VLM as VOD solution for Amino STB

[Kris]

Hello,

I'm trying to setup VLC/VLM for Windows to act as a VOD server for our Amino STB. I've added few files to the VLM using telnet. They are playable on other PC using VLC, but they are not playable on Amino. I've received the information that the VideoLAN's RTSP server is based around RTP, which is not supported by our amino (only RTSP using UDP as the transport is supported).

Is there some way to change it from RTP to UDP or it will be implemented in the future release?
How else can I build the VOD server for Amino using VLC/VLM?

[paul_ca]

the update version of live.com library used by VLC can support RTSP/UDP, so I think VLC will support this RTSP/UDP in future release.

[AC]

Anyone have an update on this? This would be a very exciting feature to have.

[The DJ]

It's currently not supported.
It should be easily implementable, but as always, time is the issue.

Ways to fasttrack this:
1. Donate an amino to a VLC developer in return for this feature
2. Pay a VLC developer

[Guest]

It's still not work?

[Riderkz]

Hello,

I'm trying to setup VLC/VLM for Windows to act as a VOD server for our Amino STB. I've added few files to the VLM using telnet. They are playable on other PC using VLC, but they are not playable on Amino. I've received the information that the VideoLAN's RTSP server is based around RTP, which is not supported by our amino (only RTSP using UDP as the transport is supported).

Is there some way to change it from RTP to UDP or it will be implemented in the future release?
How else can I build the VOD server for Amino using VLC/VLM?

Same the situation...
Looks like the problem never be solved.
The question was asked about 1 year ago...
Is anybody here?

[dionoea]

i guess that DJ's answer hasn't changed since last year

[Thomas Huusom Christensen]

RTSP/UDP would be a great feature for settop box developers, since most of them utilize this protocol combination. I understand that the live.com library supports this and so VLC should be able to gain this feature by upgrading to the latest version.

Anyone who can tell me how this could be done?

If this is no a trivial task then how much would it cost to get this done by a vlc developer?

Donating a settop box shouldn't be necessary. VLC would become a rtsp/udp client I would guess. When it comes to testing we would be happy to try it out on both amino and kreatel.

Cheers

Thomas

[Riderkz]

Anyone who can tell me how this could be done?

If this is no a trivial task then how much would it cost to get this done by a vlc developer?

Very good question

[regenbauma]

Id be happy to donate an Amino box to someone that would let me be able to use VLM/RTSP to drive VOD on an amino stb. How long would this process take you think ?

[pol]

is it possible to have some kind of answer ?

Many tankx !!

[dionoea]

Streaming RTSP from VLC to Amino boxes was fixed 1 or 2 weeks ago in the developement version. You can give it a try here: http://nightlies.videolan.org

[goodini]

Streaming RTSP from VLC to Amino boxes was fixed 1 or 2 weeks ago in the developement version. You can give it a try here: http://nightlies.videolan.org

I'v checkouted vlc from subversion (trunk from svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk). Small change is made:

Index: modules/misc/rtsp.c
===================================================================
--- modules/misc/rtsp.c (revision 14469)
+++ modules/misc/rtsp.c (working copy)
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
p_media->es = 0;
p_media->psz_mux = 0;
p_media->rtsp = 0;
- p_media->b_raw = VLC_FALSE;
+ p_media->b_raw = VLC_TRUE;

As I see Amino + Kasenna using non-standart RAW/RAW/UDP transport and we need to enable b_raw. ok ?

Recompiling is ok.
When I trying to see video film on Amino110 nothing is shown (just black screen).
What I see on tcpdump:

This is request from Amino:
0x0000: 4500 00ea 33b0 4000 4006 ee3c 0a01 0219 E...3.@.@..<....
0x0010: 0a01 0207 0536 022b 234a 0c2b 526c f26f .....6.+#J.+Rl.o
0x0020: 8018 16d0 cd9a 0000 0101 080a 0079 3f91 .............y?.
0x0030: 0896 d605 5345 5455 5020 7274 7370 3a2f ....SETUP.rtsp:/
0x0040: 2f31 302e 312e 322e 372f 6e65 7475 7020 /10.1.2.7/netup.
0x0050: 5254 5350 2f31 2e30 0d0a 4353 6571 3a20 RTSP/1.0..CSeq:.
0x0060: 310d 0a55 7365 722d 4167 656e 743a 204d 1..User-Agent:.M
0x0070: 4241 5345 5f4d 5045 475f 504c 4159 4552 BASE_MPEG_PLAYER
0x0080: 5f4b 410d 0a54 7261 6e73 706f 7274 3a20 _KA..Transport:.
0x0090: 5241 572f 5241 572f 5544 503b 756e 6963 RAW/RAW/UDP;unic
0x00a0: 6173 743b 6465 7374 696e 6174 696f 6e3d ast;destination=
0x00b0: 3130 2e31 2e32 2e32 353b 636c 6965 6e74 10.1.2.25;client
0x00c0: 5f70 6f72 743d 3131 3131 313b 0d0a 782d _port=11111;..x-
0x00d0: 6d61 794e 6f74 6966 793a 0d0a 782d 706c mayNotify:..x-pl
0x00e0: 6179 4e6f 773a 0d0a 0d0a ayNow:....

and reply from vlc:
0x0000: 4500 00de 246b 4000 4006 fd8d 0a01 0207 E...$k@.@.......
0x0010: 0a01 0219 022b 0536 526c f26f 234a 0ce1 .....+.6Rl.o#J..
0x0020: 8018 06b4 b7ba 0000 0101 080a 0896 d63e ...............>
0x0030: 0079 3f91 5254 5350 2f31 2e30 2032 3030 .y?.RTSP/1.0.200
0x0040: 204f 4b0d 0a54 7261 6e73 706f 7274 3a20 .OK..Transport:.
0x0050: 5241 572f 5241 572f 5544 503b 636c 6965 RAW/RAW/UDP;clie
0x0060: 6e74 5f70 6f72 743d 3131 3131 312d 3131 nt_port=11111-11
0x0070: 3131 320d 0a53 6572 7665 723a 2056 4c43 112..Server:.VLC
0x0080: 2053 6572 7665 720d 0a43 6f6e 7465 6e74 .Server..Content
0x0090: 2d4c 656e 6774 683a 2030 0d0a 4373 6571 -Length:.0..Cseq
0x00a0: 3a20 310d 0a43 6163 6865 2d43 6f6e 7472 :.1..Cache-Contr
0x00b0: 6f6c 3a20 6e6f 2d63 6163 6865 0d0a 5365 ol:.no-cache..Se
0x00c0: 7373 696f 6e3a 2037 3136 3539 3430 3939 ssion:.716594099
0x00d0: 3b74 696d 656f 7574 3d35 0d0a 0d0a ;timeout=5....

This is last packet and I don't see any packets to/from Amino.
vlc log:

[00000251] main private: Accepting
[00000249] vod_rtsp private debug: RtspCallback query: type=8
[00000249] vod_rtsp private debug: HTTPD_MSG_SETUP: transport=RAW/RAW/UDP;unicast;destination=10.1.2.25;client_port=11111;
[00000249] vod_rtsp private debug: HTTPD_MSG_SETUP: setting b_raw = VLC_TRUE
[00000249] vod_rtsp private debug: HTTPD_MSG_SETUP: unicast ip=10.1.2.25 port=11111
[00000249] vod_rtsp private debug: new session: 716594099


Is this functionality work ?
How I can help (I can code on C/C++ and doing tests on various configuration) ?

[kbell]

I would also like to know. We have about 400 aminocoms in use and would love to use VLC as a VOD server.

[rcourtney]

Can you elaborate on the HTML pages you are sending to the Amino 110 cubes?

My understanding is you must specify the overlay color so the video shows
thru. Getting audio?

EDIT:
I think you need something like the following, the background is green
and is replaced with your video. The 110 cubes might accept a graphic
with an alpha channel, which means a grey level alpha would give you
a semi transparent logo or station bug!

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Amino Play Page</TITLE>
<aminoattr tcr="#00ff00" UNLOADVIDEO="no" notoolbar hidepointer />
</HEAD>

<BODY bgcolor="#00ff00" text="#ffffff" >
<amino fgalpha="5">
<script language="javascript">
VideoDisplay.SetAlphaLevel(0);
AVMedia.Play('type=VOD;src=rtsp://10.1.2.25:11111/program1;servertype=ncube;offset=0;');
</script>
</BODY>
</html>

[dionoea]

Streaming RTSP from VLC to Amino boxes was fixed 1 or 2 weeks ago in the developement version. You can give it a try here: http://nightlies.videolan.org

Woops, in fact it wasn't fixed. One of the devs (jpsaman) has the fix available on his VLC version but he's waiting to get payed by a company before commiting it to the developement version. It should be available in 1 or 2 weeks ... i hope.

[__mami2]

Is it now available?
to whom we should pay?
Is there any contact info to this person?

[__mami]

Hi
No reply?

[dionoea]

you can try to contact him via his website http://m2x.nl/

[robc]

I have submitted a patch to the vlc-devel list which permits VLM to be used as a VOD RTSP server for Amino STBs - The post can be found at http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/ ... 00544.html

[bakdafu]

Hi
No reply?

[Instigater]

It's working in development versions right now. I use Windows binary package both on windows and linux.