Orb Live TV Application

[abadi199]

I am working on an apps to connect to a windows machine running Orb to watch live tv via tv tuner. I've managed to get all the channels list and tv programming guide via Orb xml message API, but still couldn't get the video to play. Boxee would just hang and I would have to terminate the process. I've tried on Linux, Mac, and Windows platform and they are all having the same problem.

Here is what I see on my log file every times I tried playing the video stream:

20:56:14 T:2690606880 M:632569856    INFO: Loading skin file: DialogProgress.xml
20:56:16 T:2972475392 M:631889920  NOTICE: url:http://192.168.0.199:80/05FF99E78A002E65/12/E0/live.wmv
20:56:16 T:2972475392 M:631889920  NOTICE: 
20:56:16 T:2972475392 M:631877632  NOTICE: Now Playing:
20:56:16 T:2972475392 M:631877632  NOTICE: 
20:56:16 T:2972475392 M:632463360    INFO: Scriptresult: Success
20:56:19 T:2973007872 M:632205312    INFO: CoreAudioRenderer::Deinitialize: Renderer has been shut down.
20:56:19 T:2973007872 M:632201216  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: mms://192.168.0.199:80/05FF99E78A002E65/12/E0/live.wmv
20:56:19 T:2973007872 M:632180736 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
20:56:19 T:2973540352 M:632160256  NOTICE: Creating InputStream

I am able to play the same stream via VLC, and from VLC, I was able to get the codec used in the stream which is WMV2.
I am using Boxee 0.9.14.6992.

The code for my application can be downloaded from:
http://code.google.com/p/boxee-orb/

or can be installed by adding this repository:
http://boxee-orb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Here's a screenshot from my application:


As a temporary workaround, I use VLC on the server to create stream, and then use my Boxee-Orb application to switch the channel, and it's running smoothly. But I would really appreciate if someone could help pointing the problem with connecting directly to the stream created by Orb. Thanks

[abadi199]

Orb provides 4 stream type that can be used: asx, rm, swf, and 3gp. I tried all of them, but still no success.
Here is the error I got for each different stream type:

Stream type: rm and 3gp (for some reason, the url for rm and 3gp is actually the same)

15:58:04 T:2973061120 M:487849984  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: rtsp://192.168.0.199:554/9C86AC7A1E77603E/51/E0/live.3gp
15:58:04 T:2973061120 M:487841792 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487833600  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487804928    INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487804928    INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles done
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487804928  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487337984   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487337984  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
15:58:04 T:2973593600 M:487337984  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
15:58:04 T:2690606880 M:487337984  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()

Stream type: swf

15:59:56 T:2974126080 M:488878080  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: http://192.168.0.199:80/AF6C5A7A98DDD102/52/E0/live.flv
15:59:56 T:2974126080 M:488869888 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:488861696  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425775104    INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425775104    INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles done
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425775104  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425320448    INFO: ffmpeg: Input #0, flv, from 'http://192.168.0.199:80/AF6C5A7A98DDD102/52/E0/live.flv':
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425320448    INFO: ffmpeg:   Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425320448    INFO: ffmpeg:     Stream #0.0: Video: 0x0000, 1k tbn
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425320448    INFO: ffmpeg:     Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x0000, 0 channels, s16
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425320448  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425320448  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 0
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425238528   ERROR: Unsupported video codec
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425238528 WARNING: OpenVideoStream - Unsupported stream 0. Stream disabled.
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425238528  NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425238528  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 0
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425238528   ERROR: Unsupported audio codec
15:59:56 T:2974658560 M:425238528 WARNING: OpenAudioStream - Unsupported stream 1. Stream disabled.
15:59:56 T:2975191040 M:425230336 WARNING: SkipBytes - request negative skip which is not supported.
15:59:57 T:2975191040 M:424660992   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
15:59:57 T:2975191040 M:424759296   ERROR: Process, error 36 seeking. seek returned -1
15:59:57 T:2975191040 M:424734720 WARNING: SkipBytes - request negative skip which is not supported.
15:59:57 T:2975191040 M:424734720   ERROR: Process, error 36 seeking. seek returned -1
15:59:57 T:2974658560 M:424734720  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
15:59:57 T:2974658560 M:424734720  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 22
15:59:57 T:2974658560 M:424734720  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: Flash Video (FLV)
15:59:57 T:2974658560 M:424189952  NOTICE: Creating video thread
15:59:57 T:2974658560 M:424181760   ERROR: ffmpeg: [flv] skipping flv packet: type 46, size 3157039, flags 0
15:59:57 T:2976788480 M:424181760  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
15:59:57 T:2976788480 M:424177664   ERROR: ffmpeg: [flv] Bad picture start code
15:59:57 T:2976788480 M:424177664   ERROR: ffmpeg: [flv] header damaged
15:59:57 T:2976788480 M:424177664   ERROR: Decode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
15:59:57 T:2690606880 M:424177664    INFO: Loading skin file: VideoOverlay.xml
15:59:58 T:2976788480 M:423268352    INFO: CDVDPlayerVideo - Stillframe detected, switching to forced 25.000000 fps
16:00:00 T:2975191040 M:423759872   ERROR: Process, error 36 seeking. seek returned -1
16:00:00 T:2974658560 M:423759872   ERROR: ffmpeg: [flv] skipping flv packet: type 0, size 14296195, flags 0
16:00:00 T:2975191040 M:423759872   ERROR: Process, error 36 seeking. seek returned -1
16:00:00 T:2974658560 M:423759872   ERROR: ffmpeg: [flv] skipping flv packet: type 24, size 2076579, flags 0
16:00:03 T:2975191040 M:425652224   ERROR: Process, error 36 seeking. seek returned -1
16:00:03 T:2974658560 M:425652224   ERROR: ffmpeg: [flv] skipping flv packet: type 255, size 15931157, flags 0

I think the swf format look most promising because Boxee seems to be able to open the stream.

I don't have access to beta version, so I don't know if this problem is solved in beta. Any help or clue would be most appreciated.

[sweetammonia]

How do you establish an account and password?

[abadi199]

How do you establish an account and password?

You first have to download and run orb application from http://orb.com on your own windows machine with tv tuner, then create an account and password that can be uses to connect to your orb machine.

[grahamgo]

Will this run on Macintosh or Windows - or both?

[darcilicious]

http://orb.com/en/download_orb seems there's a mac version available as well as windows (I've been using the windows version for a very long time).

[Automate]

Does this Orb app work any better in Boxee Beta?