Totem Arte+7 Plugin
During the Christmas holiday I wrote a Totem plugin to watch video streams from the Arte+7 website. Sadly this service is only available for IPs from Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Guillaume Desmottes released a similar plugin for Moovida some days ago, which I was not aware of when I started my project. Arte is the only TV channel that I watch regularly. I like their documentaries, the European news flash and the music magazine ‘Tracks’ (available in German or French).
You can pull it from here: gitorious.org/totem-plugin-arte. It’s probably the first useful Totem plugin implemented in Vala. Your feedback is very welcome.
foreground noise 
wow! this is pretty cool!
what is needed to compile this?
ubuntu packages anyone? 🙂
z
December 30, 2009 at 11:04 pm
There is no release available yet. But it’s very easy to compile. You can install it to ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/ Details can be found in the README file.
Simon Wenner
December 30, 2009 at 11:17 pm
does not build:
[goetz@n5 mainline (master)]$ make
valac -C arteplus7.vala –thread –pkg libsoup-2.4 –pkg gee-1.0 –pkg totem –vapidir=./deps
arteplus7.vala:175.53-175.61: error: Expected initializer of type `GLib.MarkupParserTextFunc’ but got `ArteParser.proc_text’
MarkupParser parser = {open_tag, close_tag, proc_text, null, null};
^^^^^^^^^
arteplus7.vala:175.22-175.74: error: expression type not allowed as initializer
MarkupParser parser = {open_tag, close_tag, proc_text, null, null};
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
arteplus7.vala:176.47-176.52: error: The name `parser’ does not exist in the context of `ArteParser.parse’
var context = new MarkupParseContext (parser, MarkupParseFlags.TREAT_CDATA_AS_TEXT, this, null);
^^^^^^
Compilation failed: 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)
make: *** [all] Fehler 1
Götz
December 30, 2009 at 11:31 pm
What’s your Vala version? Vala >= 0.7.8 is needed.
Simon Wenner
December 30, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I have vala 0.7.9.
Götz
December 30, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Thanks for testing it! A paramter changed in the bindings. I commited a fix. Now Vala >= 0.7.9 is needed.
Simon Wenner
December 31, 2009 at 12:22 am
Geat ! sadly, compilation failed here (ubuntu karmic 64) :
valac -C arteplus7.vala –thread –pkg libsoup-2.4 –pkg gee-1.0 –pkg totem –vapidir=./deps
arteplus7.vala:175.53-175.61: error: Expected initializer of type `GLib.MarkupParserTextFunc’ but got `ArteParser.proc_text’
MarkupParser parser = {open_tag, close_tag, proc_text, null, null};
^^^^^^^^^
arteplus7.vala:175.22-175.74: error: expression type not allowed as initializer
MarkupParser parser = {open_tag, close_tag, proc_text, null, null};
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
arteplus7.vala:176.47-176.52: error: The name `parser’ does not exist in the context of `ArteParser.parse’
var context = new MarkupParseContext (parser, MarkupParseFlags.TREAT_CDATA_AS_TEXT, this, null);
^^^^^^
Compilation failed: 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)
make: *** [all] Erreur 1
zsh: exit 2 make
Olivier.
nemolivier
December 30, 2009 at 11:38 pm
here, my vala version is 0.7.9-1 from awn ppa.
nemolivier
December 30, 2009 at 11:43 pm
ok, mine is Vala 0.7.8. I have to look into that problem.
Simon Wenner
December 30, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I commited a patch. Thanks for testing.
Simon Wenner
December 31, 2009 at 12:23 am
Thanks. Watching Arte+7 now.
Götz
December 31, 2009 at 12:29 am
Hi, and thanks! I was able to compile & install without problems on Ubuntu karmic 32-bit. And the plugin is working just fine for me with Arte français.
The vala compiler package was called valac rather than just vala which is in the README.
Otherwise though, everything seems to be working fine. Thank you, this is a very nice addition for totem.
It would be neat to know how many days of the +7 have passed to know how many opportunities there are to see a given program, would that be possible? Of course, it’s easy to look with a web browser, too.
Happy New Year!
anon
December 31, 2009 at 12:11 am
Thanks for the feedback.I patched the Readme. Displaying the time that is left is possible. I’m just unsure where to place it. A description would be nice too… maybe as a tooltip.
Simon Wenner
December 31, 2009 at 12:31 am
Just a little correction: Arte+7 seems to be available in Austria too.
Dominik
December 31, 2009 at 6:30 am
Thanks, I will add Austria.
Simon Wenner
December 31, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Thank you. Very cool plugin.
It throws an error on compiling, but I can install and use it nevertheless.
(Ubuntu Karmic, valac 0.7.9 from ppa)
valac -C arteplus7.vala –thread –pkg libsoup-2.4 –pkg gee-1.0 –pkg totem –vapidir=./deps
gcc -shared -fPIC `pkg-config –cflags –libs glib-2.0 libsoup-2.4 gee-1.0 gtk+-2.0 totem-plparser` -o libarteplus7.so arteplus7.c -I./deps -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE=”\”totem-arte\””
arteplus7.c: In function ‘arte_parser_parse’:
arteplus7.c:728: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
arteplus7.c: In function ‘_arte_plugin_callback_select_video_in_tree_view_gtk_tree_view_row_activated’:
arteplus7.c:1212: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘arte_plugin_callback_select_video_in_tree_view’ from incompatible pointer type
arteplus7.c:300: note: expected ‘struct GtkWidget *’ but argument is of type ‘struct GtkTreeView *’
Benny
December 31, 2009 at 12:19 pm
These warnings are minor bugs in the Vala compiler. They will be fixed in Vala 1.0. Don’t worry. 🙂
Simon Wenner
December 31, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Hi, thank you for this useful plugin !
I manage to package it for karmic i386.
See here : http://malaria.perso.sfr.fr/
It’s hacky (first time I ever package something) but it seems to work.
Malaria
December 31, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Thanks. You may add the valac dependency to the “depends” section as well.
Benny
December 31, 2009 at 2:08 pm
It’s a build depend.
I remove it from my computer and the binary still work.
Malaria
December 31, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Forget to mention that I had to hack the make file (for adding the DESTDIR variable) and I also manage to install it into /usr/lib/totem/plugins/arte (this way the plugin is available for all users)
Malaria
December 31, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Works fine here (Ubuntu Karmic Koala), however i didn’t find vala 0.7.9 in the awn PPA as stated by nemolivier (thereis a vala here but it is 0.7.7), but in the vala PPA.
Great job anyway !
Zanko
December 31, 2009 at 2:13 pm
This is great!
I installed the updates from ppa:vala-team/ppa and everything worked fine.
Very usefull plugin.
Martin
January 1, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I have prepared a Mandriva package, I’ll submit it as soon as there is an “official” release from you.
I have one suggestion for improvement: a search field would be useful for me.
Götz
January 1, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I think that language and quality settings should go into a plugin setting dialog, because we usually don’t change these often. And this way there will be more space for a potential search field.
What do you think ?
Malaria
January 1, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Yes, that’s also the schema that I had in mind. But fist we need to save the plugin state in gconf or better dconf (Gsettings). Patches are welcome 🙂
Simon Wenner
January 1, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I set up a ppa for this plugin here :
https://launchpad.net/~malaria/+archive/ppa
The good point is that an amd64 package is now available.
(I will try to keep it updated)
Malaria
January 1, 2010 at 9:23 pm
I now get an error message “Location not found.” when trying to watch a video with the plugin, with the following output in the console :
Could not read packet header: Success
** Message: no file info
** Message: Error: Resource not found.
gstrtspsrc.c(3832): gst_rtspsrc_send (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstRTSPSrc:source:
Not Found
Zanko
January 1, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Has it ever worked? mms and wmv is needed. Have you installed gstreamer-plugins-bad and -ugly?
Simon Wenner
January 2, 2010 at 1:26 pm
It worked fine yesterday, and… it work again. I haven’t done anything, not even restarting my session since. Don’t understand.
I tried more than once before bothering you, restarting totem many times and it keeped saying me this. And now, I can’t reproduce, while having done nothing since (or I don’t see what)… Sorry…
Zanko
January 2, 2010 at 5:02 pm
works great! thanks!
Is it possible to write a plugin for streaming content of the pro7 website?
z
January 2, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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January 20, 2010 at 7:25 am
Thanks for your effort with the plugin! It works great on amd64.
A nice feature would be to list the tags, runtime and duration of each broadcast.
jnns
January 26, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Thanks for the release, totem-plugin-arte is now in Mandriva Cooker and in Mandriva 2010.0 backports.
Götz
February 16, 2010 at 11:28 am
Great! Is there a link I could add to my page?
Simon Wenner
February 16, 2010 at 1:53 pm
No, there is no link, users can simply install it with the distribution’s installer urpmi. They just need to enable the backports repository.
Götz
February 16, 2010 at 1:55 pm
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February 16, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Hi Simon.
This is very interesting. I was also thinking about creating a plugin to watch lastest news in spanish media websites 🙂
Good work!
Pablo Castellano
February 16, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Thank you very much!
Very good work!
And thanks Arte too!
Boke
March 17, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Very Good!
Thank you very much!
dge
April 16, 2010 at 7:35 am
Great job!!! very useful plugin :))
Milan
April 18, 2010 at 7:07 am
Thanks a lot! Nice job!
Yann
April 20, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Great plugin.
Would love to have a summary of the video content with each thumbnail. (like they do it on the website.)
Thank you.
Juego
May 26, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Thanks.
Version 0.8.4 provides a ‘teaser’ text in the mouse-over message of the image. That’s all I get from the video feed.
Simon Wenner
May 26, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Best video plugin ever, instructions for debian and ubuntu for french speakers here : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=369659
kyncani
June 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Thanks a lot, it’s great ! Arte was the only channel that I missed since I have no tv.
jeyenkil
June 30, 2010 at 11:55 am
hello,
I would like to share with the developer in the links of videos that are “mms ://… .Wmv” always gives the same message in English (my French, not understand) and it is impossible to see this videos links via vlc or other.
Thank you, goodbye …
veve-mao
July 12, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Ein kleiner Hinweis: Das Plugin ist mittlerweile in den Ubuntu Paketquellen enthalten! Siehe
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Totem/Plugins
info
July 4, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Thank you very much for this plugin! On 11.10 it took me less than a minute to install it and… wow!
Just wonderful! You are the best!
Jessica
April 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Thanks. I’m glad you like it. 🙂
Simon Wenner
April 2, 2012 at 5:09 pm
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July 6, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Hello,
it seems that arte has changed their URL, is it possible to update it?
thomas
August 1, 2013 at 9:06 am
We are aware of the problem and we are working on a new release. Please be patient.
Simon Wenner
September 6, 2013 at 7:57 pm