Hi everyone,
I am new to Plex - after been using XBMC on my XBOX for some years now, it was time to move on to the HD area.
And Plex was my first choice with the nice Mac Mini hardware platform fitting perfectly in living room.
I am really please by Plex and would like to thank all the developers for their efforts!!
I have yesterday posted a question in the “General User Help” section: “[topic=“8950”]How to add .strm file to library?” [/topic] but had no reply, so maybe me question is better placed here.
I will try to describe also a bit better my problem. There is this website: http://tv.orf.at/zib2, of an Austrian Public Broadcaster, which has an on demand service of their late news shows (there is a link “ZIB 2 on demand” which opens via javascript a separate window with embedded player and the last 5 shows are available via a wmv stream). I have been able to extract the mms-streaming link, which is quite simple: mms://stream5.orf.at/zib2/zib2200_2009_08_28.wmv So, only the date changes.
Unfortunately I am not capable of building myself a plug-in for this (I started to take a look into it, but I am not yet there).
But for the time being I would just be happy to add to Plex somehow a .strm file, like I did under XBMC. There, as described in my previous post, I simply put this mms-link into a txt file, and changed the ending into .strm and by simply clicking on it, it streamed. As I knew the structure of the stream-link, I had just to change the date of the link and I put a couple of .strm files in a folder - not so elegant as a plug-in but it fulfilled my purposes.
So, my question - without building a plug-in, how best to tackle this - how to add to Plex a .strm file with this mms- link?
Please forgive my ignorance, I am just an interested user and not coder.
Many thanks in advance for any guidance in this respect and keep up the good work!!
EBob
reply in the first post
Also, I whipped up a quick tool which makes building those URL's a little easier. Once you know the URL you want to test, go here and paste it in. It will generate the strm file for you.
http://perlster.com/tools/plex/strm/
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