Plugin: Dreambox E2 streaming

[Toni]

The WDTV doesn't know how to handle the .m3u files. That's the whole reason why I built this plugin, i.e. to provide a uPNP way tell the WDTV to play the same stream you see on the .m3u files.

Yes, I'm also quite fed up with the WDTV player myself. Perhaps I should try to upgrade to the latest firmware. But I also must admit I haven't been that active since I got it working somewhat. My goal was to make it work well enough so that I could watch recordings and pay-TV channels on the other TV upstairs.

[disorganizer]

hopefuly you will continue developing it when something new pops up

just for understanding the code:
what is sent from the proxy to the dream is:

$out = "GET $prmPath HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$out .= "User-Agent: Wget/1.12\r\n";
$out .= "Accept: */*\r\n";
$out .= "Host: $prmHost:$prmPort\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n";
$out .= "\r\n";

correct?
and

header('HTTP/1.0 200 OK');
header('Connection: Close');
header('ContentFeatures.DLNA.ORG: DLNA.ORG_OP=00;DLNA.ORG_CI=1');
header('Content-Type: video/mpeg');
header('Server: stream_enigma2');

is sent from proxy to wdtv-player?

i wonder why CI=1 is used (which would mean "transcoded").
the ORG_OP seems ok and needed for me, as it seems to mean "no seek support".


there is an interesting post, btw, in this forum: http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1477 explaining some of the dnla options.

[mad_ady]

You are right interpreting the headers. You can test without sending the ContentFeatures header - the WDTV will manage without it.

[disorganizer]

maybe an idea for epg implementation:
do you know that
http://dreambox/web/epgservice?sRef={serviceRev}
= full epg for service {serviceRev}
http://dreambox/web/epgservicenow?sRef={serviceRev}
http://dreambox/web/epgservicenext?sRef={serviceRev}
= epg-now and next for service {serviceRev}

(see http://e2devel.com/apidoc/webif/#epgservicenext )
?

sample result:

<e2eventlist>
<e2event>
<e2eventid>51280</e2eventid>
<e2eventstart>1325610000</e2eventstart>
<e2eventduration>3000</e2eventduration>
<e2eventcurrenttime>1325609158</e2eventcurrenttime>
<e2eventtitle>Verbotene Liebe</e2eventtitle>
<e2eventdescription>Folge 3993</e2eventdescription>
<e2eventdescriptionextended>
Christian will Olli überraschen und die Jagdhütte mieten, um sich dort erneut das Ja-Wort zu geben. Als Christian erfährt, dass ihm jemand die Hütte vor der Nase weggeschnappt hat, glaubt er, die geplante Hochzeit verschieben zu müssen.
</e2eventdescriptionextended>
<e2eventservicereference>1:0:19:2B5C:41B:A401:FFFF0000:0:0:0:</e2eventservicereference>
<e2eventservicename>Das Erste HD</e2eventservicename>
</e2event>
</e2eventlist>

also interesting for this purpose would be:
web/epgnownext?bRef={BouquetRev}
which delivers an eml for the bouquet {BouquetRev} for all services containing now and next epg info per service.


btw:
where is the "description" field for upnp objects shown in wdlx?

'dc:title' => $newMovie['title'],
'desc' => $newMovie['description'],
'size' => $newMovie['filesize'],

i believe that would be the right place for the epg, but i do not find the information on the screen

[disorganizer]

4) Live TV starts within a couple of seconds. For the recordings, the player seeks to the end of the file before starting the playback, maybe it's about this?

i found something interesting in this post:
http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?p=50469#p50469
so maybe this is the reason why the playback on recording which are still ongoing is stopping.
i will try to set the content length to some huge value tonight (and 0) and check if i find some time.

also i will try to find out how to easily check whether a file is recording at the moment or not (which would be needed for this trick to work around the problem so we do not need to set the huge value for all files).

[disorganizer]

above does not help. setting size to 0 or to a huge size will still stop the file.
the player seems to "discover" the real size of the file and stops playback after playing the size it discovered.
too bad

also setting to videobroadcast does not help.
strange.

is there some reference of which parameters we can pass to the player?

[Paratwa]

hi

is there any chance to get both actual files - Enigma2 (for my DM8K) and Enigma1 (for my DM7025) now that fileserve is strikly private?

could you please upload both versions again to a hoster that still allows sharing files??

greetings

Paratwa

[Manni62]

Since a few days, the streaming of Dreambox E2 recordings does not work! I get a fault message, that the file format can not be played. The streaming of LiveTV works without problems.
Can annyone help me with this problem?

[Manni62]

"Since a few days, the streaming of Dreambox E2 recordings does not work! I get a fault message, that the file format can not be played. The streaming of LiveTV works without problems.
Can annyone help me with this problem?"

Has anyone an Idea about this Problem???

[brandylorton]

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