Boxee

cannot play RTSP videos

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  • Severity:
    Major
  • Version:
    0.9.20
  • Operating System:
    Windows XP
  • Number of attachments:
    2

Description

for example:
Go to College Humor app and play a video from the latest feeds.

Result:
boxee doesn't playback video

Error appears in log:
16:10:11 T:5816 M:993832960 DEBUG: Error, could not open file rtsp://rtsp2.youtube.com/CigLENy73wIaHwmd_1eijG1NhBMYDSANFEgGUgx1c2VyX3VwbG9hZHMM/0/0/0/video.3gp

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Ami Ben-David [Boxee] added a comment -
app still doesn't playback video (only youtube links)
reproducible on boxee-0.9.20.9647
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Ami Ben-David [Boxee] added a comment - app still doesn't playback video (only youtube links) reproducible on boxee-0.9.20.9647
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Jack Deslippe added a comment - - edited
I can verify this Bug on 0.9.20.9816 on Karmic Koala.
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Jack Deslippe added a comment - - edited I can verify this Bug on 0.9.20.9816 on Karmic Koala.
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Michael Bastos added a comment -
It would be nice to add a feature where users can manually add their desired rtsp streams and nick name them as Channel 1 or Channel 2. I have a series of about 30 rtsp streams that I use on Karmic Koala that if I could add manually into Boxee I could forget about needing to start from the operating system and would have Boxee start up automatically on my TV computer. This is a must add for boxee to be taken serious in the media center/live tv stream realm.
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Michael Bastos added a comment - It would be nice to add a feature where users can manually add their desired rtsp streams and nick name them as Channel 1 or Channel 2. I have a series of about 30 rtsp streams that I use on Karmic Koala that if I could add manually into Boxee I could forget about needing to start from the operating system and would have Boxee start up automatically on my TV computer. This is a must add for boxee to be taken serious in the media center/live tv stream realm.
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PJ added a comment -
Yeah, its fairly pathetic it can't play rtsp: streams
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PJ added a comment - Yeah, its fairly pathetic it can't play rtsp: streams
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Michel added a comment -
Yep, pathetic is the right word...

RTSP is *the* protocol for streaming video on any internet network.

To give an example of what it could be used for, just in my country (France): our most advanced DSL/Fiber Internet provider offers what he calls "triple play" service: Internet + Phone + TV. The TV service is a complete TV service, all the local TV channels (terrestrial and cable channels), plus tens of either free or paying channels, from many countries.

They have been providing a dedicated box for that for years ( "Freebox Player", or before it was called "Freebox HD"). The user just plugs the network box to the phone line, the TV set on the "player" box using an HDMI cable, and that's it.

Now the point: they also offer, included for free, what they call "multi-TV" service. The TV channels can also be accessed from any computer using the RTSP protocol. For example, I can get HD TV on my PC screen, what I need is just run VLC.

It would be VERY COOL to put a box such as Boxee in another room, and connect not only to the Internet resources (which are sometimes too busy) but also the this service. What is needed would be... just the RTSP protocol.

I believe that they could sell tens or hundreds of thousands of such boxes only here (there are millions of customers for this service...). I would buy one, that's why I looked at the Boxee... <sigh>.
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Michel added a comment - Yep, pathetic is the right word... RTSP is *the* protocol for streaming video on any internet network. To give an example of what it could be used for, just in my country (France): our most advanced DSL/Fiber Internet provider offers what he calls "triple play" service: Internet + Phone + TV. The TV service is a complete TV service, all the local TV channels (terrestrial and cable channels), plus tens of either free or paying channels, from many countries. They have been providing a dedicated box for that for years ( "Freebox Player", or before it was called "Freebox HD"). The user just plugs the network box to the phone line, the TV set on the "player" box using an HDMI cable, and that's it. Now the point: they also offer, included for free, what they call "multi-TV" service. The TV channels can also be accessed from any computer using the RTSP protocol. For example, I can get HD TV on my PC screen, what I need is just run VLC. It would be VERY COOL to put a box such as Boxee in another room, and connect not only to the Internet resources (which are sometimes too busy) but also the this service. What is needed would be... just the RTSP protocol. I believe that they could sell tens or hundreds of thousands of such boxes only here (there are millions of customers for this service...). I would buy one, that's why I looked at the Boxee... <sigh>.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee] added a comment -
Issue closed as Won't Fix.
Boxee for Windows/Mac/Linux has been discontinued and is no longer supported.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee] added a comment - Issue closed as Won't Fix. Boxee for Windows/Mac/Linux has been discontinued and is no longer supported.

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    Reporter:
    Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
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