Notices

On a related note.

how to stretch videos using mplayer?

Not easy!!!

Upon using native mplayer, the most straight forward way to stretch video is add the following to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

aspect=w:h

where w=width and h=height

Say a video that is played on the screen as 4:3, you add aspect=15:9, will fill the screen, no black border. However, there are 2 situations that make matter difficult. 1) if the endcoding video is slight bigger than 4:3, then 15:9 will give you 4 borders instead of no border. 2) TV channel may change aspect ratio for different programs, so 15:9 may work on AM but give ugly 4 borders on PM, yes, same TV channel, interesting?

Aspectratio changes ONLY width, height stays constant unless it falls out of the border. For example, 15:10 vs 15:9 will have the same height, but width larger. And 15:10 vs 14:10 will have the same height, but width larger. Just keep in mind, height remains constant, width changes to compensate for the ratio.

The next will be "crop". I am still experimenting, so I will leave this to the experts.


I am talking ONLY play back videos using mplayer. Stetching videos using endcoding is a totally different ballgame and I have nothing to do with it.

bun

idesitv has many indian channels which work with internet tablet,
for example

Sony TV
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-sony-sdj33332/

PS. Great work bunanson, hope I had more time to
play with my N800 and watch internet TV.
By the way, did you know that shoutcast tv channels
work too

Yup. They ALL working and with good streaming video quality. Thanks. Already added, should be in next upgrade.

bun

Hey, good to see you again!
I thought shoutcast is radio stations, we do have shoutcast tv channels? I will take a look......any special channel you feel particularly good, video qualitywise? I know, I am kind of prejudice to video quality, but if the video quality is mediocor, even with good content, it is NOT that enjoyable.

bun

hey thanks for the sony link.

i went to idesitv.com but those links never played. now my question is how to get the mms version of http links?

There are many indian channels on that website i want to watch them on my n810.

thanks

I'm really beginning to hate this application.
I sucessfully used it 2 months ago, then it became hard to get any of the USA channels and now with the upgrade I've wasted half an hour trying USA channels without success.

Try mplayer/kmplayer, links don't work with Osso Media Player
(haven't tried all).
To get stream url's you can tap and hold link above the play area (music icon), select details.
Unfortunately you can't copy and paste that url
Or you could save the page and look at embed src="url" and use that url part

It is easier to try those channels with another computer (I have XP)
and look at the page source. I tried all channels, here are the
working and not so working (some were offline). You can just
replace the http: part with mms: if http: doesn't work.
Actually I mass replaced http:// with mms:// (occasionally
mms:// doesn't work, try then http://)
Some channels have that ?WMContentBitrate=somenumber
part at the end of the stream address but I think that it isn't
necessary part. Don't know how long these work.

Working channels (Windows XP mediaplayer):

. CNN IBN
mms://a779.l2584224778.c25842.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/779/25842/v0001/reflector:24778
. CNBC TV18 India (English)
mms://a866.l2639634865.c26396.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/866/26396/v0001/reflector:34865
. CNBC Awaaz India
mms://a1145.l2639731144.c26397.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1145/26397/v0001/reflector:31144
. IBN/CNBC Lokmat
mms://a990.l4028444989.c40284.a.lm.akamaistream.net/D/990/40284/v0001/reflector:44989
. IBN Hindi
mms://a1752.l2639523751.c26395.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1752/26395/v0001/reflector:23751
. Star Plus TV
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-starplus-3j3333hx
. Star One TV
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-starone-sddnb3nb33
. Zee TV USA
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zee-sdkjdb3b33
. Set Max
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-setmax-sdkdn3n3333
. B4U Movies
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-b4umovies-skdjnskjd33?WMContentBitrate=600000
. B4U Music
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-b4umu-sdkjsbdk33?WMContentBitrate=600000
. Zee Punjabi
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zeepunjabi-sddkjd3b3b33
. Zee Marathi
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zeemara-sdlkjdnd3b3b3332
Zee Telugu
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zeetele-sdjsndkjn334
. Star Vijay
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-starvijay-sdkjdbb23
. Sony TV
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-sony-sdj33332

Doesn't work (?) well or at all (some were offline), my comments:

. Star Gold stutters
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-stargold-sslkjdlkn33?WMContentBitrate=600000
. Indus Vision didn't work
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-indusvision-skdjddbv3b33?WMContentBitrate=500000
. Star Utsav didn't work
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-starutsav-skdbdjhb333?WMContentBitrate=500000
. Zoom TV India didn't work
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zoom-skjldndn3n334
. Zee Cinema didn't work
mms://89.248.168.160/zeecin-sdsdlkjnsdkjn3
. Zee Gujarati buffers and stops
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zeegujarati-sdlksdlknd3
. Zee Bangla buffers and stops
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-zeebangla-sdljdndn334
. Ary Digital didn't work
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-ary-sdjddh33h33?WMContentBitrate=600000
. Geo TV stutters
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-geo-sdndnd2n?WMContentBitrate=600000
. Geo News stutters
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-geonews-sdljdndb3b33
. Sun TV stutters
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-sun-sdkjdnb2b3x
. Raj TV didn't work
mms://208.53.158.52/raj-skdjsnkjndkj33323?WMContentBitrate=600000
. DD News didn't work
mms://208.53.158.52/ddnews-skdjnskdjnd332
. Star News didn't work
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-timesnow-sddndn3n34
. NDTV India didn't work
mms://208.53.158.52/ndtv-sdjnskjnskd2223?WMContentBitrate=600000
. Yo Music India didn't work
mms://209.11.246.242/yomusi-sdkjsdnj32
. Pakistan TV stutters
mms://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-paktv-skdjnsd33

thank you so much. i really appreciate this.

sonic-lux.de/home/projekte/software/shoutcast_tv_lists/web/

has many shoutcast tv channels (or use Winamp). Copy the Tune in link to mplayer,
such as
mplayer -playlist http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutc...st.pls?rn=5683

Family Guy, Futurama, anime, amateur radio studios and XXX seems to be popular.
Many streams are 320x240 and play well. There are only limited
number of slots free before the channel is full so try different
channels (look at the last column).

I hope someone ports tunapie. Tunapie is rather old Linux program
to watch shoutcast tv.

EDIT: Doh, just tried forum search for tunapie. It seems that at
least unique311 had compiled a buggy version for internet tablet!
Other posts too.