I released version 0.1-11 of
Freecity Mod, my player for the french ISP "Free". The concept is a multimedia application build around VLC, with an SQL-based backend, able to stream over http onto the freebox or any other destination. The source of the streams can be DVD, videos from streaming sites, images, sound etc.
It is entirely written in Perl5, more precisely modperl - to run within Apache2.2.
Demos available at
Freecity Mod Videos, dailymotion. The packages are available at the
SourceForge Freecity Mod Download page.
Right now, only the streaming sites are functionnal - here is a snapshot:
Just install the package (install Perl5 and Apache.2.2 beforehand on Windows), make sure you have a VLC binary that is not MPEG-2 orphaned (like on debian because of s/w patents...), and go to
http://localhost:8080.
French people must configure something else on their router to get it on the TV -; they should (have to) know.
In fact freecity could run, I believe, with many other ISP boxes that are able to receive an stream from VLC.
With the french ISP's box, so-called the freebox, there is a big constraint: HTML-3.2 and nothing else (no frame, cookies, javascript, etc...). That's why the output of freecity is rather static - nevertheless there is javascript to handle all modern browsers, in case you access Freecity from your PC.
So yes, with Freecity, you can watch on your TV a lot of videos that comes from famous video streaming sites, e.g. YouTube, DailyMotion, Megavideo, etc...