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Take a look at my onlinemedia.xml thread on the General Discussion section… no, it doesn’t add support for TVTuga, although it might some day (I’m Portuguese too).
The problem with TVTuga and similar sites is that the stream of the URLs, apart from probably not being recognizable by WiiMC (most streams are RTSP and MMS), are very hard to discover which they are. Some years ago, the URLs were less encrypted and I made a VB.NET application that allowed me to watch online TV without opening a browser (just give the URL to Windows Media Player). But some days ago I went checking and this isn’t the situation anymore, now the streams are accessed in a way which I couldn’t discover yet. Or better saying, I can get to the part of the script which gets the URL of the stream, but I can’t get VLC (or any other media player) to understand and connect to it.

I wonder if there are other online TV sites with less strange stream URLs which can be seen (like some years ago happened with TVTuga) just by viewing the page’s source code. At the end, TVTuga is just a Portuguese copy of many other online TV sites, which might or might not have the URLs less hidden.

(I have also taken the RTP channel stream as the example of my search, and neither on TVtuga or on RTP’s official site I could get a working stream that I could open with VLC)

So, it’s a no-do for now. If you want, you can tell me what specific channel(s) you want to watch and I’ll try to decipher the stream URL for it. No promises though.

[hello2000]

I’m not sure you understood, as I can’t understand very well what you say in the first paragraph, but the scripts are not hosted at a server at my home, but in a VPS from Hostrail.
Better yet, the scripts WERE hosted at that VPS, becuase it seems they just rolled back my VPS to a previous backup and I lost all the data that was on /var/www, including the scripts. (It is a free VPS anyways so these things are to expect). I’m now going to reupload the scripts to another VPS that it’s not from Hostrail and that has been working for six months without problems.

The only thing that worries me is that I made modifications to the scripts that are now lost as I didn’t backup. Anyways…

I’ll update the post with a new onlinemedia.xml when I’m done.

EDIT: I already updated the post with a new onlinemedia.xml. The download location for this file is now different.
The scripts are now hosted at my other VPS, which is not from Hostrail and has been proved very reliable in the last months. (uptime of 65 days, and it had been running for longer before, but I rebooted it)

Also, jhb50, could you please explain me better why my server might be quicker for me, but other might not feel any difference? Obviously I know that if the server is “nearer” (in terms of internet connections) me, it will be faster, but apart from that, is there anything?

EDIT2: nic.cz.cc free domains service pointed my domain gbl08ma.cz.cc to searchportal or any other domain parking site (again, it already happened to me before). I already changed the zone records back, but it’s not working yet…
To avoid WiiMC from being dependent on the domain being working or not, I posted again new onlinemedia.xml which instead of the domain name contains the IP address of the server.
This new onlinemedia.xml also adds basic support for Jamendo. Unfortunately track search does not seem to be very accurate, and I’m yet to find a way to get a m3u playlist of a album/artist search through the Jamendo API.

Other thing nice to have is Grooveshark support, but it’s by far more difficult than Jamendo as their (Grooveshark) API doesn’t return M3U playlists.

I’ll post the source for my scripts soon.

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I think that any kind of torrent downloader or torrent client control over WiiMC makes no sense. WiiMC is a media player, not a download manager.
It’d be interesting to have a full featured downloader with torrent support on the homebrew scene, as a standalone app, but that’s not a discussion for this forum.

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I managed to get the script working, but whenever it tries to compile it seems to complain about a unexpected “(” in filebrowser.cpp. I’m pretty sure the problem is not with that though.
The configure scripts returns two errors:
configure: error: in `/home/gabriel/wiimc-read-only/libs/pcre’:
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

install.sh tells me this when I try to compile:

The following can be done
[1] – Setup the compiling environment
[2] – Complile WiiMC
[3] – Clean the compiling environment
[X] – Exit this application
What do you want to do: 2
cd source/mplayer; make -f Makefile; cd ../..
make[1]: Entrando no diretório `/home/gabriel/wiimc-read-only/source/mplayer’
help/help_create.sh help/help_mp-en.h UTF-8
make[1]: execvp: help/help_create.sh: Permissão negada
make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/home/gabriel/wiimc-read-only/source/mplayer’
filebrowser.cpp
/opt/devkitpro/devkitPPC/bin/powerpc-eabi-g++: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected
make[1]: ** [filebrowser.o] Erro 2
make: ** [build] Erro 2
Done
Press [Enter] to continue…

(where it says “Permissão negada” it means “Permission denied”, “Entrando no diretório” is “Entering directory”, “Saindo do diretório” is “Exiting directory”. This thing of having make output in different languages is very unpractical…)

I’m not sure if this is related to the script, to WiiMC code, to devkitPPC, or to my system configurations. bookondoklife, in which linux distro did you develop this script? Anyways, when I did not use the script, it also wouldn’t compile, but the error was different (I think I set up it wrong…)…

Any help is very much appreciated. Is pretty damn bad when you can’t contribute your knowledge and ideas to open source projects… 🙁

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I tried this script, it downloaded all the packages and then…

2011-05-01 22:28:30 (111 KB/s) – “gamecube-examples-20100930.tar.bz2” salvo [765734/765734]

./install.sh: 67: Syntax error: “}” unexpected

And if I try to run install.sh again:

root@GabrielUbuntuDesktop:/home/gabriel# sh ./install.sh
./install.sh: 14: function: not found
./install.sh: 67: Syntax error: “}” unexpected

Note: I was running as root (notice the # in the shell).

Any ideas? Removing the } only makes the situation worse, with more errors. I tried setting up the dev environment manually before I discovered this script, and I wasn’t managing to get it compiling, so I tried this.

Running Ubuntu 10.10 32bit.

EDIT: Forget it: I was using sh to run the script. I chmod’ed it to 777 and ran it using ./install.sh, now seems to work nicely (still running).

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Hello everyone. This is my first post here, I have installed homebrew on my Wii recently and the first software I installed after Homebrew Browser was WiiMC. Basically, I’m loving it. It brings the features of a TV that costs $900 to a $500 one: YouTube and ShoutCast :).

I came across this thread accidentally and the mockups of the possible future GUIs for WiiMC are really nice, all of them. I see we have many talented graphics designers and few developers to code the GUI where to insert the graphics. (Obviously I understand Tantric has much more to do than going about coding a new GUI for WiiMC).

It’s a shame nobody’s working on a new GUI, even if it’s just mockups. I’m going to see how to setup a development environment to compile WiiMC (I’m just thinking on how many headaches installing devkitpro on Linux will give to me) and try to do *something*. (even if it’s just changing an icon, it’ll be very good :))

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