Re: Local telly from ITV


"pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Regarding all that sort of thing, you may be interested to Read
> a bit of what the Firm (called NarrowStep.com) who is actually
> supplying the "IP Video Delivery Services" to/for the "Content
> Providers" have to say on their Website...
>
> http://www.narrowstep.com/

OK it's an advert it make things sound great.
>
> Notice, if you Select either of the 2 Links for the currently
> available stuff, (on the Meridian Page of the itvlocal.tv Site)
> it Opens up a Window with a "Player" from the NarrowStep.tv Site...
>
> After going through a series of ReDirects & stuff

And it took it's time doing it too :-( Then when it finally did open the
player it wouldn't show me anything unless I allowed all cookies.
>
> http://player.narrowstep.tv/?player=itv_hastings
> http://player2.narrowstep.tv/default.aspx?player=itv_hastings
> & if you have your Scripts Set up, so as to not allow some kinds of
> "Browser Sniffing" type stuff, the Player doesn't Automatically Open,
> or Play, but they give you a Link to Click on which Opens a different
> Player Window, but they still do their best to Hide what's actually on the
> Page - the Script tries to Open the Window without any Menu Bar, so it's
> more difficult to get to the "View Source" Option...
> http://player2.narrowstep.tv/skins/0014/nsp.aspx?player=itv_hastings
>
> On the Page, it turns out that it's full of Scripts which check which
> Version of windoze Media Player is Installed, so that they can check
> that it's got DRM (Digital Rights Management) Enabled so that the Video
> Files can be "Locked" &/or Encrypted, so they are harder to ReDistribute.

So I went back to http://www.narrowstep.com/ and clicked on the link to
Glasgow and out of curiosity allowed cookies. IMHO it wasn't worth it
>
> I did notice that (one of) the URLs for the Files is actually...
> http://195.219.160.200/mcp
>
> Which actually Sends back an .ASF (Active Streaming File) which
> is just a Plain Text "Meta" File containing the URL of the *actual*
> Video Streams
>
> http://195.219.160.200/mcp?MSWMExt=.asf
>
> That is designed to Open up in (or Play in) windoze Media Player,
> or the WMP Plug-in in Internet Explorer.
>
> It does a lot of checking ,to make sure that you have the right
> (DRM Enabled) Version of WMP & the right Codecs & stuff & that you
> aren't Trying to access the URL directly.
> :-)
>
> The Video Stream is also available as an mms:// (MultiMedia Stream) URL
>
> mms://195.219.160.200/mcp
>
> I'd be interested to see how (or if) it (either of the Streams) Plays
> in other Browsers, or in other Operating Systems

Both of the URLs above opened up WMP for me and all I got was a black box
with a huge white *ERRROR* in the middle. The mms://195.219.160.200/mcp
after asking permission to get through my firewall gave me exactly the same.
--
Sandra
People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did, but
People will never forget how you made them feel.




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