vlc could not reach a link to streaming for TV ...

[mchasard]

First i'm very Happy to use vl 5.8 soho live cd ...its speed , enough complete even open office was removed ...my main troubles are about vlc and the failure to reach this link :

http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u   

But note that this link works only with a french provider  (free) and allow me to get some TV channel ...through a (freebox) ...i only can see the channel pass one to one but it open never the TVchannel inside ...so i know that with vl 5.8 std the firewall blocked the access so i had to desable firewal to make it work ...
But with this vl 5.8 soho livecd ...i don't have the same success ...so could you light me about thoses troubles ...

Thanks in advance ...


 

[mchasard]

strange i let this message few days before and nobodies seems to have the same troubles cause no answer were done ...

is there some french user with free provider who could try the link to reach the TV channels for freebox adn free provider ...

thanks in advance ...

[The Headacher]

strange i let this message few days before and nobodies seems to have the same troubles cause no answer were done ...

It's sort of hard to verify for others who might not be able to reach that link. I for one can't reach it.

Anyways, VLC seems broken on SOHO (not just the livecd), not sure what causes it/ how to fix it.

[mchasard]

hum ok thanks so much for your answer , i' feel less alone than before ...so even in the normal soho it  doesn't work ...otherwise i haven't any troubles with live std 5.8 ...
hope a new version wil be update ...soon ... thanks for this wonderful distro ...even in livecd ...be able to run kde with small configuration ...its cool ...

Thanks and long live vectorlinux

[Old Lodge Skins]

Hi,

I have the same problem...
The first thing I did since the version of VLC provided with VL 5.8 standard does not have the RTSP part that is needed to receive the ADSL TV from Free, was to replace it with the one found on VLC's site. It's a little bit older (0.8.5) but has the RTSP option.
Now I suspect there is a firewall problem - I'm not too sure on how to open custom ports, which is necessary to have VLC to wok properly. I've done it successfully on my OpenSUSE laptop, but on VLC, since VASM offers you only a limited choice of ports to open, it has to be done manually.
I edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/firewall and changed the PERMIT line in order to include the same ports that are opened on my laptop where VLC works - could someone confirm that I did it the right way? My line is now:

PERMIT="192.168.0.0/24 445/TCP 137-139 7991 8080/tcp 445/UDP 137-139 12340-12350/udp"
then I restarted the firewall.

VLC still doesn't work for now with the distant RTSP server. I get things like this - if anyone knows what it means...:

Code:

Sending request: OPTIONS rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/stream?id=666 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 43
User-Agent: VLC media player (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2005.11.10)


Received OPTIONS response: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Cseq: 43
Server: fbxrtspd/1.0 Freebox minimal RTSP server
Public: DESCRIBE, SETUP, TEARDOWN, PLAY


Sending request: DESCRIBE rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/stream?id=666 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 44
Accept: application/sdp
User-Agent: VLC media player (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2005.11.10)


Received DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Cseq: 44
Content-Length: 191
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Language: fr
Server: fbxrtspd/1.0 Freebox minimal RTSP server


Need to read 191 extra bytes
Read 191 extra bytes: v=0
o=leCDN 1194539846 1194539846 IN IP4 kapoueh.proxad.net
s=NRJ 12 NRJ 12
i=NRJ 12 NRJ 12
c=IN IP4 0.0.0.0
t=0 0
m=video 0 RTP/AVP 33
a=control:rtsp://212.27.38.253/freeboxtv/stream?id=666

Sending request: SETUP rtsp://212.27.38.253/freeboxtv/stream?id=666 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 45
Transport: RTP/AVP/TCP;unicast;interleaved=0-1
User-Agent: VLC media player (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2005.11.10)



Received SETUP response: RTSP/1.0 461 Unsupported Transport
Cseq: 45
Server: fbxrtspd/1.0 Freebox minimal RTSP server


[00000314] livedotcom demuxer error: PLAY failed No RTSP session is currently in progress

[00000313] main input error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/stream?id=666'

Seb.