Bug#427675: vdr-plugin-mplayer: online content in playlist fails

[Jonas Bardino]

Package: vdr-plugin-mplayer
Version: 0.9.15-13
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi VDR devs

I haven't received a response to my direct posting to the
pkg-vdr-dvb-devel list so now I'm trying the official path instead...

I've been trying to find a way to play online video streams directly
using the vdr mplayer plugin, but haven't found a way to do so without
modifying the /usr/share/vdr-plugin-mplayer/mplayer script.
If I save the source url in a '.pls' file, the 'readable file' test
in the script fails, because the extracted "FILE" is not a local file.
However, if I disable the readable check for online sources, it works.
As far as I can see, the read check was added specifically in the
deb version of the script as a part of a merge between two example
scripts. The 'vanilla' version does not include this check and thus
works.
I've attached a simple patch that works for me. Please feel free to
include it directly or in a modified version.

An online copy of the patch is available from my last post in the list
archive as well:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-vdr-dvb-devel/attachments/20070508/8fbeb271/mplayer.bin

Btw, I'm using mplayer from Marillat's repository, but I don't think
it's related to this bug.

Cheers, Jonas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages vdr-plugin-mplayer depends on:
ii  eject           2.1.4-3                  ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libc6           2.3.6.ds1-13             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1         1:4.1.1-21               GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6      4.1.1-21                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  mplayer         1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linu
ii  vdr             1.4.7-1ctvdr1            Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards

vdr-plugin-mplayer recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
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--- /usr/share/vdr-plugin-mplayer/mplayer.orig	2007-05-08 19:48:33.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/vdr-plugin-mplayer/mplayer	2007-05-08 20:11:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@
     PLS="true"
     PLSFILE="$FILE"
     first=`grep -v -m1 "^#" $FILE`
+    WEBSOURCE=`echo $first|egrep "^(mms|mmst|http|http_proxy|rtp|rtsp|ftp|udp|unsv|smb|mpst|tivo)://"`
     FILE="$first"
   ;;
   *)
@@ -522,7 +523,7 @@
 
 
 if test -z "$FILE"; then echolog "*** USAGE: mplayer.sh <File_to_be_played>"; exit; fi
-if ! test -r "$FILE"; then echolog "*** ERROR: Make sure $FILE exists and is readable - otherwise it cannot be played ;-)"; exit; fi
+if test -z "$WEBSOURCE" -a ! test -r "$FILE"; then echolog "*** ERROR: Make sure $FILE exists and is readable - otherwise it cannot be played ;-)"; exit; fi
 
 # Check if config file exists!
 declare CFGFIL="/etc/vdr/plugins/vdrmplayer.sh.conf"