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eric-mythtv at skoozdag

Sep 27, 2006, 12:13 AM

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Streaming Sirius through MythTV?

Hey folks. Got a question. I did a search, but didnt find too much
relevent information, so I thought I'd go ahead and ask. Has anyone
figured out how to stream Sirius satellite radio's web feed through
MythTV? I know the quality is only 64kbps, but hey its something. I
have Sirius in my car, and I love it -- and I often listen to the online
stream here at my desktop when I'm working... but I'd love to be able
to stream it from my myth box. I had found a python script on the
Sirius backstage forums that someone had written, but its since been
left to wither and no longer works due to some change that Sirius made
with the login features of their website or something.

So, has anyone gotten anything like this working?

Thanks!
--Eric
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wiz561 at gmail

Sep 27, 2006, 6:09 PM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

Wow... It's funny that you bring this up. I was thinking the same exact
thing yesterday!!!

I have a feeling, that it's going to be difficult. If I remember correctly,
it required Windows Media Player to play the stream. To my knowledge,
there's nothing that you can do for this on linux. If there is, then maybe
you have a chance, but since I don't think there is, then we might be out of
luck.

Good Luck!

On 9/27/06, Eric Holt <eric-mythtv [at] skoozdag> wrote:
>
> Hey folks. Got a question. I did a search, but didnt find too much
> relevent information, so I thought I'd go ahead and ask. Has anyone
> figured out how to stream Sirius satellite radio's web feed through
> MythTV? I know the quality is only 64kbps, but hey its something. I
> have Sirius in my car, and I love it -- and I often listen to the online
> stream here at my desktop when I'm working... but I'd love to be able
> to stream it from my myth box. I had found a python script on the
> Sirius backstage forums that someone had written, but its since been
> left to wither and no longer works due to some change that Sirius made
> with the login features of their website or something.
>
> So, has anyone gotten anything like this working?
>
>
> Thanks!
> --Eric
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eric-mythtv at skoozdag

Sep 27, 2006, 6:50 PM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

Michael: You're right, I think. I viewed the page source of the
streaming page, and I see references to microsoft windows media player.
I could have sworn it was just some Flash application.

Dang, that just flat out sucks. Stupid of Sirius to do it that way.

*hrmph*

--Eric

Michael Wisniewski wrote:
> Wow... It's funny that you bring this up. I was thinking the same
> exact thing yesterday!!!
>
> I have a feeling, that it's going to be difficult. If I remember
> correctly, it required Windows Media Player to play the stream. To my
> knowledge, there's nothing that you can do for this on linux. If there
> is, then maybe you have a chance, but since I don't think there is, then
> we might be out of luck.
>
> Good Luck!

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lynchmv at gmail

Sep 27, 2006, 7:46 PM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

On 9/27/06, Eric Holt <eric-mythtv [at] skoozdag> wrote:
> Michael: You're right, I think. I viewed the page source of the
> streaming page, and I see references to microsoft windows media player.
> I could have sworn it was just some Flash application.
>
> Dang, that just flat out sucks. Stupid of Sirius to do it that way.
>
> *hrmph*
>
> --Eric
>

Are you sure it *requires* windows media player? XM says they require
wmp, but I have no problems playing it with mplayerplug-in on my linux
boxes.
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andrew at nccomp

Sep 27, 2006, 8:45 PM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

Well, what about XM? There web player is ajax and runs equally well in
Firefox or IE. And wouldn't simply having the WMV codecs and perhaps the
mplayer-plugin allow either to work under Linux if WM is required?

Michael Wisniewski wrote:
> Wow... It's funny that you bring this up. I was thinking the same
> exact thing yesterday!!!
>
> I have a feeling, that it's going to be difficult. If I remember
> correctly, it required Windows Media Player to play the stream. To my
> knowledge, there's nothing that you can do for this on linux. If
> there is, then maybe you have a chance, but since I don't think there
> is, then we might be out of luck.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> On 9/27/06, *Eric Holt* <eric-mythtv [at] skoozdag
> <mailto:eric-mythtv [at] skoozdag>> wrote:
>
> Hey folks. Got a question. I did a search, but didnt find too much
> relevent information, so I thought I'd go ahead and ask. Has anyone
> figured out how to stream Sirius satellite radio's web feed through
> MythTV? I know the quality is only 64kbps, but hey its something. I
> have Sirius in my car, and I love it -- and I often listen to the
> online
> stream here at my desktop when I'm working... but I'd love to be able
> to stream it from my myth box. I had found a python script on the
> Sirius backstage forums that someone had written, but its since been
> left to wither and no longer works due to some change that Sirius made
> with the login features of their website or something.
>
> So, has anyone gotten anything like this working?
>
>
> Thanks!
> --Eric
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>
>
>
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andrew at nccomp

Sep 27, 2006, 8:52 PM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

While it may not be directly integrated into Myth itself, you could get
the WMV codecs for mplayer and the mplayerplugin, then try MythBrowser.
I haven't done this myself, but will try it with XM tomorrow...

Eric Holt wrote:
> Michael: You're right, I think. I viewed the page source of the
> streaming page, and I see references to microsoft windows media player.
> I could have sworn it was just some Flash application.
>
> Dang, that just flat out sucks. Stupid of Sirius to do it that way.
>
> *hrmph*
>
> --Eric
>
>
>
>
>
> Michael Wisniewski wrote:
>
>> Wow... It's funny that you bring this up. I was thinking the same
>> exact thing yesterday!!!
>>
>> I have a feeling, that it's going to be difficult. If I remember
>> correctly, it required Windows Media Player to play the stream. To my
>> knowledge, there's nothing that you can do for this on linux. If there
>> is, then maybe you have a chance, but since I don't think there is, then
>> we might be out of luck.
>>
>> Good Luck!
>>
>
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>
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wpoland at gmail

Sep 28, 2006, 6:10 AM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

On 9/27/06, Andrew Davis <andrew [at] nccomp> wrote:
> While it may not be directly integrated into Myth itself, you could get
> the WMV codecs for mplayer and the mplayerplugin, then try MythBrowser.
> I haven't done this myself, but will try it with XM tomorrow...
>
> Eric Holt wrote:
> > Michael: You're right, I think. I viewed the page source of the
> > streaming page, and I see references to microsoft windows media player.
> > I could have sworn it was just some Flash application.
> >
> > Dang, that just flat out sucks. Stupid of Sirius to do it that way.
> >
> > *hrmph*
> >
> > --Eric
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael Wisniewski wrote:
> >
> >> Wow... It's funny that you bring this up. I was thinking the same
> >> exact thing yesterday!!!
> >>
> >> I have a feeling, that it's going to be difficult. If I remember
> >> correctly, it required Windows Media Player to play the stream. To my
> >> knowledge, there's nothing that you can do for this on linux. If there
> >> is, then maybe you have a chance, but since I don't think there is, then
> >> we might be out of luck.
> >>
> >> Good Luck!
> >>
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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I've listened to and recorded the stream from Sirius before. I would
login and start playing the stream with firefox, and mplayer-plugin,
and then copy the url from mplayer, and load it into the wizard in
vlc, and start it to record. I recorded a full day this way about 10
months ago. The standard stream is only 32K though so it is a little
crappy.
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wpoland at gmail

Sep 28, 2006, 6:31 AM

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Re: Streaming Sirius through MythTV? [In reply to]

On 9/28/06, Byron Poland <wpoland [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Andrew Davis <andrew [at] nccomp> wrote:
> > While it may not be directly integrated into Myth itself, you could get
> > the WMV codecs for mplayer and the mplayerplugin, then try MythBrowser.
> > I haven't done this myself, but will try it with XM tomorrow...
> >
> > Eric Holt wrote:
> > > Michael: You're right, I think. I viewed the page source of the
> > > streaming page, and I see references to microsoft windows media player.
> > > I could have sworn it was just some Flash application.
> > >
> > > Dang, that just flat out sucks. Stupid of Sirius to do it that way.
> > >
> > > *hrmph*
> > >
> > > --Eric
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Wisniewski wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wow... It's funny that you bring this up. I was thinking the same
> > >> exact thing yesterday!!!
> > >>
> > >> I have a feeling, that it's going to be difficult. If I remember
> > >> correctly, it required Windows Media Player to play the stream. To my
> > >> knowledge, there's nothing that you can do for this on linux. If there
> > >> is, then maybe you have a chance, but since I don't think there is, then
> > >> we might be out of luck.
> > >>
> > >> Good Luck!
> > >>
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-users mailing list
> > > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
>
> I've listened to and recorded the stream from Sirius before. I would
> login and start playing the stream with firefox, and mplayer-plugin,
> and then copy the url from mplayer, and load it into the wizard in
> vlc, and start it to record. I recorded a full day this way about 10
> months ago. The standard stream is only 32K though so it is a little
> crappy.
>

I just tested this, (once I remembered my online login) and
mplayer-plugin would load, but would stay in buffering, but it had the
correct url, so I right clicked, and said copy url, and then pasted it
on the command line, put quotes around it, and vlc in front of it and
vlc started up and started playing it after a short delay. I noticed
a parameter in the url that was bitrate=low.. I stopped it, and then
restarted the feed changing the low to high, but I'm still getting a
16 bit 44100Hz 31kb/s stream (wma2) - From the vlc stream
information.

I'm not sure how the login process works, but someone good with
web/python or something could probably get something that can log in,
and extract the stream url, and pass it to another program. that
person is not me.
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