[theophile]

XBMC uses librtmp, right? I'm trying to get a handle on how to get XBMC to directly play authenticated streams I can access using rtmpdump. I know it's possible to tell XBMC to play a local file or stream using a URL and the web server. So I'd like to figure out what I have to pass the web server to get XBMC to play back the stream.

Specifically, this is in regards to the MLB.TV subscription service. Here's an example rtmpdump command that will access a stream and pipe it to stdout, with the specifics deleted, and linebreaks between flags:

Code:

rtmpdump

-f "LNX 10,0,22,87"

-o -

-r "rtmp://cp65670.edgefcs.net/etcetera"

-y "mp4:secure/mlbam/2011/03/01/etcetera"

-a "detailshere"

-s http://mlb.mlb.com/flash/mediaplayer/v4/RC91/MediaPlayer4.swf?v=4

-t "http://96.17.74.15:1935/etcetera"

-A 0

Is it possible to play a stream like this in XBMC? Thanks!

[bmcclure937]

BlueCop is the king of this!!

Isn't there an MLB.tv plugin already I thought there was.

[theophile]

BlueCop is the kind of this!!

Isn't there an MLB.tv plugin already I thought there was.

Not really. One was started but it's very hackish and uses a separate install of rtmpdump to write the stream to a local file which is played back by XBMC. I'd like to see if it's possible to grab the stream directly.

[jmarshall]

Theoretically anything that librtmp can do XBMC should be able to do. It may simply be a matter of hooking up the arguments in the appropriate way. If you could clearly detail exactly which arguments you need we can make sure they're available via properties (if they're not already available).

[BlueCop]

to play that in XBMC you would want it formatted like this

rtmp://cp65670.edgefcs.net/etcetera playpath=mp4ecure/mlbam/2011/03/01/etcetera app=detailshere swfurl=http://mlb.mlb.com/flash/mediaplayer/v4/RC91/MediaPlayer4.swf?v=4 tcurl=http://96.17.74.15:1935/etcetera swfvfy=true

you can test streams by saving the url in a txt file with the extension strm.

[theophile]

Fantastic! Thank you! I'll play around with this and see how it goes. Is it fair to assume that this documentation applies to XBMC as well?