Re: Original Xbox clients hacks

[Samuel CUELLA <samuel cuella supinfo com>]

On 22/01/17 22:08, Jens Georg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Responding to myself since I've found out what was the problem. The
> > server server just sends "options" to the client, and it's up to the
> > client to decide and make use of whichever resource it finds
> > suitable.
> >
> > The trick off invalidating the resource mime_type only works because
> > the
> > Xbox 360 will seemingly make its decision on the mime_type and thus
> > any
> > resource having incorrect/unsupported mime_type will be discarded.
> >
> > Reading xbmc4xbox code I've found that it will just take the very
> > first
> > resource available for each item. Easy to do. I've also found that
> > xbmc4xbox doesn't always advertise itself as such: during browsing
> > it
> > uses the User-Agent of its underlying library: platinium.
>
> Yes, that's the usual behaviour of Kodi/XBMC since forever.
>
> What I've done:
> > -Client hack to make the MPEG_TS_SD_EU_ISO first in list
> > -Try xbmc4xbox client hack before the XBox360 client hack to avoid
> > conficts
> > -Use the specific version of platinium in the agent string to avoid
> > conflicts with recent versions of Kodi.
> >
> > Here is the patch:
>
> First, thanks for analyzing this and making a patch, much appreciated
> :)

You're welcome !

> The Ususal way of submitting patches is bugzilla for better review and
> tracking.

Ok, will do.


> The "platinum" user agent also applies to the XBMC/Kodi hacks which
> need some fiddling with mime-types, also I don't like that specific
> version. Is there anything more distinct to the xbmc4xbox?

Exactly, that's what I included the specific version used by xbmc4xbox to
not interfere with other platforms. I don't like it either... here is what
xbmc4xbox uses as user-agents:

Browsing: Platinum/0.5.3.0, DLNADOC/1.50
Getting files: XBMC/3.5.3-r33027 (Xbox; http://www.xbmc.org)

Without patching xbmc4xbox I don't see that many options.