View Full Version : **REQUEST** - Update Sirius Script to work in US
bronco28
2008-06-09, 18:54
Hi,
I really miss the ability to stream my Sirius through XBMC. I would fix it myself if I could. I just think something changed in the way the website works. Search Sirius in this forum and you will see some information on what the actual problem is.
Thanks in advance.
try looking here:
Near the bottom of the page.
http://code.google.com/p/voinage-xbmc-plugins/
bakubaku
2008-06-09, 23:01
try looking here:
Near the bottom of the page.
http://code.google.com/p/voinage-xbmc-plugins/
Hey Voinage! I don't see my request for swedish media in that list?!
It`s not on there because i`m still adding the hundreds of categories manually ! MANUALLY!
I couldn`t parse them so i had to create each directory by hand, oh so very slowly.
But it`s about 95% done so relax.
I`m just nobbling the little easy ones from the list of requests and adding to the big ones slowly.
bakubaku
2008-06-09, 23:32
No problem Voinage. I knew I could count of you of course, I was just wondering why it wasn't on the list. And hey, if I could help you any way I'd gladly add those things manually myself! You're really doing a lot more work for us than we deserve. And you don't want money for it either...? Voinage, like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrappedin a vest...
Regards
bronco28
2008-06-11, 20:11
Can't wait!!!!! - Please let me know if you need beta tester or something....
jmancine
2008-12-25, 00:16
Howdy,
I've been working on trying to get a Sirius script working in XBMC and Boxee (www.boxee.tv).
Basically, I have taken components of various scripts that others have worked on...and have ended up with several configurations that work perfectly from login, through authentication, channel/category generation, etc, right up until the part where XBMC plays the stream. I can select the channels, and can confirm that a .STRM file is created with the proper URL for that channel. To confirm that the .STRM files contain accurate information, I paste them into just about any media player and they play fine, with ONE notable exception -- mplayer.
Mplayer is the only ASX capable media player I have tried that will not play these streams. If you try to cut/paste the URL for a Sirius ASX stream into Mplayer, it truncates the URL after about 270 characters, leaving off the last 25+ characters. Obviously it can not play the stream without the entire URL.
Unfortunately, XBMC's media player is based on the Mplayer core, which is probably why after the "Opening Stream" dialog is shown (with the full and proper URL), a "Terminating" dialog is shown (because the Mplayer core can not accept the long URL).
That's my theory, anyhow. :)
Any thoughts/suggestions?
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36748
This works fine
jmancine
2008-12-25, 21:42
Sorry, Voinage...I should have clarified that I'm trying to run the script outside of the XBOX environment (XBMC/Boxee on PC Windows and/or Linux), and the XBMCSirius script does not appear to be platform independent.
That being said, I am able to tweak it to run fine in Windows...but it will not play the streams.
What seems to be broken in Windows and Linux is the ability to pass the long URL from the .STRM file into the xbmc.Player() function...or as my theory goes, the ability of the built in media player to accept that URL.