2007-07-09, 08:23 PM
David Wrote:Ubu,Hi David,
One of the features that I like in UbuStream is the ability to turn network streams into channels. I access GB-PVR through EWA almost exclusively. Is this also supported in the RSS enhancement?
You should be able to use EWA to access the stations created by the RSS feed feature in the same way you access any UbuStream station. Since EWA uses VLC for playback, the usual restrictions apply (if VLC can't handle the stream format, for whatever reason, that particular stream won't work).
When an Rss feed is read by UbuStream, it creates a group with the name of the feed and then, for each item in the feed, creates a station. The media format of the station is determined by the type of enclosure in the feed. Popular video formats are mp4, m4v, wmv, flv, avi and, for audio, mp3. VLC can play the majority of these streams.
If you choose to use the "download to file" option, I'd imagine you'd get smoother playback with EWA since you'd be using less network bandwidth. (ie. When playing a stream, your gbpvr system is both receiving the stream from the web site and streaming it to your EWA client at the same time. If it's playing a file, it's just dong the EWA streaming part.) It's also possible that, for some enclosures, VLC will successfully play the file where it has problems playing the stream.
I don't use EWA myself, so this is all a bit hypothetical. :o Please let me know if you hit EWA-specific problems using the new RSS feature and I'll try to resolve them.
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