PlexConnect breaks a channel's URL. Plex Web plays it okay

claude.speed · March 24, 2016, 4:21am

aTV: Apple TV 3 (A1469), firmware version 7.2
DNS on aTV: set to the IP of my PC (192.168.0.10) which runs PMS & PlexConnect
Local IP: same (192.168.0.10)
PC with PMS & PlexConnect is running Windows 10
PMS version: 0.9.16.3
PlexConnect version: downloaded 23.03.2016 at 20:00 from github. No code changes
Python version: 2.7.11

Contents of the 'Settings.cfg’:

[PlexConnect]
enable_plexgdm = False
ip_pms = 192.168.0.10
port_pms = 32400
enable_dnsserver = True
port_dnsserver = 53
ip_dnsmaster = 8.8.4.4
prevent_atv_update = True
enable_plexconnect_autodetect = False
ip_plexconnect = 192.168.0.10
hosttointercept = trailers.apple.com
port_webserver = 80
enable_webserver_ssl = True
port_ssl = 443
certfile = ./assets/certificates/trailers.pem
allow_gzip_atv = False
allow_gzip_pmslocal = False
allow_gzip_pmsremote = True
loglevel = High
logpath = .

Detail on the media file:

Hello!
First - thank you for a great work. Have been watching the movie collection on AppleTV flawlessly, now I want to connect a Russian IPTV service by means of a Plex channel and encountered a problem. The channel works absolutely okay in the Plex Web Player, unfortunately in PlexConnect only navigation works and stream opening gives an error. I digged a bit and found that for an unknown reason XMLConverter.py appends to the end of stream URL this: MEDIA_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND
,therefore breaking it for the playing.

This is channel plugin’s own log (can be clearly seen the difference in URL before and after going to PlexConnect):

2016-03-23 20:23:38,532 (1330) : WARNING (runtime:1065) - Generating a callback path for a function with no route: <function CreateChannelClipObject at 0x053EB3F0>
2016-03-23 20:23:38,536 (1330) : DEBUG (runtime:924) - Response: [200] MediaContainer, 1872 bytes
2016-03-23 20:23:41,766 (221c) : DEBUG (runtime:717) - Handling request GET /video/rodinatv/:/function/CreateChannelClipObject?function_args=Y2VyZWFsMQoxCmRpY3QKNQpiMXMxNwppbmNsdWRlX2NvbnRhaW5lcnUyNgrQn9C10YDQstGL0Lkg0LrQsNC90LDQuyBIRHM1CnRpdGxlczQ3Cmh0dHA6Ly9hcGkucm9kaW5hLnR2L2RsL2ljb25zLzMwMF8zMDBfMC8yNzIucG5nczUKdGh1bWJ1MjE0CjIyOjAwLTAyOjAwINCi0LXQu9C10LrQsNC90LDQuyDQlNC%2A0LHRgNC%2A0LUg0YPRgtGA0L4uCjAyOjAwLTAyOjIwINCd0L7QstC%2A0YHRgtC4LgowMjoyMC0wMjo1MCDQmtC%2A0L3RgtGA0L7Qu9GM0L3QsNGPINC30LDQutGD0L%40QutCwLgowMjo1MC0wMzo1NSDQltC40YLRjCDQt9C00L7RgNC%2A0LLQviEuCjAzOjU1LTA1OjAwINCc0L7QtNC90YvQuSDQv9GA0LjQs9C%2A0LLQvtGALgpzNwpzdW1tYXJ5czIKMjNzMwpjaWRyMAo_
2016-03-23 20:23:41,766 (221c) : DEBUG (runtime:814) - Found route matching /video/rodinatv/:/function/CreateChannelClipObject
2016-03-23 20:23:41,766 (221c) : DEBUG (runtime:125) - Calling function ‘CreateChannelClipObject’
2016-03-23 20:23:41,767 (221c) : DEBUG (networking:166) - Requesting ‘http://api.rodina.tv/data.xml?query=get_url&token=TnK2kGIcyLVxxdRSdmBuWqEYjkq9DGUs&key=“number|passwd”&value=“23|cdb6018dd99714b6124f5af98481f70f”’
2016-03-23 20:23:42,293 (221c) : INFO (logkit:16) - ----->>> FINAL URL: http://5.254.126.48:7559/3e59d74748ae167abb6c170da1f57ec7e8823e11df8e2f139a8a1341ded27616/1458789943/mv62Vq9C/hlsmain/272/146.m3u8
2016-03-23 20:23:42,295 (221c) : WARNING (runtime:1065) - Generating a callback path for a function with no route: <function CreateChannelClipObject at 0x053EB3F0>
2016-03-23 20:23:42,299 (221c) : DEBUG (runtime:924) - Response: [200] MediaContainer, 1872 bytes
2016-03-23 20:23:43,851 (112c) : DEBUG (runtime:717) - Handling request GET /video/rodinatv/:/function/CreateChannelClipObject?function_args=Y2VyZWFsMQoxCmRpY3QKNQpiMXMxNwppbmNsdWRlX2NvbnRhaW5lcnUyNgrQn9C10YDQstGL0Lkg0LrQsNC90LDQuyBIRHM1CnRpdGxlczQ3Cmh0dHA6Ly9hcGkucm9kaW5hLnR2L2RsL2ljb25zLzMwMF8zMDBfMC8yNzIucG5nczUKdGh1bWJ1MjE0CjIyOjAwLTAyOjAwINCi0LXQu9C10LrQsNC90LDQuyDQlNC%2A0LHRgNC%2A0LUg0YPRgtGA0L4uCjAyOjAwLTAyOjIwINCd0L7QstC%2A0YHRgtC4LgowMjoyMC0wMjo1MCDQmtC%2A0L3RgtGA0L7Qu9GM0L3QsNGPINC30LDQutGD0L%40QutCwLgowMjo1MC0wMzo1NSDQltC40YLRjCDQt9C00L7RgNC%2A0LLQviEuCjAzOjU1LTA1OjAwINCc0L7QtNC90YvQuSDQv9GA0LjQs9C%2A0LLQvtGALgpzNwpzdW1tYXJ5czIKMjNzMwpjaWRyMAo_MEDIA_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND

Apple TV gives a “An error has occured while playing the content” message.
Wireshark shows that PlexConnect gives to aTV broken URL in the XML.
The “key” final URL (with .m3u8) opens and plays in VLC in Windows with no problem.

Attaching “more detailed fresh” PlexConnect.log in 2 parts (sorry for being big):

http://pastebin.com/P3QLx7CY part 1
http://pastebin.com/0XEhscnA part 2

Thank you for your help!

baa · March 24, 2016, 4:53pm

Looks like an issue with unicode in the ratingKey…
The first error is flagged in your second log, line 3234:

21:09:04 XMLConverter: XML_ExpandLine - Error in Video:ratingKey::=|{{VAL_QUOTED(^PlexConnectRatingKey)}}=COPY|{{VAL_QUOTED(^PlexConnectRatingKey)}} =
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\PlexConnect\XMLConverter.py", line 564, in XML_ExpandLine
    res = getattr(CommandCollection, 'ATTRIB_'+cmd)(src, srcXML, param)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\PlexConnect\XMLConverter.py", line 986, in ATTRIB_VAL_QUOTED
    return quote_plus(unicode(key).encode("utf-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

claude.speed · March 25, 2016, 6:07am

I’ve just set rating_key everywhere in the channel code to a fixed non-cyrillic string and it works. A bit dirty, but who cares Thanks for pointing me out

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