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Freebox TV listing (French ISP free.fr services)

Postby Guppy49 » 17 May 2009 00:04

This French provider has just updated the "box" software with UPnP support, and since this change I get error messages when trying to view a channel with VLC (using the Service discovery).
This is the error:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201&flavour=ld'. Check the log for details.
And from the Messages:
live555 error: SETUP of'video/MP2T' failed SETUP: cannot handle response: RTSP/1.0 453 Not Enough Bandwidth
live555 error: Nothing to play for rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=203&flavour=sd
main error: open of `rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=203&flavour=sd' failed: (null)
The bandwidth comment seems strange as we have plenty of bandwidth.
Running Windows 7 RC1 and VLC 1.0.0
I will check different forums like ADSL TV using VLC, and it seems I'm not alone with this problem.

Edit: I uninstalled vlc-1.0.0 and installed 0.9.8a and I no longer had the problem.
I uninstalled 0.9.8a and installed the RC: vlc-1.0.0-rc1/win32 - and the problem appeared again. I don't know if there is something in the settings to overcome this error. I underline that VLC 1.0.0 worked well before the Freebox software update.

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Re: Freebox TV listing (French ISP free.fr services)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 May 2009 00:36

live555 error: SETUP of'video/MP2T' failed SETUP: cannot handle response: RTSP/1.0 453 Not Enough Bandwidth

Complain to free :D
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Re: Freebox TV listing (French ISP free.fr services)

Postby Guppy49 » 17 May 2009 00:55

live555 error: SETUP of'video/MP2T' failed SETUP: cannot handle response: RTSP/1.0 453 Not Enough Bandwidth

Complain to free :D
Effectively I think the problem comes from Free, because now it works again, also with 1.0.0
A little test on www.speedzilla.net gives fine results as usual:
Débit descendant :
16330 kbit/s · 2041 ko/s
Débit montant :
960 kbit/s · 120 ko/s
Latence : 23.375 ms
Download of large file image.iso from http://test-debit.free.fr/ stabilizes at 1,53 Mb/s with the TV running (on the TV screen, not in VLC) - and this is a wifi connection. I could add, that when the problem with the French TV channels from Free, I didn't have a problem streaming Danish TV (needing about 1 Mb/s).
Hoping that one day VLC can replace WMP for using the UPnP option ? :wink: :wink:

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Re: Freebox TV listing (French ISP free.fr services)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 May 2009 01:09

Come and finish the UPnp code in VLC.
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