silverlight site config trouble + play button relative to horizontal center of screen

[godmonkee]

skyplayer.com

Just started trying to play the test video stream for sky player using a site config. (skyplayer.com uk only)

Site is [http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/detachedSampleStream.do](http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/detachedSampleStream.do)

I don't know how to do my site config for this unusual player. The problems I have are:

1. The player always fills the browser window apart from a black info bar 70 pixels high but entire width at the bottom of the screen.
2. Another button bar "floats" over the player at a fixed height from the bottom and only appears on a mouse move. It's horizontal position, is always centred, ie relative to the center of the screen. It has the play button on it 106 pixels from the bottom and 50 pixels left from the center.
3. I haven't actually got anything to show up in plex yet.

(a picture of the player is attached)

So this is what I have so far:

site config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><br />
<site site="http://skyplayer\.sky\.com/vod/page/detachedSampleStream\.do"<br />
	plugin="silverlight"<br />
  initialState="playing"<br />
  version="1.0">  <br />
  <crop x="0" y="-70" width="10000" height="70" /><br />
</site>

strm file:

plex://localhost/video/:/webkit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fskyplayer.sky.com%2Fvod%2Fpage%2FdetachedSampleStream.do

The above shows no errors when you run pms in terminal.... but plex just says "error while opening file" when I try and open the strm file. DO I have to do the rest of the sections of the site config? How do I do that with the centered button bar?
Also - there is no seek bar on this because it is live - is that a problem?

Thanks!

[godmonkee]

Ok so I realized by looking at some other plugins that I shouldn’t have been URL encoding the url in the site config XML file.



Now I get “opening stream detachedSamplStream.do” and I hear the sound but there is no picture. It seems whatever I put in for the states etc makes no difference.



Does anyone have any ideas?

[joead]

An old thread I know, but did you get anywhere with this? I’m a sky player user and would love to see a Plex plugin.