise in the picture and mplayer complains about a corrupted file (in the terminal window). This seems to be an incompatibility issue between the stream and the ffmpeg codec.
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2010-06-30
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#57
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Originally Posted by oweng
I don't have vlc on my n900, but I remember seeing it mentioned here. Is it available in a usable form?
Anyhow, I've noted on a few quick searches that, alegedly, vlc handles h264 for the iphone streams, better than mplayer.
Gstreamer also gets mentioned favourably but all I can find is gstreamer-tools package.
Can your script make use of vlc or gstreamer tools?
I've tried to get gstreamer to play the stream, but it does not seem to work.
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2010-06-30
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@ Rochdale UK
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#58
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VLC is the only player i ever got working with this - works with m.tvcatchup.com and only the low quality streams are watchable to the point i got with it.
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2010-06-30
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#59
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Originally Posted by arajantie
Now I found what appears to be RC2 of VLC 1.1.0 for Maemo at http://downloads.videolan.org/videolan/maemo/vlc/. It looks great, but unfortunately I could not get it to play this stream.
I don't have vlc on my n900, but I remember seeing it mentioned here. Is it available in a usable form?
So it looks like we have to use mplayer.
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2010-06-30
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#60
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I have eventually found the correct repo details:
Catalogue name: VLC
Web address: http://downloads.videolan.org/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free
does this help anyone?
Catalogue name: VLC
Web address: http://downloads.videolan.org/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free
does this help anyone?
Originally Posted by arajantie
Now I found what appears to be RC2 of VLC 1.1.0 for Maemo at http://downloads.videolan.org/videolan/maemo/vlc/. It looks great, but unfortunately I could not get it to play this stream.
So it looks like we have to use mplayer.