MediaServer: Playlist

1. Playlist MediaServer
   1. Additional dependencies
   2. UPnP ContentDirectory structure
   3. Configuration
      1. Examples
   4. Open Tickets for this backend …

Playlist MediaServer

Exposes the list of video and audio streams from a m3u playlist (e.g. web TV listings published by french ISPs such as Free, SFR, German SWR3, ...)

Additional dependencies

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UPnP ContentDirectory structure

The content directory presents a flat listing with all entries from the M3U playlist.

Configuration

The Playlist backend accepts these options:

name:

the name this backend should show up on your UPnP clients, defaults to YouTube

playlist_url

the URL to the M3U playlist

Potential playlist URLs include:

• http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u : web TV available from French ISP Free (only from Free customers) (default)
• http://televisionsurpc.sfr.fr/televisionsurpc.m3u : web TV available from french ISP SFR (previously Neuf) (only for SFR customers)
• http://freetuxtv.googlecode.com/files/playlist_webtv_en.m3u : web TV listing collected by projet FreeTuxTV. Other playlists can be found here.
• ...

Examples

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Old config:

[[PlaylistStore]]
        name = Coherence - Playlist                                # default: my media (The name under this MediaServer shall show up with on other UPnP clients)
        playlist_url = http://www.swr3.de/wraps/swr3_mp3.m3u.php   # default : http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u
        #version = (2|1)                                           # The highest UPnP version this MediaServer shall support
        #uuid =                                                    # The unique (UPnP) identifier for this MediaServer, usually automatically set

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