"irish TV" player on xbmc

zakalibit

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.1.5
- fixed kodi shutdown
- fixed windows startup error
- lowered live streams quality to 576, 720 is not available sometimes due to capacity problems

for manual install download the zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.1.5
- fixed kodi shutdown
- fixed windows startup error
- lowered live streams quality to 576, 720 is not available sometimes due to capacity problems

for manual install download the zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

Does this mean 720 is not available at all?

If so I think I will keep the present version even though Kodi is slow to shut down and hammers one core during the delay, because it is pointless, from my point of view, to try to watch sport - like the soccer tonight - in 576 and not 720.

zakalibit

yes, but rte1 now is not available in 720 due to the capacity problems, so if there is sport is very likely that 720 will be unavailable.

this can be fixed, so just be patient

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

yes, but rte1 now is not available in 720 due to the capacity problems, so if there is sport is very likely that 720 will be unavailable.

this can be fixed, so just be patient

Ah, thank you for the clarification ..... I thought it was a permanent move to 576

I will update to 2.1.5

Johnboy1951

2.1.4 would not update so I uninstalled and installed 2.1.5

News Now played in 720 according to Kodi

RTÉ 1 & RTÉ 2 failed to play at all.

It tells me it failed and to check the log ..... but I found nothing in the kodi.log file about it except maybe this

22:53:50 T:140449519511552   ERROR: JSONRPC Server: Failed to bind ipv4 serversocket
22:53:50 T:140447856404224  NOTICE: Start - EPG thread started
22:53:57 T:140449519511552   ERROR: Window Translator: Can't find window filestackingdialog
22:53:57 T:140449519511552   ERROR: Window Translator: Can't find window peripherals

Ideas?

zakalibit

restart kodi?

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

restart kodi?

Had tried that a few times with the same result.

Maybe a restart will help ...... will check tomorrow.

Shutting down for the night.

The error message .....

Playback Failed
One or more items failed to play. Check the log for more
information about this message.

zakalibit

show me the full log, it works for me.

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

show me the full log, it works for me.

Seems there is no need because after firing up this morning all three live channels played correctly.

Sorry I did not have the opportunity to try a reboot last night.

zakalibit

Probably you got an orphan ffmpeg process running, that can interfere with the newly started rte stream decrypted, it basically won't start. The mechanism there is far from perfect

Mickalus

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.1.5
- fixed kodi shutdown
- fixed windows startup error
- lowered live streams quality to 576, 720 is not available sometimes due to capacity problems

for manual install download the zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

Confirmed - no more errors on start up in Windows

zakalibit

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.0
- added windows live streaming support
- live streaming will select best available stream


download latest zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.0
- added windows live streaming support
- live streaming will select best available stream


download latest zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

The zip size seems to have gone from 133KB to 13MBs?

Something wrong with that?

EDIT: It seems to have ffmpeg.exe of 32.4MB (compressed 12.6MBs) included in the Zip.

zakalibit

yes I had to include windows ffmpeg.exe, I'm not sure that an ordinary windows user knows how to install ffmpeg executable and make it available on the path, as well I had to include pycrypot windows binaries.

An option would be to produce 2 versions of the zip, but that is to much household for now.

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

yes I had to include windows ffmpeg.exe, I'm not sure that an ordinary windows user knows how to install ffmpeg executable and make it available on the path, as well I had to include pycrypot windows binaries.

An option would be to produce 2 versions of the zip, but that is to much household for now.

What would be the result if I extracted the zip, deleted the win directory, and zipped the remains again?

zakalibit

yes

Johnboy1951

done and installed

captain_boycott

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.0
- added windows live streaming support
- live streaming will select best available stream


download latest zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

still getting the startup error and no streams working at all now (RTE now used to work). Will pm you my log.

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.0
- added windows live streaming support
- live streaming will select best available stream


download latest zip from http://zakalibit.github.io/kodi.rteplayer.hq/

What resolution streams are available to choose from?

Thanks

zakalibit

captain_boycott wrote: »

still getting the startup error and no streams working at all now (RTE now used to work). Will pm you my log.

Strange, tested on linux and windows, will take a look.

zakalibit

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

What resolution streams are available to choose from?

Thanks

the top level playlist looks like this one:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=4096000
rte1/rte1-720.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=2048000
rte1/rte1-576.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=1024000
rte1/rte1-360.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=512000
rte1/rte1-270.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=256000
rte1/rte1-180.m3u8

and you have no choice, it will select automatically the highest available bitrate

zakalibit

captain_boycott wrote: »

still getting the startup error and no streams working at all now (RTE now used to work). Will pm you my log.

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.1
- fixed unicode bug


try now

Johnboy1951

zakalibit wrote: »

the top level playlist looks like this one:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=4096000
rte1/rte1-720.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=2048000
rte1/rte1-576.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=1024000
rte1/rte1-360.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=512000
rte1/rte1-270.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=883325023,BANDWIDTH=256000
rte1/rte1-180.m3u8

and you have no choice, it will select automatically the highest available bitrate

Thank you.

No I did not mean to imply that I expected the user to choose

pg17

On Windows 10 with Kodi 16.0

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.0 automatically just now and the 3 live streams (RTE One, RTE Two and RTE News Now) work just fine for me.

Sweetemotion

Thanks for your work Zakalibit, all 3 streams working perfect on linx 7. 2.2.1

Mickalus

All 3 streams working perfectly on Win 7, kodi 16.

Cheers! great job!

Batesy

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.1
- fixed unicode bug


try now

Just want to say a huge thanks for this add-on.
Exceptional work.

zakalibit

Any MacOS users here?

captain_boycott

zakalibit wrote: »

RTÉ Player HQ updated to V2.2.1
- fixed unicode bug


try now

Beautiful! Working perfectly now, many thanks!


At first I kept getting update failed, but after an uninstall & restart, it installed correctly. (running on Win7 64bit)

Movie Maestro

zakalibit you are a LEGEND mate, excellent work:D:D:D