VLC plays TV France 24 - Anglais

VLC plays TV France 24 - Anglais

This post at WebTVUnleashed links to a UKTV2 play list which promised to allow users to use VLC to play a choice of live television.

However, most of the playlist entries give errors. The one that worked for me was France 24 in English. Here is the exact code for the playlist file "France24.xspf" I created and tested works with VLC both versions 1.0.5 and "1.10-rc-The Luggage":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/"> <title>Playlist</title> <trackList> <track> <location>mms://stream1.france24.yacast.net/f24_liveen</location> <title>France 24 - Anglais</title> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:id>0</vlc:id> <vlc:option>bookmarks={name=France 24 - Anglais0,bytes=1299146,time=212055}</vlc:option> </extension> </track> </trackList> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:item tid="0" /> </extension> </playlist>

Copy and paste the above text into a file such as "France24.xspf" and use VLC to open that file. It took VLC a few minutes to connect and buffer the stream but seems to be reliable. A selection of the messages VLC produced during buffering is below:

main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 1480)

access_mms debug: HTTP reply 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK'

access_mms debug: content-length = 5558

access_mms debug: stream type = broadcast

access_mms error: cannot read data 2

access_mms debug: complete header size=5546

access_mms debug: packet count=4294967295 packet size=5600

access_mms debug: starting stream

main debug: net: connecting to stream1.france24.yacast.net port 80

main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 1480)

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: control type=1

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: Buffering 0%

main debug: Buffering 3%

main debug: Buffering 6%

...

main debug: Stream buffering done (6034 ms in 7652 ms)

main debug: Decoder buffering done in 0 ms

main warning: PTS is out of range (1496122), dropping buffer

...

main warning: buffer is 254138622878 late, triggering upsampling

main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling

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main warning: the mixer got a packet in the past (50000)


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main warning: mixer start isn't output start (1256)

main warning: buffer is 254138762197 late, triggering upsampling

main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling

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main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (56396)

main warning: buffer is 254139375872 late, triggering upsampling

main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling

...

main warning: buffer is 254151264489 late, triggering upsampling

main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling