[IDEA] Video Streaming Browser

[Darkguy]

Hey guys,

love XBian and XBMC and all the add-ons that make watching many video streaming sites (YouTube, Vimeo, on-demand streaming from tv channels, etc.) possible. Sadly, there aren't plug-ins available for many sites and some of them are so obscure/non-mainstream that I'm afraid there never will be anybody dissecting the site enough to make a working add-on.

As a pro-wrestling/MMA fan, I like to buy iPPVs from sites such as UStream.tv, UFC.tv, WWNLive.com, SMVOD.com, RFVideoNow.com, HighSpots.com or ROHWrestling.com. All of these work fine in a browser, as it's usually just some sort of MP4-stream anyway, embedded in an HTML5-video-container or at worst, a flash-based video-player.

So an idea would be, why not have an (optional) HTML5 and maybe Flash capable browser (Midori? Chromium?) in XBian to launch for sites that can't be browsed from within XBMC? Maybe have an "application" in XBMC that will quit XBMC and launch such a browser and once the browser process stops (browser is being closed), relaunches XBMC.

Would that be a feasable idea and would others also be interested to look into it?

[IriDium]

This topic has been discussed before as Web Browser. Browser

Even if you could get it running with a script (That has also been discussed somewhere) it's doubtful if the little Pi could handle XBMC and a X server very well. Especially as you see how slow Midori is on Raspbian.

You easiest option if you have HDMI is to just buy another Pi run Rasbian on that and just switch HDMI from Rasbian to Xbian.