"irish TV" player on xbmc

NyOmnishambles

Zakalibit, it works really well in fairness

A live TV option would be the icing on the cake for it but even just for the playback facility it is much better than the RTEPlayer.apk that I have been using within Kodi

Well done

zakalibit

NyOmnishambles wrote: »

Zakalibit, it works really well in fairness

A live TV option would be the icing on the cake for it but even just for the playback facility it is much better than the RTEPlayer.apk that I have been using within Kodi

Well done

The live stream is not that simple, it looks like is protected by an authentication mechanism, so it might take some time, so for now the extra feature I can add is search option

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

The live stream is not that simple, it looks like is protected by an authentication mechanism, so it might take some time, so for now the extra feature I can add is search option

Thanks ...... what I have tried works very well and if the search works as well that will be a welcome addition.

IMO there is no point adding some function (Live TV?) that might crap out in a few weeks from now. Be better not to include it IMO.

Hopefully you can figure out how to include Live TV ...... when available I look forward to using it.

Thanks for this plugin

zakalibit

I have implemented search function, it is similar to the smart tv plugin, I noticed that it wont search everything that is available, the same on smart tv, I might come up with a fix for this in the future.

zakalibit

Just a FYI, the streams are available outside Ireland in the plugin, at least tested from Holland, not sure if it is the whole content.

vitony

I get a 404 error on the link provided. Any solution?

zakalibit

https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hd/blob/master/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq-1.0.8.zip?raw=true

william

zakalibit wrote: »

fixed https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hd/raw/master/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq-1.0.5.zip

or try to do a forced update in kodi, player should update it's self

many thanks for this. works brilliantly.

zakalibit

FYI: I have migrated the plugins repository to https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hq
the old one has a version that will upgrade to this new repository.
For the new installs go to the new repository, as well I put together a simple what and how-to site here https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hq

There is few new improvements coming down the pipeline, I do not have any etas, so keep tuned.

Zilog

zakalibit wrote: »

FYI: I have migrated the plugins repository to https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hq

Nice work zakalibit! Using on Wetek Play (from Bargain Alerts thread).
Icon style for the plugin doesn't really fit with default Confluence skin on Kodi though, so added my own to the plugin. My first venture into plugin modification! Included background fanart too.
I've attached if you want to use. Thanks again for the plugin.

Download: RTE Player HQ artwork

zakalibit

Will take a look when I have time.

zakalibit

icon&fanart changed, there is a new zip version

zakalibit

I finally managed to get time and do some more reverse engineering of the official rte player, as a result I got live streams working for the RTE1 and RTE2.
Unfortunately they do not work that smoothly on kodi for some reason. What I had to do, is to implement a descrambling/decoding service, that decodes the stream, as kodi can not playback aes-128 encoded hls stream it self, it is actually ffmpeg that kodi is using, as well it struggles with the decoded stream, that my service produces.

I know that the problem is kodi/ffmpeg, as vlc plays just fine if I pipe the stream to vlc through my service.

So here is a beta version https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hq/raw/master/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq-2.0.0-beta.zip

I have not updated repository info, so it does not get pushed automatically as an update, so if you're brave enough install it manually and give it a go.

Please report any bugs you find here on the forum.

Movie Maestro

Fantastic work zakalibit, we all appreciate it - will try this over the weekend

bkeane

Installed onto a kodi 16 of windows 10 and neither RTE One or Two would work

zakalibit

bkeane wrote: »

Installed onto a kodi 16 of windows 10 and neither RTE One or Two would work

could you please send me kodi logs? put them somewhere on the pastebin
as well could you try start kodi, the leave kodi running, minimize it and start vlc, in vlc open http://localhost:7001/rte1

Johnboy1951

Kodi attempted to play both RTE1 and RTE2, but was not fluid on either.
In fact it seemed to store/buffer part of the stream and then had a tendency to jump back and replay what had already been played.

Be aware that my connection is not fast .... 5 to 6 Mb/s

I tried also using VLC, and it played both.

It seems that the resolution it produces is 1024x578

I am using Linux.

zakalibit

I tried different kodi settings and it seems that sometimes disabled hardware decoding makes it better.
So it looks like it needs to be transcoded in to something that kodi can digest, can be probably done if there is vlc installed on the system, i.e. it might work on linux/android/windows.

I'll actually try record a sample file and send it to kodi developers, see what they have to say.

Johnboy1951

What format is the stream received in originally?

zakalibit

it is hls aes-128 encoded, so kodi nether can aes-128 decode, nor playback decoded stream.
vlc struggles with decoding, but plays well decoded stream, from my experience

bkeane

zakalibit wrote: »

could you please send me kodi logs? put them somewhere on the pastebin
as well could you try start kodi, the leave kodi running, minimize it and start vlc, in vlc open http://localhost:7001/rte1

Here is what i found in the kodi log file in relation to rteplayer

14:26:36 T:2220 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>
Error Contents: No module named Crypto.Cipher
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.rteplayer.hq\service.py", line 26, in <module>
import rtestreamer as RTEStreamer
File "build/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq/resources/site-packages/rtestreamer.py", line 7, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Crypto.Cipher
-->End of Python script error report<--

zakalibit

you need pycrypto module installed, google for how to do it on windows, I do not have a windows machine, sorry.

zakalibit

this the media information as reported by vlc

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

this the media information as reported by kodi

Is that not the VLC output?

zakalibit

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Is that not the VLC output?

yes, sorry

zakalibit

Another try https://github.com/zakalibit/kodi.rteplayer.hq/raw/master/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq/plugin.video.rteplayer.hq-2.0.1-beta.zip

added all available bitrates, 360 is more or less consumable

another thing I found is that I had missing vaapi driver, I started kodi from the console and I got few hints from there.

on ubuntu like systems it can be installed like this:
sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver libva-intel-vaapi-driver vainfo

but it did not make any difference for me.

Johnboy1951

I get

libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so

which fails because there is no such file on this system.

$ locate -i i965
/usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so

I suspect there might be something happening with the reception of the stream itself.
I was monitoring my download while operating Kodi and it was all over the place ...... from zero to about 750KB ...... while at the same time the channel was stopping and repeating segments as before.

I don't know enough about this stuff to make any suggestions, sorry

Johnboy1951

After installing a couple of vaapi packages from the repo I get this

$ kodi
libva info: VA-API version 0.38.1
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_34
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
WARNING: Invalid reference frame!!!

and the output is definitely a little better.
Not a lot though as it still stalls.

zakalibit

try disabling hw decoding in kodi, settings->video->acceleration

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

try disabling hw decoding in kodi, settings->video->acceleration

Done ....... again a small improvement.

Here is a graph of the connection when watching RTE 1




As you can see the download is dropping off to zero.
I think this is what is causing the problems here.