RTE Player on Boxee

aledoux · 26-06-2009 12:29pm #1

Hi All,

I have developed a player like the BBC iplayer for Boxee. That means that anybody using Boxee (Windows, Mac, Linux, AppleTV or other) will be able to watch all the shows in fullscreen available from the RTE Player.
At the moment, features available are:
- Highlights displayed on Home page and ready to be played.
- TV Section contains Latest, Last Chance, Categories and A-Z
- For all of those, it plays only the last show available.

What I need to work on still:
- Display previous show available
- Add Radio section with all RTE Podcast
- Add Search functionality.

I am waiting on Boxee Community to see how I can make that available from Boxee repository.

Scruff · 26-06-2009 6:05pm

fair play. will it work on xbmc too?

kdobey · 27-06-2009 7:32am

sounds great. I hoped this would happen but didn't think it would. Do u work for rte or do u have cooperation/blessing? I had wondered my self about how to reverse engineer the interface (since its flash).

Do tell?

aledoux · 27-06-2009 9:55am

No I don't work for RTE

Just installed Boxee on my new AppleTV and then saw that BBC iPlayer was on it so why not RTE Player.
So I started investigating it and did it myself. I have the repository in place on my own server so anybody that runs boxee will soon be able to test it. All contributions or comments will be welcome.

Scruff, As for XBMC I didn't look yet if it would work but why not as Boxee is based on XBMC. Once I am happy with the Boxee version, I will look into XBMC.

aledoux · 27-06-2009 12:05pm

Here is a preview of what I have at the moment.

RTE Player on Boxee Preview

kaisersose77 · 28-06-2009 2:42pm

looks great

what format are the rte player streams? flash video or h264?

just wondering as theres a new 100euro media player coming out this week called xtreamer which supports h264 and flash (but not the on2 vp6 codec yet) and it would be cool to have rte player working with it.

http://xtreamer.net/

Scruff · 29-06-2009 9:49am

that xtreamer looks very interesting. If it lives up to its promise for €99 its definitely a better buy than the likes of the WD tv.

aledoux · 01-07-2009 8:01am

Ok some update on what I have now. Rather than focusing on RTE Player only, I have integrated RTE, TV3, SkyNews and City Channel in the same app. I have some other plans that I need to investigate before I say anything.
At the moment it is working great and I should have a version ready for testing soon.

marathont · 01-07-2009 9:29am

This sounds really cool, maybe you could put tg4.tv in there as well.

Ron DMC · 01-07-2009 10:15am

marathont wrote: »

This sounds really cool, maybe you could put tg4.tv in there as well.

Yes please.

eddiem74 · 01-07-2009 12:35pm

Would this also be able to integrate with windows media center?

Sorry if a silly question, don't know much about boxee...:o

Thomas-G · 02-07-2009 11:23am

That's well cool, good work, XBMC would be great too!

Lemo · 02-07-2009 2:47pm

RTE should give you a medal but they'll probably try to have you arrested instead :-)

How did you get around the fact that the RTE streams are encrypted?

By the way, I'm also a Boxee on ATV user so happy to test...

dmck · 27-07-2009 10:38am

good work, i was hoping somebody would develop this.

KeRbDoG · 01-08-2009 3:26pm

Lemo wrote: »

RTE should give you a medal but they'll probably try to have you arrested instead :-)

How did you get around the fact that the RTE streams are encrypted?

By the way, I'm also a Boxee on ATV user so happy to test...

Second that, got Boxee on my ATV if you need testers

irishguy · 06-08-2009 7:41pm

Hey how have you been getting on with this? Is it ready by any chance

Dorsanty · 06-08-2009 10:25pm

Me want too!!

Been all quiet on the boxee forum too link

rom · 19-08-2009 11:18pm

pitty, looks like vapourware

jeromeof · 28-08-2009 10:45pm

Alexis,
I would be interested in this plugin too. Hope you get around to finishing it. I see you have a France24 boxee plugin and a repo for it, would you not just put your current plugin (without the TV3 stuff) up, so that some beta testers can try it?

Thanks

Jerome

viking · 10-09-2009 2:03pm

Any update on this? Would love to have this app on my Boxee

beaker · 17-09-2009 10:51am

I too would love to use this. I hope you get a second wind and finish it.

Go wan, go wan, go wan, go wan, go wan.......

shucks11 · 07-10-2009 2:34pm

This would be fantastic - hope we get to see it sometime! Boxee is great but we need some good streaming content we can access from ireland!

Talisman · 07-10-2009 5:35pm

I had been looking at creating a plugin for Plex but haven't had the time to investigate what's involved with the RTMPE protocol. Processing the XML feed is easy enough.

irishguy · 09-10-2009 9:46pm

Seems to be done, just saw it retweeted (by @boxee )they are looking for testers next week.

kaisersose77 · 09-10-2009 10:21pm

looks like its dkane and not the op behind it

dkane · 11-10-2009 4:31pm

Hey,
Just to clarify. I have been working on a separate RTE Player app. Hope to launch it to my repository (dir.nexthop.ie) early next week.

dkane · 13-10-2009 7:37pm

Beta version of RTE Player Boxee App just launched
see: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=12363

Comment/Bug reports welcome

Dorsanty · 15-10-2009 10:25pm

Happily using this now. Just finished watching 6:01 news, also did a bit of navigating the menus.

Thanks dkane

hecmail · 18-10-2009 3:28pm

I've been hoping someone would develop this.

If you need any help testing/working on the app let me know.

dkane · 18-10-2009 9:12pm

Work away on testing it. Its available to download from my DEV repository.
I have't had much time to do much more with it the past few days. I need to get the javascript for the controls working properly and fix a couple of things in the UI.

Very interested in any feedback anyone has on the app.

Dorsanty · 19-10-2009 10:18pm

@dkane : Do you have plans to support more of the topbar menu items i.e. My Videos and others? Seems a bit low on space for more then 2 or so extra items over the current but I see you listed scaling in your known issues so my question might be covered by that issue.

I've only found one or two navigation transition issues which also seem to match your known issues list.

Please let us know when you release any updates to the app and great work so far!

dkane · 19-10-2009 10:59pm

I don't currently have plans to implement My Videos or Categories.
I have to manually maintain a list of shows for the A to Z, I haven't found any easy way to pull this list from the RTE website. Storing Category information for each show would just make it that bit more complex and harder to manage manually.
I haven't even looked at the My Videos page. I guess this info is stored in cookies but I haven't had time to look into it.

Dorsanty, does the auto play work for you or do you have to press play twice to get the videos to play?

Dorsanty · 20-10-2009 12:24am

I've had no problems with the video starting once I select play in boxee.

I haven't looked into Boxee app development myself and what you seem to have to do looks painful for the A-Z list. Are there debugging tools out there to debug compiled flash apps i.e. can you see if the player app is downloading an xml list of categories or show a-z lists or even see what calls it is making to the server at rte?

dkane · 20-10-2009 9:30am

RTE Player uses Atom feeds to generate each page.
I have just worked out the format for the a to z pages so in my next version it will pull the shows automatically (I won't need to keep the list updated)

Finding some time to work on the new version is the next problem!

dkane · 20-10-2009 11:08am

Some small bug fixes made.
Fixed the sizing of the top menu items (Look fine on my 4:3 screen. Will try different monitors later when I get a chance)
Fixed the problem with the A to Z button only working the first time it is clicked.

You need to download version 1.0.1 of the app to get these fixes.

docentore · 10-01-2010 3:52pm

anyway of installing this on xbmc?

Alatar · 19-01-2010 11:34am

Same question. Any sign of an XBMC version?

Sneakee · 19-01-2010 2:16pm

Would love to see the XBMC version of this as well, would kick ass, I think XBMC is far more popular than Boxee. Hopefully it can be worked on and not end as vaporware!

kaisersose77 · 19-01-2010 7:36pm

its encrypted flash so not possible to stream it on xbmc

Sneakee · 19-01-2010 8:03pm

What about the BBC iPlayer for XBMC, isn't that encrypted Flash as well?

Sneakee · 20-01-2010 10:36am

Put forward a request to see if its possible to do in the XBMC forum.
At least to prove if it could be done or not.

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67855

Hoping since the RTE player went international for some of its programs that it may finally interest some people in porting it onto the XBMC. Fingers crossed.

kaisersose77 · 20-01-2010 10:59pm

Xbmc doesnt support rtmpe streams (bbc iplayer uses rtmp atm)

Sneakee · 21-01-2010 10:05am

I guess that's that so. Fair enough. Disappointing.
I guess the Boxee platform is the only possible solution for an app. I hope with the Boxee Box from D-Link on the way, that someone developes an updated RTE app for it.
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10429585-269.html
Either to get this in combo with my existing Xbox or get a new expensive HTPC to work as Boxee/XBMC and use browser.

McAlban · 25-01-2010 4:59pm

Anyone Know how you would go about creating a Plugin for TunerFree MCE for RTÉ Player?

MrGarak · 20-02-2010 5:56pm

Would love to have it on XBMC, shame.

donnyd · 10-06-2010 12:22am

Am over in England at the moment and want to watch play back of gaelic football games. For some reason my computer cannot connect to server. Used to work fine but RTE seem to have some new format where even worldwide programmes can no longer be viewed. Anyone know anything about this?

KeRbDoG · 10-06-2010 12:28am

Yup, RTE have locked out their RTE Player and some streams to non-Irish IPs.
Easy way to get around not having an Irish IP is to use an Irish VPN

An easy way is to use a pay-for VPN service.
Linky to one called OverPlay in my sig, yes, it costs a few quid a month but yea get to use all Irish only services like RTE player and also US based services like Hulu

That linked service is also super easy to setup too

/plug

donnyd · 10-06-2010 3:00am

Linky to one called OverPlay in my sig.

Does that VPN interfere with your normal broadband in any way? I have heard that there can be problems with some of them. Whats your view?

donnyd · 10-06-2010 3:24am

Providing of course you;re not working for them.

KeRbDoG · 10-06-2010 10:12am

donnyd wrote: »

Providing of course you;re not working for them.

Don't work for them, but the link in the ref link is a referral linky

You turn the VPN on and off as you require it and allows yea to select the country yea want to VPN into to 'pretend' your in that country to fool services like BBC iPlayer (obviously of no use to you) and RTE Player.
Very easy on Mac OSX and Windows as its a simple application that does everything.

btw, there is a lot more VPN services like OverPlay but none that I've found to be as easy and fool proof

donnyd · 10-06-2010 2:45pm

cool man thanks. have signed up. do they send out pack or something to get it started. whats the deal with it? they wanted a delivery address. does it take long to set up etc?

RTE Player on Boxee

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