Play video on Dreambox proxy server

Server for the "Play video on Dreambox" android app.

Accepts an URL, runs youtube-dl on it to extract the video URL and lets the Dreambox satellite receiver play this file.

Setup

Point your web server's document root to the www/ directory.

Altenatively symlink the www/play.php file into your document root directory.

Configuration

You can adjust the path to youtube-dl and the Dreambox host name or IP address by creating a config file in data/config.php.

Simply copy data/config.php.dist onto data/config.php and adjust it.

If your dreambox web interface is password protected, add the username and password to the $dreamboxUrl configuration variable:

$dreamboxUrl = 'http://user:pass@dreambox';

Usage

Send the web site URL via POST to play.php:

$ curl -XPOST --data http://example.org/page.htm\
      -H 'Content-type: text/plain'\
      http://proxy.example.org/play.php

You can test it on command line, too:

$ php www/play.php http://example.org/page.htm

Testing the URL selection without playing on the dreambox is possible:

$ php www/play.php http://example.org/page.htm --dry-run

License

This application is available under the AGPL v3 or later.

Author

Written by Christian Weiske, cweiske@cweiske.de