I have been looking around the forum to see if it was possible to play HTTP Live Streaming video in a plugin. I have not been able to successfully create a VideoItem that would play a m3u8 source but it seems like it should be possible since i thought the PMS uses this formate to stream to iOS clients.
I’ve only quickly tried adding a VideoItem with two parameters as follows:
.Append(Function(
VideoItem(‘http://www.example.com/videostream.m3u8’, title=‘My Video’)
))
Also I cannot find the documentation for the Plex API functions. I looked on the dev.plexapp.com but can’t find the prototypes for all methods. Any help would be appreciated getting an m3u8 source to play in a plugin.
did you find a solution in the end? I need to view a HTTP stream in plea. Thank you!
I think you’re better off without the “function” in there:
dir.append(VideoItem(my_url, title=‘my title’))
Have you had any success in getting this to work? I can’t seem to figure it out.
The National Geographic Plugin now uses m3u8 streams for both the iOS and Desktop clients:
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[]https://github.com/plexinc-plugins/NationalGeographic.bundle
[]https://github.com/plexinc-plugins/Services.bundle/blob/master/Contents/URL%20Services/National%20Geographic/ServiceCode.pys
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Thanks for the examples. Does the ServiceCode.pys file need to be inside of the Services.bundle or can I add a URL Services folder inside of my plugin? The [URL Services documentation](http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/channels/services/url.html) reads like I should be able to put it inside my plugin bundle but I can't get Plex to recognize it.
It can be in the plugin. I did something similar for Sound Cloud (https://github.com/IanDBird/SoundCloud.bundle). When you add the URL Service and modify the plist, you need to make sure PMS is restarted after added. I think PMS only scans the contents of the available plugins at startup, or when they are physically installed via Plex Online
Hi there,
can anybody help me to add the tuner/channel of some VU+ Solo 2 (Enigma 2) to Plex. I have bought a Fire TV. Everything works with Plex from homeserver ... photo, music, video ... now the next challenge is to add Live TV. If this works a Core i7 with Plex Server will have to feed a bunch of some Fire TV, some XBOX 360 and a XBOX One at home. I would be glad if this works. Any idea what to do.
Thanks in advance.
Ok guys ... as nobody makes an attempt to help me, I had to find a solution on my own. Search Dreambox.bundle with Google https://github.com/sander1/Dreambox.bundle . Simply Copy it to the Plugin Folder and restart Plex. Then you will find an entry at the left. Clicking there you will face your Live TV favourites. Thats all.
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