Web TV

[Guest]

I decided to check out some of the more advanced menus on this receiver and ended up on Web Tv. 2 of the 4 channels there play fine but I have attempted to add 2 other channels with the proper url that I got from the net but when I press ok on the channel I keep getting the same message:

start play failed

What am I doing wrong?

[ViP3R]

Not Sure Costa, could be a server issue..I will try and look myself but my time is limited these days.

[Guest]

Kontratv and Ntv work fine but I can't edit them to see if I had setup the others correctly. Thanks for the help bud.

[Guest]

I can't get it to go with any other channel, is there some type of secret on how to enter url?

[eastof111]

Costactc, I don't have a Triplex, but if you have the time, pls post the Triplex webtv file so I can see what it looks like. Kinda curious.

Thanks

[Guest]

I'm not much into the tech thingy with these linux receivers, how would I be able to retrieve the Web Tv file from my receiver?

[eastof111]

I don't have a receiver to look at the directories and search, but if you still want to pursue finding the WebTV file, I can give you a general idea on using Filezilla to search for that file in your receiver. If not no problem.

[el bandido]

I will look at FileZilla for this in a bit

[el bandido]

I'm not much into the tech thingy with these linux receivers, how would I be able to retrieve the Web Tv file from my receiver?

Do you have FileZilla?
There are a couple of test webtv files out that have a couple of hundred channels on them. Lots of times the url is only temporary or they change it because of high demand. This may explain why the two you entered did not work.
Have you downloaded and installed any webtv tools?

[Guest]

Do you have FileZilla?
There are a couple of test webtv files out that have a couple of hundred channels on them. Lots of times the url is only temporary or they change it because of high demand. This may explain why the two you entered did not work.
Have you downloaded and installed any webtv tools?

I haven't seen filezilla nor have I dowloaded any web tools.

[rrob311]

I am kind of lost on this. I found the portal to download apps but I can't find WebTV. I found the weather forecast in the other menu but I have pretty much only found the Spark App store.

[el bandido]

Web TV requires a file. i have posted them before for the TripleX. Let me see what I can find.

[el bandido]

Attached are a couple of webtv files for you to try. Install them one at a time. When you install the second file, it will write over the first file.

[rrob311]

Cool I loaded the list and get a start play failed on all of them. I won't be able to sleep tonight until I get at least 1 to play.

[el bandido]

Look through ALL of them and you will find some that will play....

[rrob311]

OK, I got it, I had to reboot my network dongle. Nasa works. I guess my next question is what file formats will work with this besides rtmp? I am most interested in streaming local channels. I searched online for these kind of links last night but didn't come up with much. Where is a good place to check?

[el bandido]

More than NASA works for me.

You should be able to take the information from the Raptor and apply it to this receiver. Probably all you need to do is edit one of the .XML files and reload it.

[rrob311]

how can I find out what file extensions work with this? I am going to try to see if any local information streaming channels can work with this.

[eastof111]

If you open the webtv_usr.xml file in an editor like notepad, you will see that RTMP, RTSP, HTTP and MMS are in the files EB gave you.

[rrob311]

I took a look at the file and noticed the file extensions it will play. I found an MMS feed of a ski resort where I used to live. It looks like I have quite a bit of work to do to build a channel list. This is about as tedious as writing 4dtv maps.

[el bandido]

I think as you progress you may find some easier ways of doing things. But at least you have a starting point! Be sure to back things up.

[rrob311]

I noticed when entering the URL there is no option for a ?. Also when I press ? on my keyboard it doesn't work. There are a lot of URL's that have a ? symbol.

[el bandido]

IMO, The best thing to do is enter all the information into an .XML file and load it into the receiver. Modify the .XML instead of trying to enter manually into the receiver.

[rrob311]

I have been having trouble with some mms type files. They play fine on my computer but I get an immediate start play failed on the Triplex. This one here is for a public tv channel in Maine: mms://216.195.129.139:8080/

It seems a few of the ones that end in 8080 won't play for some reason.