I found a way to play those videos outside US.

Right now I can play the videos outside Media Center (made a web app for this), but I think that will be no difficult to make an MC application to view it (anyone interested?).

 

Nicolas

 

a little bit - how?

The real application is calling some mcml files from the internet. We need to make an application that works the same way, but changing some part of the url.

 

I'm interested, keep us posted on your progress please!

What are mcml files? I've heard of mcl files before.

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You can test my little app at http://190.19.24.4:8080/internettv.aspx

I can tell you that all begins with http://mceondemand.microsoft.com/mcml/Launch.mcml

 

Please post feedback about this app

Very interesting.  Nice content.  Looking forward to the day when I can view the Internet TV content in VMC rather than having a stupid icon that does nothing!  

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Very interesting.  Nice content.  Looking forward to the day when I can view the Internet TV content in VMC rather than having a stupid icon that does nothing!  

I removed the Internet TV icon from my MCE by moving the NetTV folder from the location below to a backup folder.

%ProgramData%\Microsoft\eHome\Packages\NetTV

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Stu

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The Windows Media Center Blog

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Your URL seems to be down at the moment:

Server Error

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HTTP Error 500 - Internal server error.

Description: There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

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Server Version Information: Internet Information Services 7.0.

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Fixed!!.

This is the only problem I have. The app only works for a period of time.

This is because there is some GUID involved that turns to an invalid state And I have to recreate that.

lookeing for a solution right now.

So, any more progress on this?

Seems to me they are doing geo-checking also, since I keep getting dialogs saying "Internet TV is not available in your country".

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Yes!!!

I have a little app for MediaCenter to test

1. Download this file and put the contents of it in a directory of your choice

http://190.19.39.82:8080/mce.rar

2. Edit XML an change D:\ for where you put the .png file (imageUrl )

3. Go to cmd (command prompt, maybe with admin rights)

4.Go to C:\WINDOWS\EHOME

5. Run       RegisterMCEApp.exe /allusers "xmlfile"

where "xmlfile" is the path a name of the xml file you download (without the quotes)

6. Enjoy !!!

Now you have a new icon on media center (on TV + Movies)

The drawback is

Now you have an entry in your registry here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Extensibility\Entry Points\{890e3b46-9079-4e89-9309-7792d1b7a987}

the Value Context has an URL with a GUID, this GUID is the one that change.

I'm trying to make a program to refresh this key with new GUID

 

Just getting a black screen for all videos I've tried, buffers for a bit but nothing happens

 

 

edit: seems to be working better now

 

great work btw

Thanks, this worked. I had already created a very similar XML file and registered it, but with my file I still got the 'not available' message.

Anyhoo, I must say I'm not impressed with the whole Internet TV beta. Now, I can't comment on the 'series' they offer as they are blocked by some sort of geo-filter, but the rest of the content were really low-def in my opinion.

Also, when I selected NBC Nightly News (I much preferred Brokaw to Williams) I expected to see the whole program, not just badly cut selected segments :(

The same goes for selecing Entertainment/Channels. Sure, I didn't expect them  to have live feeds of CBS, NBC, ABC etc but I did expect to find a complete airing of The Today Show or other topical programming, but no, again they just have a selection of clips.

Nah, I'll stick with my current setup for now, which is TV-series grabbed via torrents (and DVDs) and newscasts are streamed live directly from the appropriate website.

Thanks though, for making a working xml file available.

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Just to make the things clear

The XML that you download has an URL with a GUID .(look at the registry at the key I told before)

If this GUID expire you will need to change the URL with a new one.

Currently I'm using the TOR network to get those GUID but I'm planning on make an app (that must be running on a US server) to get those GUID for me, and change the registry on the fly. (you will need to run an external app just to use Internet TV)

 

Aha, that explains it. I updated my own XML file with an URL I grabbed from one of my US servers and all is good. Should have seen that one coming really.

Actually - instead of running as an external app like you're suggesting, with a bit of C# code and an ASP page or two you should be able to set your Registration.xml to connect to www.someserver.com/internettv.aspx - which would simply redirect you to a correct mceondemand url.

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