Hi,
has anyone considered developing a Plex-plugin for hockeystreams.com?
Hockeystreams.com offers live and on-demand streaming of NHL games in HD-quality. Streaming from their website works great. They offer streams in flash and wmv (and an “iStream” for iDevices).
It would be great to have these streams available through the Plex server. There is already a working XBMC plugin available, so the Plex version should not be far away 
More info here:
http://www5.hockeystreams.com/forums/homebrew_and_devices
BR
+1 for any hockey plugin from me.
Unfortunately I can´t develop a plugin, but it would be awesome if there was one.
And I didn´t even know this page (I have a Gamecenter Live subscription). Got to check it out.
Thanks.
I have a plugin written that uses the iDevice urls and scraps for games and links and what not. It’s a bit rough around the edges but it currently lets you choose quality and location and set user and pass as preferences, and pick live or archived games.
The main 2 issues I am seeing right now are HD streams kill Plex. Just flash out crashes. SD Streams work decently but there seems to be a bit of stuttering every 8-12 seconds. I know that this version of HockeyStreams uses HTTP Live Streaming so it’s possible that this stuttering is related to it loading the next stream segement but I am not entirely sure at the moment. I can post it here if either of you are interested. The only thing to note is that you need to subscribed to the iDevice streaming or it will not work.
I don’t think I will be looking to work on the Flash portion of the site as from what I understand the Windows version of PMS and PMC do not stream flash content from the server to client (someone feel free to correct me if I am wrong) and thats all that I have to work with (not too mention I don’t have a subscription :).
Cheers!
I can’t really shed any light on the problems with the HTTP live streams but in general they are preferable to having to transcode flash content. FYI, the newest release of PMS for windows (0.9.5.2) is capable of transcoding webkit content.
Mikedm139: does that mean I should be able to make a channel that uses a Flash based player as the source within Windows (PMS and PMC)?
Just want to clarify before I go change my subscription within HockeyStreams.
You should be able to although in general, the HLS streams are preferred over Flash content. Before you switch your subscription and start writing a site config, it would be worthwhile trying to track down the troubles with the HLS streams. If you can post the PMS, Plex, and plugin logs hopefully they’ll reveal the source of the issues.
I didn't notice anyone had answered this thread.
I'm interested in your plugin. Please post it here :)
I actually ended up redoing it completely and made it OS X based. The reason for this is because I could not for the life of me get plex to play a HLS properly and I ended up with an applescript.
The plugin now pulls the rss feed for the current day and lists the games. It also attempts to parse out the archive but is a tad broken at the moment. When it finds a stream it uses an applescript to launch QuickTime X, send it the url and put it in full screen. Quicktime in windows does not support HLS
I will be updating this plugin next season (provided nothing changes from hockeystreams.com) and will see if I can modify it to send the stream urls to a roku device as well (I should mention they do offer their own service for roku..but its more pricey than just the iDevice streaming option).
Any chance you could post your plugin or share your code? I was considering creating a plugin for exactly this purpose.
Any chance this could be working on a Plex Mediaserver on Ubuntu?
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