Engima 2 - Samsung SMART TV Streaming app

[mr_foj]

i cant use it on my mac

[pembo]

i cant use it on my mac

You need to install java v1.7 or v1.8
unzip the download, and from a shell type

java -jar E2Stream-installer.jar

This should launch the installer. I've not tried it on a non-windows machine but there's nothing in the installer that shouldn't work on Mac/Linux

[m1nz]

Whats the best way to upgrade. Just remove the old and re install again

E2Stream v1.2

Now available to download from here:
http://www.pembo.co.uk/2014/11/11/e2stream-v1-2/

Changelog

v1.2
- Resolved the 4:3 SD Channel issue to now display in full screen
- Remote the erroneous return button from the full screen view

v1.1
- Added installation of additional packages via a command line option.  Pass the folder containing smart tv apps as a command line parameter and these will be installed along with E2Stream.

v1.0
- Initial public release

[finbarr]

@pembo I have published my source code on gibhub.

Working so far:

• View a list of all recordings
• Click on a recording to start watching from the beginning
• Click on 4 or 6 on the remote to move back or forward 60 seconds
• Click on 7 or 9 on the remote to move back or forward 5 minutes
  

Yet to do:

• Show screen to input Enigma box IP (it is hardcoded for now)
• Complete video overlay to show progress and time elapsed/remaining.
• Show extended description in main list when selected.
• Remember playback position from last time, for each video
• Re-skin

[pembo]

@m1nz - you should just be able to run the installer and re-synchronize the apps on the tv.

[mcquaim]

The problem here is the limitations of smart TV browsers. They tend not to be able to run flash or HTML4 video (and if they do it's not done very well). The browser seems to be sandboxed so they can't launch it's own internal video player, and even if it can, these api calls would be different per TV.

I'm afraid my Blu-ray player must not be able to play these streams, all the ports etc. seem fine..

My other suggestion on how a new web interface would work would depend mostly on whether the stream on the sat receiver could be played using HTML5 video.

Most smart TV's now support HTML5 so in theory the code behind the WebIf would just generate html with the desired layout and a Video tag for each service. When you select a service then it'd start streaming.

Again, all theory as I don't know if you can stream to a HTML5 video tag with the services as I think they have to be mp4 etc..

[finbarr]

The problem is that the <video> tag in html5 does not give the developer any indication of the codecs installed on the client device. We don't even do it for standard desktop browsers yet, let alone Smart TV browsers!

E.g. when you open a stream in OpenWebIf on your desktop, a program like VLC must play the media, because the browser sure as hell doesn't know how to handle it!

[mcquaim]

The problem is that the <video> tag in html5 does not give the developer any indication of the codecs installed on the client device. We don't even do it for standard desktop browsers yet, let alone Smart TV browsers!

E.g. when you open a stream in OpenWebIf on your desktop, a program like VLC must play the media, because the browser sure as hell doesn't know how to handle it!

In the samsung app what method is used to launch the stream?

[m1nz]

I have tried the new version on a UE40H6410 and I cant get the channels full screen. The screen only centre fills the screenm

[finbarr]

In the samsung app what method is used to launch the stream?

There is one method to play the stream, but then there are multiple callback functions to listen to events. Then different buffering mechanisms and different ways of skip, rewind and do error handling.

Here are my function headers for just my 'Player' class:

$ grep "function()" Player.js 
Player.init = function()
Player.onGetAVPlayError = function() {
Player.onError = function(){
Player.onSuccess = function(){
Player.deinit = function()
Player.setFullscreen = function()
Player.playVideo = function()
Player.pauseVideo = function()
Player.stopVideo = function()
Player.resumeVideo = function()
Player.getState = function()
Player.onBufferingStart = function()
Player.onBufferingComplete = function()
Player.setTotalTime = function()
onServerError = function()
OnNetworkDisconnected = function()
onDecoderReady = function() { alert("onDecoderReady"); }
onRenderError = function() { alert("onRenderError"); }
stopPlayer = function()

There is no 'standard' way among device manufacturers.

Take a look here for example. There is lots to think about. Then go to the LG TV API guide, and let me know how one could possibly standardise all this?

[pembo]

I have tried the new version on a UE40H6410 and I cant get the channels full screen. The screen only centre fills the screenm

yes - I've replicated this - I have two Samsung tvs.
If works full screen on the emulator, the older TV, but not the newer TV with the tizen based OS.

Interestingly - it looks like there is a later version of the apis available now (that finbarr is using!) so I'm going to switch the player out for this one, and hopefully it's more compatible with the Tizen based TVs.

[m1nz]

Thanks for the update. Also I have noticed the picons don't show and its abit slow starting up. Are you ok to report bugs on this forum. I am happy to test

[pembo]

Thanks for the update. Also I have noticed the picons don't show and its abit slow starting up. Are you ok to report bugs on this forum. I am happy to test

Yeah - sure. If it's slow starting up, do you happen to have a mass of bouquets?
At startup it just connects to the box and retrieves the bouquet list.

In terms of picons,

Are you using the new picon name rather id feature? It won't work with that right now if you are as it uses the ID to fetch the icon, e.g.
http://<ip>/picon/1_0_1_1E15_809_2_11A0000_0_0_0.png

If not, if you go to here:
http://<ip>/ajax/multiepg2
See if the picons show in the channels list

If they do, see if you can grab me the image url.

[m1nz]

Yeah - sure. If it's slow starting up, do you happen to have a mass of bouquets?
At startup it just connects to the box and retrieves the bouquet list.

In terms of picons,

Are you using the new picon name rather id feature? It won't work with that right now if you are as it uses the ID to fetch the icon, e.g.
http://<ip>/picon/1_0_1_1E15_809_2_11A0000_0_0_0.png

If not, if you go to here:
http://<ip>/ajax/multiepg2
See if the picons show in the channels list

If they do, see if you can grab me the image url.

I am using the built in bouquets form VIX. Also the Picons are 1_0_0_116B_2AF8_13E_820000_0_0_0.png so I am guessing they are new. Also I can confirm I cant seem them on the channels list if I go to http://<ip>/ajax/multiepg2

[pembo]

might be worth trying to turn them on in your epg to see if this makes a difference...

What build of Apollo are you running?