Online Media Files

[realsamurai]

hi
My problem is very specific.
I want to build my own “online media” page for WiiMC using ASP.NET.
Since it isn’t anywhere documented how those files work I am using one of the pre-configured ones (Navi-Xtreme Media Portal) as an example.

I can get it to work when I put a normal text document, created with windows notepad, on the server.
All the things like

version=7

background=XXX

logo=XXX

title=XXX

description=XXX

and the #-spacing characters are pretty much not required as I figured out.
My test-textfile looks like this:

type=video

name=OMG1

thumb=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/l8p_d9aV99g/default.jpg

URL=http://bogus.com

player=default

type=video

name=OMG2

URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nunUHrlK4Qk

player=default

It works pretty well in WiiMC. I have uploaded it here: http://chaosstory.net/public/wiimctest

But now the problem comes with a file gererated with ASP.NET.
I have created one that should have exact the same content, but generated by code, here: http://chaosstory.net/aspx/subscriptions.aspx

The MIME-Type is “text/plain” in case that is important.
(I tested a little with that. The working textfile is just “.htm” btw.)

The thing is – it doesn’t work.

When I include the fancy stuff like “version=7” and all that WiiMC will just display “Error loading file”.
Without those tags it will generate a list like this (note “URL” and “thumbs” are missing for some reason):

In a normal browser both files look the same.
I am using ASCII character 10 for new line (13 always gets me “Error loading file”). (“Environment.NewLine” in .NET also works)
Also I am using the default encoding. (Changing it to, say, unicode won’t work eigher).

Please could someone who knows about those files help me?
I am really lost and can’t figure out what I am doing wrong.
If it’s with the file, the encoding, the plain fact it’s ‘aspx’ or the MIME…
It would be easy to fix (I guess) if the “Error loading file” message would display some additional debug-information or if it would display the files content as WiiMC “sees” it.

Thank you very much!

[vvc]

Don’t know if I can help you, but when I open the files in IE7 the files look different. (firefox showed me exactly the same files) The test file is without any ‘returns’ at the end of the sentence and the aspx-file does contain ‘returns’.

Maybe you could make a workaround and find out in the process what’s keeping WiiMC from understanding your file.

[WhizzBang]

Matti-Koopa…

I work directly with Team Navi-X on the project. If you have any questions about .plx playlists, e-mail me and we can talk about it or head over to our forums…

Forums
http://navix.turner3d.net/forums/

Email
xiRoNBiLLx@gmail.com

Also…
http://website.navi-x.org/Navi-X%20Manual_April2009.pdf

Pages 14 and 15 of the original manual explain what playlists are and what each tag means… know that as long as you are using correct tags and tagging items in a playlist properly, WiiMC should parse them without problems. There are exceptions, so either head to our forums or reach out to me with your questions.

iRoNBiLL

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