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Hello, just started to code a channel, beed help for a simple plugin to show a live stream from a flash website.

 

I'll use this as a template to add more live streams to it.

 

could someone spend 10min to show me a plugin to stream this flash site: http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xio7e2?autoplay=1&hidePopoutButton=1

 

it should be fairly easy for someone who has done flash plugins.

 

Thxs for your help.

 

 

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Can you not get the live streams from the Dailmotion plugin already?

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Can you not get the live streams from the Dailmotion plugin already?


Incredible, one should think it would, but all the live streams from them don't seam to work. Most of the videos that work are the archive videos.

I also want to add more live stream channels but all of them (the ones that I've found) work over flash; that is why I just need a template for a static flash stream channel.. I'll put them in a list.

But really, isn't it fairly simple to make this plugin? Maybe I'm underestimating me and its harder than I thought?

I now that from that simple template I could publish a plugin more published.

I'd really appreciate any help I could get to start this.

Thxs again
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Actually flash based channels are probably the most complicated, and live streams (of other formats) are probably the second most complicated.  Not trying to scare you away, but a single template wouldn't work for multiple sites in this case either because all of the Site Configurations (required for flash based channels) are site specific.

LOTS of info on it here:  http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/channels/siteconfigs.html

There's also some other various dev type resources.  If you just want to get y our feet a bit wet check out the stuff on the dev blog, there are some good articles there that introduce you to the channel framework.

http://dev.plexapp.com/

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And you are correct, the Dailymotion channel doesn't work with the live streams.  Dailymotion runs a different sort of a setup for them and it doesn't seem to work with their API the same way as all the other videos do.

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I’ve been reading the documentation for it and try a few things but still haven’t nail it.


If you (or someone else) could do a basic plugin to it please post it so I can continue and expand from there. I know I’ll have to code every site preference and main menu, but at least the code to call a flash website will be relative the same.


See that the link I posted sends you to a web page only containing the flash stream.


Thanks again for your help.

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The Fox plugin uses Flash. You can find the plugin code on Github here.  It relies on an URL Service which resides in the Services.bundle and can be found here. The Site Configuration file is the bit that deals with grabbing the flash stream and is generally considered to be a PITA. For Fox the site config resides in the global SiteConfigurations.bundle. Check it out here.

Modifying an existing functional plugin to do what we want is the way most of us got started and it's a great way to learn. Feel free to ask questions along the way when you get stuck. Just don't expect anyone to do it for you  ;)

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