VLC VoD RTSP Streaming

[SamuelTee]

Hey Guys,

first of all: Great forum. Helped a lot in the past few days. Thanks to anyone who's part of it. Second: I got my modded ready-to-use xbox from a friend and I'm a xbmc-:eek:-horn. So please try, to be patient with me.

Now, my problem :D

First I tried to watch mp4 movies using MFXStream. That didn't work ... well, it did work ... but due to some lack of cpu or whatever power I only got 0.5fps (on some vids). Then I stumbled across vlc's streaming ability. On my PC I got it working: VoD rtsp streaming including transcoding.
When I tried that using the xbmc as client .. it didn't work. The log just said.

01-01-2002 14:30:42 ERROR cmplayer::openfile() rtsp://192.168.x.x/Video failed

I thought, wow, what a log entry. Tells you everything you need to know.

Then I found out, that theres a debug-mode. Started it, and tata. The log now says:

01-01-2002 14:23:57 DEBUG msg:Playing rtsp://192.168.x.x/Video.
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:find subtitles
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:auto open Z:\subtitle
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:protocol:rtsp
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:open stream protocol:rtsp
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:Connecting to server 192.168.2.105[192.168.2.105]:554 ...
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:rtsp_session: Not a Real server. Server type is 'VLC Server'.
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:Not a Realmedia rtsp url. Trying standard rtsp protocol.
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:RTSP support requires the "LIVE.COM Streaming Media" libraries!
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:Unable to open URL: rtsp://192.168.2.105:554/V
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:unable to open stream
01-01-2002 14:23:58 ERROR cmplayer::openfile() rtsp://192.168.x.x/Video failed
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg: mplayer_close_file()
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg:
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg: uninit_player
01-01-2002 14:23:58 DEBUG msg: uninit_player - done

Ok, some LIVE.COM libraries are missing. I found out, that they are called LIVE555 now. And then I found out this (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=MPlayer).


This is a list of (some of) the features/functions/codecs that works fine in latest CVS of MPlayer for Linux/OS-X/Windows but are as of yet unsupported in XBMC:

* SSA and ASS subtitles with advanced layout and characters.
* RTSP/RTP streaming support via the via LIVE555 library (formaly known as the LIVE.COM library).
* RealNetworks RealVideo 10 (RV10) audio/video, this was only partialy supported in the MPlayer 1.0pre6 demuxer/spliter. You have to wait until MPlayer 1.0pre8+ gets ported to XBMC.

Please note that none of the features listed above are planned yet (so if you can program C/C++, please feel free to code and submit a patch.


So, has anyone got xbmc working with these libraries (if so, where can i found the mplayer.dll)? I found some other threads about this but they all ended up with no solution in mid 2007.
Or, is there any other streaming server with the capabilities of vlc (vod, transcoding) but with supported rtsp streaming?

Thanks and greetings from germany,
Samuel

[SamuelTee]

Any ideas? Anyone? ???

[nickolasj80]

First off, why are you transcoding? XBMC can play everything under the sun, (exc hd) both locally and over the network.

If you have an mp4 movie, just copy it to your xbox, or have it on your pc, share the directory, and set up a source for it.

[SamuelTee]

First I tried to watch mp4 movies using MFXStream. That didn't work ... well, it did work ... but due to some lack of cpu or whatever power I only got 0.5fps (on some vids).


As I said, that didn't work. DivX and xvid... no problem. But mp4 ...:sniffle:

[SamuelTee]

Hey Guys,

Is there any way to get LIVE555 RTSP-Streams working? As I understand the mplayer.dll does not support this. Is there any dll around that does?

Alternative:
Is there any good alternative to the vlc-rtsp-streaming-server which is supported by xbmc?

Thnx in advance.

[elupus]

dvdplayer supports rtsp...

[voxxoff]

why are you transcoding? XBMC can play everything under the sun,

nope. Mine chokes on high action scenes in matroska (oggvorbis / (AVC) H.264 @5.1)

Transcoding is necessary, but streaming+transcoding would be better