al jazeera video

[mexjrm]

Does anyone have a working url for al jazeera live english tv.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ works with a browser but not on the PBO.

[amirtai]

Since it's a media player so in theory as long as your Windows media player is able to play a link that should be played in the PBO (which is not true 100% so far due to lack of some codec support).

What I did I added the Al-Jazeera podcast to my metafeed favorite and it did work for me, you can give it a try:

http://feeds.aljazeera.net/video/listeningpost

Amir

[Busy]

Since it's a media player so in theory as long as your Windows media player is able to play a link that should be played in the PBO (which is not true 100% so far due to lack of some codec support).

What I did I added the Al-Jazeera podcast to my metafeed favorite and it did work for me, you can give it a try:

http://feeds.aljazeera.net/video/listeningpost

Amir

Amir:

I am a newbie, could you explain how to add a new link to the metafeed favorits?

Busy

[aasoror]

Create a metafeeds accounts (on www.metafeeds.com)
create a new channel (or add it to your favorits) and add the link there.
Best of luck,

Amir:

I am a newbie, could you explain how to add a new link to the metafeed favorits?

Busy

[ridzy]

Watch Al Jazeera Live, Breaking News, Hot Debates, Hard Hitting Talkshows and Latest Al Jazeera Videos on Vidjin.com. Al Jazeera English's global footprint continues to grow and now broadcasts to more than 220 million households on six continents in more than 100 countries.

AlJazeera Live Tv

[snappy46]

@asadali0000;

If you are going to copy and paste verbatum someone else post at least have the decency to include a link to the post. There are relevant information about setting up mediatomb on this thread that the user might find useful. That being said I don't think that mediatomb will be a solution to watch those feeds unless you enter every single link in the database and if you are going to do that then you might as well use metafeeds as mentioned by aasoror. Mediatomb does not parse rss feeds (well a few exception) but rather present those feeds to the PBO in a format that the PBO can understand. It is a UPNP server with some parcing capability for some very specific feeds (Apple Trailer, YouTube etc...) where the database is dynamically being build.

To parse a wide selection of video rss feeds I recommend PlayON or twonky UPNP server which must be run on your PC vs the PBO. You could also use the PBO capability and build some kind of RSS parser for this specific Web site but that is not for the fainted heart and things can get pretty complicated real quick. How complexe this is mainly depends on the implementation of the actual feed. If the feed provides some kind of XML feed that follow a certain standard then it is pretty straight forward but if the information needs to be strip (parse) from an actual HTML page then this approach alone does not work and you need some php script to be run to parse the data (link, thumbnail etc ...) from the HTML page.

Anyhow here's the link for mediatomb installation on the PBO: http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/...-Server-on-PBO

Thank you for your understanding.

Snappy46

[aasoror]

@asadali0000;

If you are going to copy and paste verbatum someone else post at least have the decency to include a link to the post.

Spammers are getting pretty creative these days ..
the whole post was meant to promote the link in the signature

Edit: Fixed

[snappy46]

Spammers are getting pretty creative these days ..
the whole post was meant to promote the link in the signature

Edit: Fixed

Thanks aasoror I guess I missed that; when I saw the poorly written post I knew it was my writing . Kind of snap a little bit on that one.

Cheers !!!

[Bludgeon]

This has not been tested yet (I'm still relatively new to PBO modding), but I think I've found a RSS feed for Al Jazeera: http://feeds.aljazeera.net/podcasts/...eam?format=xml

I'm still studying the contents of /usr/local/bin/scripts, but if you add the following to video_rss_news.rss, you should see a new item under Video News:

<item>
<title>Al Jazeera</title>
<link>http://feeds.aljazeera.net/podcasts/thestream?format=xml</link>
<media:thumbnail url="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/180/270/mritems/Images/2011/5/31/2011531843277371_20.jpg" width="120" height="90" />
</item>

I'm using aasoror's semi-official P70R2(BCN) firmware.

I haven't found a better feed for AJ, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.