Vlcplayer Update for Image Pcd 5.1

  • Hi,


    The following items will improve plugin Vlcplayer and the other plugins using Vlcplayer.


    All these items are available from the image addon downloads.


    Tested with vlc 1.1.4.


    Please do the following steps :-


    1. Uninstall vlcplayer via Addon Manager


    2. Install from Addon Download -> SourceUpdate :-


    update-1-pcd5.1-dm500plus_1.0_powerpc.ipk


    3. Install :-


    vlcplayer-enigma2-testimage_1.0_powerpc.ipk


    4. Install (if you want to test) new Plugins-Lite :-


    enigma2-plugin-extensions-myvideovlc_0.1-r0_all.ipk
    enigma2-plugin-extensions-dailymotionvlc_1.0_all.ipk


    5. Restart enigma2.


    Regards, pcd.

  • hi pcd


    I tested the new vlc and it works with VLC 1.1.7. I tested streaming a film from the hard drive and it played nicely without any buffering.
    I tried to test the newtube, daily motion etc but I haven't been able to change the VLC server. There is no option for it in these plugins. I set the default server in VLC player settings but it always chooses vlc server on laptop.


    The new vlc plugins don't work with older vlc version - 0.9.9.

  • I have not changed newtube. You wrote before that it worked ?


    Why cannot you use the laptop as server ?


    The plugin uses the first server listed in vlcplayer. Change the server order in vlcplayer - if you wish.

  • Yes, youtube, dailymotion work with my vlc 0.9.9 with the old plugins.


    With this new version, they either don't work at all or there is a lot of stuttering and helium voices - like in Alvin and the Chipmunks film :) on the same 0.9.9 vlc.


    I then created the new vlc server with vlc 1.1.7 on my windows pc and tested only streaming a film and it worked. I haven't been able to test other plugins because of the lack of 'change vlc server' option. Maybe if I erased the laptop server it would work but I didn't bother.

  • As I wrote - it takes the first server in vlcplayer. I can put in newtube and others the config for vlc server choice - but it is a lot of coding change. Because the item appears in many places ! I am not sure how many people use these plugins.

  • I erased laptop 0.9.9 vlc server and created windows vlc 1.1.7 server and newtube, dailymotion works great! No buffering, no stuttering, sound is good and all videos seem to work.


    Then I changed it to laptop vlc 0.9.9 server and in dailymotion videos sound is good, there is some video stuttering from time to time and all in all it is watchable.
    In newtube, sound is squeaky in all videos - helium voicesand it stutters all the time. Video seems to be OK and all videos play but the problem is sound.


    Don't worry about server choice. I never use windows vlc server and I guess not so many people have 2 or more servers. I just wanted to test newer vlc for pc and that's why I wrote that.

  • Yes. As the HELP button says - tested with vlc 1.1.4. :)


    There are some good music videos in myvideo - particularly I like Iz - somewhere over the rainbow ! :grinning_squinting_face:

  • I did some digging and found that older VLC version have a bug when changing audio sample frequency during transcoding.


    So, if a video has 44100 frequency (most dailymotion videos) and in the VLC settings you choose 44100, audio is fine.


    If a video has 22050 frequency (most youtube videos) and in the VLC config settings you choose 44100, audio is high-pitched and too fast.


    To solve this problem, I added 22050 in VlcServerConfig.py, chose it and tried to play youtube videos and, voila, it works !!


    When I want to watch dailymotion, I choose 44100 and it works.

  • Hi,


    Very interesting. Thank you for the information.


    Some time ago - I made a plugin SVTPlayer. The playback picture is good - but the sound does not work.


    I will look at it again. How do you get the actual audio rate ? From vlc on pc ?


    Cheers, pcd.

  • Yes, you can use VLC and go to tools - codec information and in audio section you will see sample rate. Alternatively, you can use media player classic and see even more detailed info about audio/video used.


    I downloaded a couple of videos from youtube and dailymotion using jdownloader and compared the sample rate and saw they were different. So what I had read before about older vlc versions bug made sense so I edited the config and after that it worked.


    If you try to play dailymotion videos using 22050 you get Darth Wader voices and audio is late. If you play youtube videos using 44100 you get helium voices and sound is too fast. :grinning_squinting_face:


    Now I need to figure out why video in dailymotion stutters a bit and in youtube it is smooth.

  • Yes, I saw it and I didn't encounter this problem with python.


    Regarding jerky playback of dailymotion files, it is because they are mostly in mp4 format and older vlc versions have this problem.

  • Yes, that explains it.


    I only tried with 1.1.4.


    Do you know if Balkanika Tv can be streamed to pc and the videos can be downloaded ?

  • Is it possible to add Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro to youtube region?


    I tried putting:


    ("rs", _("rs")),
    ("hr", _("hr")),
    ("ba", _("ba")),
    ("me", _("me"))


    in ConfigSelection bu when I press yellow I get connection error.
    Maybe these regions don't exist in youtube but I don't know how to check.

  • Ok, I will look into it.


    Regarding Ali's Rabbit - please try this version :-


    18+ PornRabbit for HD Dreamboxes


    You should be able to download to your dreambox share folder (for example /media/hdd/movie). The file will actually download to the pc.


    Then you can play the .mp4 file with plugin vlcplayer as usual.


    To play directly from the Rabbit plugin - I need to change to code (small change).


    Cheers, pcd.

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von pcd ()


  • Sorry, these countries are not specifically available in the api. See here (look for RegionID) :-


    http://code.google.com/apis/yo…html#Searching_for_Videos


    Nearest country available is CZ.


    Cheers, pcd.