http://www.tvcatchup.com
Thu, 03/05/2009 - 15:48
ok so just registered fot this site and it streams freeview channels straight through your browser was just wondering if we`d be able to create a plugin i`ve looked at the SDK but aint got a clue lol any help would be awesome
Thanks in advance
Fri, 03/06/2009 - 16:17
#2
thanks
thanks for the fast response, i`ve had a play with the sdk samples and the skyplayer you sent the link for the site requires the user to log in, looking at your sample it looks like we could get the plugin to do this automatically, is that correct ?
When logged in on the site you just click the freeview channel you`d like to watch and it starts to stream automatically.
thanks again for helping
Ian
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 00:32
#3
tv catch up plugin
i had a go at making this plug in have a look tell me what you think ??
I'm in the U.S., so I can't log-in to poke around, but the plug-in architecture is pretty much built around javascript and HTML rendering. If the video is presented as Flash in an HTML page, that's a good start. There are lots of Flash-based plug-ins to check out as examples, like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.
The tricky part would be authentication. It's tricky because the user doesn't have a mouse/keyboard, but usually do-able since the Connected browser supports cookies/sessions, etc. The twitter plug-in is one example of a log-in plug-in.
Here's one example of how you might be able to get a browser session inside Connected:
http://labs.divx.com/files/skyplayer.zip
Let me know if you have any questions...