Installation - SharkHunter/Channel GitHub Wiki
The installation of the Channel plugin might not be as simple as one would like it to be. This is mostly due to the external scripts etc. that are required. Here follows a more detailed description with links to all the scripts.
One Click Install
If you want the absolute simplest install possible of Channels etc. consider installing the SharkHunter Build. This is a custom PMS build bundled with all the program,plugins and scripts described here.
Simple Install
For the absolute minimum to installation follow these instructions:
- Make sure you have installed PMSEncoder. This is pre-installed in some PMS builds.
- Download the plugin jar and place it in the PMS
plugins
directory. - Download RTMPdump. Place this in a good place (for example c:\rtmpdump.exe)
- (Re)start PMS and click the "General Configuration" tab. In the bottom there will be a button labeled "Channels" (if it isn't wait a while).
- Set the RTMPDump path to where you put RTMPDump (=c:\rtmpdump.exe for example).
- Press Install/Update
- Restart PMS
Normal installation
- Download the plugin jar and place it in the PMS
plugins
directory. - Download Channel files you need and place them in a new directory.
- If you plan to use the get-flash-videos script (this is mandatory for the Megavideo items in the Icefilms channel) you'll also need to fetch the get-flash-videos Perl script. This can be found here. This script has some additional Perl module dependencies. See here for more details.
- Restart PMS and all should be done.
Alternative Install
As an alternative the plugin has (from 0.44) a simple GUI install. To use the GUI install follow these steps:
- Make sure you have installed PMSEncoder. This is pre-installed in some PMS builds.
- Download the plugin jar and place it in the PMS
plugins
directory. - Download RTMPdump.
- Download any other program you'll need (like SopCast,PPLive,Perl,Python).
- (Re)start PMS and click the "General Configuration" tab. In the bottom there will be a button labeled "Channels" (if it isn't wait a while).
- Configure the paths where you want to have your channel files,scripts,programs etc.
- Once you have fixed all your paths press "Install/Update" which will fetch all .ch files.
- Restart PMS.
This solves all problems but the get_flash_video issue. This still needs to be updated manually since it requires some Perl modules etc.
Upgrading
When a new version of Channels is out (and there are new versions now and then) you normally don't need to reinstall any scripts/programs. Simply just put the new plugin jar in the plugins
directory and restart PMS. If there are new (or updated) .ch files simply run the GUI again and just press "Install/Update". You don't need to modify any paths.