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Posted: **05 Apr 2021 00:32**

Since a while, freebox.luac doesn't works anymore for french Free ISP tv broadcast.

This is relative to vlc.stream() which returns nil

I'v try to find a workaround with vlc.net.connect_tcp(), vlc.net is nil

Is this normal, since when have things been going like this ?

Thx
Spark

Posted: **05 Apr 2021 08:28**

Since the connection fails.

Posted: **05 Apr 2021 15:15**

Here more informations:

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-- Extension description
function descriptor()
    return { title = "Test" }
end

function main()

  local conn = vlc.net.connect_tcp("http://wwww.google.fr", 80)

  if conn then 
    vlc.msg.info("Conn OK")
  else
    vlc.msg.info("Conn KO")
  end

end

Log:

lua error: Error while running script C:\Users\Spark\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\sd\spark_test.lua, function main(): ...sers\Spark\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\sd\spark_test.lua:8: attempt to index field 'net' (a nil value)

Posted: **05 Apr 2021 15:40**

The "stream" I want to open is "http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u", this link works great (if your ISP is "Free" in France www.free.fr)

Posted: **05 Apr 2021 17:34**

README.txt

Net
---
----------------------------------------------------------------
/!\ NB: this namespace is ONLY usable for interfaces and extensions.
---
----------------------------------------------------------------

So you cannot use it within SD script.

Posted: **05 Apr 2021 18:02**

can you link me the REAL readme.txt please ?

https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc ... README.txt is broken

Thx !!

Posted: **05 Apr 2021 19:05**

The Lua "README.txt" for current VLC 3 can be found here: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 44#p497170

Posted: **06 Apr 2021 22:58**

Hello !

More informations about my stream problem :

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function main
  local m3ustream = vlc.stream('http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u') -- NOT WORKING ???

  if m3ustream then
    vlc.msg.dbg("stream OK")
  else
    vlc.msg.dbg("stream KO")
  end

  local m3u_line = m3ustream:readline()
  vlc.msg.dbg(m3u_line)
  if m3u_line ~= "#EXTM3U" then
      return nil
  end

end

main debug: looking for services_discovery module matching "lua": 9 candidates
main debug: set config option: lua-sd to freebox
main debug: using services_discovery module "lua"
main debug: creating access: http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u
main debug: (path: \\mafreebox.freebox.fr\freeboxtv\playlist.m3u)
main debug: looking for access module matching "http": 27 candidates
http debug: resolving mafreebox.freebox.fr ...
http debug: outgoing request: GET /freeboxtv/playlist.m3u HTTP/1.1 Host: mafreebox.freebox.fr Accept: */* Accept-Language: fr User-Agent: VLC/3.0.12 LibVLC/3.0.12 Range: bytes=0-
http debug: incoming response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:48:31 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive
main debug: using access module "access"
main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "prefetch,cache_block": 24 candidates
prefetch debug: using 16777216 bytes buffer, 16777216 bytes read
main debug: using stream_filter module "prefetch"
main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "any": 24 candidates
playlist debug: found valid M3U playlist
main debug: using stream_filter module "playlist"
main debug: stream filter added to 000001a4866934c0
main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "any": 24 candidates
main debug: no stream_filter modules matched
lua debug: stream OK
lua error: Error while running script C:\Users\Spark\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\sd\freebox.lua, function main(): ...:\Users\Spark\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\sd\freebox.lua:106: bad argument #1 to 'dbg' (string expected, got nil)

prefetch debug: end of stream

The stream object m3ustream is not nil => Display "stream OK" in debug console.

But when I want to read the first line with m3ustream:readline(), it returns nil !!!

What am I doing wrong ? The playlist seams to be fetched !

Posted: **06 Apr 2021 23:21**

The playlist url http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u

returns :

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,1 - TF1 (TNT)
rtsp://192.168.0.31/fbxdvb/stream?tsid=6&nid=8442&sid=1537&frontend=1
#EXTINF:0,2 - France 2 (auto)
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201
#EXTINF:0,2 - France 2 (HD)
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201&flavour=hd
#EXTINF:0,2 - France 2 (standard)
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201&flavour=sd
#EXTINF:0,2 - France 2 (bas débit)
rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/fbxtv_pub/stream?namespace=1&service=201&flavour=ld
#EXTINF:0,2 - France 2 (TNT)
...
...
...

Posted: **07 Apr 2021 16:01**

The http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u link does not work for me.
The old "freebox.lua" script: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc- ... reebox.lua

Posted: **07 Apr 2021 16:57**

The link works only if your ISP is "Free ('www.free.fr)" in France !
This is a special url wich returns iptv (and TNT streams if the TV player is connected to an antenna) urls to watch TV on PC.

You've just to open a network stream http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u and here you are !

But I want something more easy. (and parse the long TV streams into categories : HD, SD, TNT, IPTV, etc...)

I've put a copy of the playlist on http://www.frachebois.net/playlist.m3u if you want to test ! (but the streams won't works unless you are a "Free" subscriber)

Posted: **07 Apr 2021 17:01**

The http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u link does not work for me.
The old "freebox.lua" script: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc- ... reebox.lua

The old freebox.lua script doesn't work anymore for 2 reasons :
- vlc.stream() is broken
- logos retrieving in the script can't work because the pages urls have been changed since 2010... so the html has changed too... => It can't retrieve anything

Posted: **07 Apr 2021 17:06**

There is a hack : https://www.triades.net/9-blog/20-plugi ... 3-0-x.html wich provide an adapted script, but the playlist retrieving is disabled ! It's a static list.
You can see it a the end of : http://www.triades.net/downloads/freebox-static.lua

And in this static file, the TNT streams are missing... I've just updated the script with my own playlist.m3u returned by http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u (and if my TV player IP change, it will not work, I will update the script again...

Example of TNT stream :

#EXTINF:0,1 - TF1 (TNT)
rtsp://192.168.0.31/fbxdvb/stream?tsid=6&nid=8442&sid=1537&frontend=1

192.168.0.31 is my TV player IP connected to a TNT antenna.

Posted: **07 Apr 2021 19:38**

I'm in touch with a VLC dev, it seems to be a BUG in VLC 3.0.12 (and previous). vlc.stream() seams broken for m3u

Posted: **08 Apr 2021 04:59**

It seems that the web server is the problem !

HTTP headers :

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 02:45:15 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: close 50f #EXTM3U #EXTINF:0,1

50f ??? WTF ??

I think it's why vlc.stream() can't parse the playlist !

Posted: **08 Apr 2021 21:34**

I found the problem, this is due to chunked HTTP1.1 transfert mode
Sending HTTP/1.0 returns the playlist content without parasites characters.

I've now a pure lua/vlc implementation of vlc.stream() wich works well (and use vlc.net within an extension)

Posted: **09 Apr 2021 22:45**

Problem solved ! 50f is a chunk hexadecimal length from HTTP/1.1 standard when "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" HTTP HEADER is used.

my HTTP parser is now finished and handle trunks. My retreived content is clean

Posted: **11 May 2021 19:12**

Hi,
There are two computers at my home. One is a desktop with Intel Core i5 at 2.5 GHz and Windows 10 Family Version 2004.
VLC 3.0.13 Vetirani is installed and the link http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u to look at the TV from the french ISP (FREE) works fine;

The second is a tower with Intel Core i7 at 3.6 GHz and Windows 10 Professional version 20H2.
VLC 3.0.13 Vetirani is installed and the same link lets the screen black and an orange band runs from left to right and right to left indefinitly on the state line.

Anybody has an idea ?
Regards,
pierrealain6913.

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