Begging scripters for internet-TV "links" script...

[ezkimo]

The TV-flash "link" sites are popping up everywhere

www.tv-links.co.uk, www.peekvid.com, www.dailymotionepisodes.com, tv-links.co.uk, www.allfg.org and www.dailyepisodes.com

my favorite is peekvid.com.

[JayF0RCE]

+1 Tv-links ftw. Been hunting for a script a while now,

[xino]

download LinksBoks. and watch your Peekvid like that:P

tobad it doesn't support Flash nor Mpg

[boast]

it would be awesome
:nod:

[DReffects]

OMFG!! didnt even know such a site exists - that would be AWESOME!!! every episode of every show at my doorstep!

+100

[Geeba]

Geeessss... just browsed http://www.tv-links.co.uk/ Theres freakin everything on there!! this is better than Joost!!!! man I wish I knew how to script!!!!!!!

Please someone has to write this!!!

[joesnose]

have to bump this one up, a tv links script would be awsome.

[Livin]

as for TV Shows none of the site I saw are up-to-date... they they are at least a few episodes behind.

If you keep up with TV series then it is better to use torrents to keep current.

[mrz]

I'll give it a try

[Stonker]

The only problem I can see with this, is that the episodes are in different formats. I just had to download "DivX web viewer" on my PC for Life on Mars.
These would have to be included in the script I assume?

[HarshReality]

There is an alternative... if I recall there is a plugin for firefox somewhere where you can submit a link and it dumps it to your xbmc as a stream so it plays it (not certain that is exactly what it does or how but you should get the jist of it). At any rate, it sowrked wonderfully for sites like youtube and the like.. give it a try and see what it does....

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=505654&st=0

[deadelvis]

Only thing that needs to be done is to convert the different pages to an rss feed, with each video link in <enclosure> tags. Done it before for another site using php and Snoopy class - http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/ .

Then you can just use a script like this on the xbox - http://www.matthewtuffin.co.uk/Blog/index.php?itemid=49 - (great script btw! use it daily.) to stream in the content via rss.

I'll take a swing at it when I have time... or any of you can just go ahead and try doing it using any free html to rss free service like these (yeah.. no scripting skills required whatsoever):

http://feed43.com/
http://www.feedity.com/

PS:
it kind of bugs me why media streaming via rss hasn't been natively implemented yet in XBMC.

[stanley87]

The only problem I can see with this, is that the episodes are in different formats. I just had to download "DivX web viewer" on my PC for Life on Mars.
These would have to be included in the script I assume?

XBMC has a huge range of codecs etc, shouldn't be a problem!

[Geeba]

Did anyone move with this?... Man I wish I knew how to code! :sad:

[wvstephens]

I would love to see a script for Tv-links.co.uk here is the link to the database

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/index.do/4

It would be an awesome addition to everyones xbmc.

[mique1]

I can only assume there are no scripters viewing this forum, it is a shame as so many users would really like this tv-links script.
fingers crossed someone stumbles across our request.

[sh0stak]

Well I just got my XBMC working and am also a huge lover of tv-links. I am thinking about looking into writing a script for this, but I have never used python (too bad there is no Ruby interpreter for XBMC :sniffle: ). I think I am going to give it a shot anyway though and see how it goes. I will be out of town for Million Man LAN for a few days, but I'll try and get a little something working as soon as I can... if I can.

[wvstephens]

There is an alternative... if I recall there is a plugin for firefox somewhere where you can submit a link and it dumps it to your xbmc as a stream so it plays it (not certain that is exactly what it does or how but you should get the jist of it). At any rate, it so wrked wonderfully for sites like youtube and the like.. give it a try and see what it does....

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=505654&st=0

I have used and currently use the xbmc fox but for some reason or another most of the links I send to my xbox don't seem to work. Actually I think I got one to work from Tv-links. That is why I was looking for a script for this site. I am trying to make one but I am having limited success getting the xml. with all of the show links.

[stanley87]

I was thinking about maybe teaming up with bootsy and getting this out - not till XinBox V.1.0 is finished tho.

Will keep ya posted

[wvstephens]

I was thinking about maybe teaming up with bootsy and getting this out - not till XinBox V.1.0 is finished tho.

Will keep ya posted


Thank you so much for your working on this script. I have tried a few things but I am not a coder so I did not manage to do anything.

Thank you again this script will get a lot of use I am sure.

[pvtschlag]

I started work on a script for this last night, and I have come quite far.

Right now I have the TVLinks.co.uk site fully navigable, and support for playing any of the videos that are in divx(stage6) or flv(youtube, veoh, tudou, ect) whwich I think covers at least 80% of the videos from what I've seen.

All that I have left to do before my first release is to fix a few minor bugs and add support for the links that point to swfs, iframes, and similar.

Expect the release by the end of this coming week, probably within the next few days though.

[sh0stak]

glad to hear someone has made progress on this. I just spent a couple hours going thru the joox.net script and trying to see how hard it would be to modify for tv-links. The problem I ran into was finding the address for the videos on the hosted site. The tv-links urls are based on category/show/id type scheme but how does this relate to the external links? I'd be really interested if you could explain how you figured that out.

thanks

[wvstephens]

Definatly thanks for the work on this script. I have tried to no avail I could not get it to work properly. I look forward to this script. Thanks again.

[rochdalemark]

Looking forward to this script coming out..
:nod:

[wvstephens]

Anyone have any more progress reports for the script?

[sh0stak]

Nope... I really wish pvtschlag would at least come back to answer my question about resolving the external links. If I could get that done I don't think I would have to much trouble putting a script together myself. Can anyone else here figure out how tv-links indexes the hosted videos? I looked through the page source quite a bit but can't pull anything from it.

[mynumbistongue]

if this helps here is an xml of tv-links http://www.nettwo.ca/xml/tv-links.xml

[sh0stak]

Well that is pretty nice but doesn't get me much further. I'm at work right now so I cant try this, but can anyone play a stream on their xbox using the following link - tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/267/676/10744/18220 ? (as in make a text file with it and try and play the text file). If that works then this should be easy, but I am pretty sure I need the direct URL of the stream, not the tv-links URL, to get it to play.

[mynumbistongue]

Just tried it doesnt work. I'm talking with someone now who is telling me how to scrape url's from tv-links I'll get back to ya.

[sh0stak]

okay great. cant wait to figure out the secret heh

[mynumbistongue]

I dont know the guy didnt respond but why not try and develope a scriopt for alluc.org this site gives you direct links to movies and tv shows

[sh0stak]

well I had never heard of alluc so I might give it a shot and use it as a template for when I figure out the tv-links urls. There are some things tv-links has the alluc doesn't so this wouldnt be a complete solution

[pvtschlag]

I have been letting my dad test this all week long.(he has watched nothing else but shows on it) I think I will go ahead and release what I got so far later tonight/early morning.

As far as the links go it is really hard to explain. I basically just made the script act the same way a browser would when it is used to view the site.

[wvstephens]

I have been letting my dad test this all week long.(he has watched nothing else but shows on it) I think I will go ahead and release what I got so far later tonight/early morning.

As far as the links go it is really hard to explain. I basically just made the script act the same way a browser would when it is used to view the site.


Release it, release it... goes the little kid with the spoon... If you need to host it I will host it for you just drop me a msg here or email reptilenut(remove)@gmail.com

[BungaDunga]

I did too reply, if you're talking about me, mynumbistongue. I just said I didn't know but would try it out.

I had a go at writing a scraper in PHP. Result:
http://roy.wigginsworld.org/tvlinks/
Once you're on an episode page, click the "Link" link for a link to the actual .flv or .divx (good for downloading!). I'll work on it so you don't have to click that last link, it shouldn't be necessary. There's no player implemented but that shouldn't be hard. Speaking of which, I would think that trying to stream from an offsite source would trigger cross-site loading restrictions in flash.

It's really relatively easy to do, I knocked my version up in a few hours. I used an http-browser class that lets you easily make requests and so on. The following regexp seemed to work for most:

/embed(.+?) src\="(.+?)"(.+?)>/


Youtube:

/flashvars\="config=\{videoFile: \'(.+?)\'/

(God, I hate regular expressions. Pretend the slashes are there and think of the parentheses as wildcards.)

I then retrieved the "Location" header information for that use-once url to get the location it redirects to. I think there's a firefox extension out there that sends a url to XBMC from firefox; you should be able to use the url my thing gets. A Python solution is obviously much much better as you can get stuff right with the xbox.

Once pvtschlag releases his I really have to network my xbox. It's sitting down in my basement a wall and a room away from the nearest Cat5.

[BungaDunga]

Whoops. I think I broke it. Fixing...

[BungaDunga]

Fixed (can you edit posts?). It works for most episodes. One thing you can do is take the URL, paste it into VLC, and stream it with that. That way you can do deinterlacing and all that to make it look nicer than what you get with a flash player.

[rdeman]

hi folks. could anybody please update me: I would love to watch the shows from http://tv-links.co.uk/ on my XBMC (especially the 'Lost' TV series) Now I have been reading the forum but I cannot find a final answer to this question:

Can I watch the shows on http://tv-links.co.uk/ on my XBMC and if yes, how?

[rdeman]

I am pretty sure I can write some PHP or Java code that generates a RSS feed from http://tv-links.co.uk/ ... but.. how do I play RSS video feeds on the XBMC? Which plugin do I use?

Only thing that needs to be done is to convert the different pages to an rss feed, with each video link in <enclosure> tags. Done it before for another site using php and Snoopy class - http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/ .

Then you can just use a script like this on the xbox - http://www.matthewtuffin.co.uk/Blog/index.php?itemid=49 - (great script btw! use it daily.) to stream in the content via rss.

I'll take a swing at it when I have time... or any of you can just go ahead and try doing it using any free html to rss free service like these (yeah.. no scripting skills required whatsoever):

http://feed43.com/
http://www.feedity.com/

PS:
it kind of bugs me why media streaming via rss hasn't been natively implemented yet in XBMC.

[pvtschlag]

http://pvtschlag.com//tvlinks/tvlinks.zip

Please note that it still doesn't support playback for all of the videos yet.

Also I am VERY new to python and coding for xbmc so the GUI isn't the best.
If anybody wants to help out by coding that part to make it look better for everyone then please do it.

I am using rev8582 T3CH build, I do not know if or how well it will run on any others.

Hope the shows you want to watch are the ones working so far. >.<

[wvstephens]

Fixed (can you edit posts?). It works for most episodes. One thing you can do is take the URL, paste it into VLC, and stream it with that. That way you can do deinterlacing and all that to make it look nicer than what you get with a flash player.

Bunga thanks for scraping those links. I use the xbmcfox and it works good, your scarpings saves alot of time from click, click, click, click.... LOL. I have been watching most of my shows and movies from stage6 using xbmcfox, it is a process for getting the actual video link but works for me. Your scrapings will surely help me out.

Thanks.

[wvstephens]

http://pvtschlag.com//tvlinks/tvlinks.zip

Please note that it still doesn't support playback for all of the videos yet.

Also I am VERY new to python and coding for xbmc so the GUI isn't the best.
If anybody wants to help out by coding that part to make it look better for everyone then please do it.

I am using rev8582 T3CH build, I do not know if or how well it will run on any others.

Hope the shows you want to watch are the ones working so far. >.<

Thank you so much, nice Beta release I am watching Thundercats right now thanks to your tv-links script. Thank you very very much.

[wvstephens]

Ok here are my thoughts you did a great job, not everything works but hey I am happy with what I have. The only thing I would do is change the background from the blue to maybe black or the leave the background that color and change the text. Other than that looks good and thanks again.

[rdeman]

http://pvtschlag.com//tvlinks/tvlinks.zip

Please note that it still doesn't support playback for all of the videos yet.

Also I am VERY new to python and coding for xbmc so the GUI isn't the best.
If anybody wants to help out by coding that part to make it look better for everyone then please do it.

I am using rev8582 T3CH build, I do not know if or how well it will run on any others.

Hope the shows you want to watch are the ones working so far. >.<

wow, man nice job! I was just working on a set of PHP scripts using Snoopy, HtmlParser, RssGenerator, to do data mining and rip all links in order to generate a RSS feed from everything available at www.tv-links.co.uk
The plan was to feed this TVa-Links-RSS feed into a RSS Video player script running on my XBMC. I was just done finding a way to bypass that hashed 'once' links stuff.

Anyway: the approach to do this all from within a Python plugin running on the Xbox XBMC is mucho better. I just never tried Python. I like to help though.

My first test results: I am much intreste din watching the Lost TV Shows. Most files are hosted at Brightcove. Just try to play Episode 1 - Pilot Part 1 - http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/53/5636/42181/62937

does this work for you guys? I just get audio, no video... ? :eek: great job though!

[pvtschlag]

I just tried out the Lost Episode 1 - Pilot Part 1 and it seems to work for me, both the video and audio.

[pvtschlag]

I have just updated the script to support links that go to the GUBA.com swf player.

This shows a perfect example of ways to add support for new sites if you want to help out with this script.

If you still want to help out but don't know enough about coding to add support for more sites, I could use a list of non-working sites and possible links to their tvlinks url. If anyone is up to the task.

Hope you guys are enjoying it so far. :grin:

[mynumbistongue]

pvtschlag you are the man thanks alot

[mynumbistongue]

Dailymotion seems to be not working here are a couple tvlinks url's

http://tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/111/288/11591/19467
http://tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/111/288/11591/19467

when i come across more non-working sites I'll post

[mynumbistongue]

also google video here are links


http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/39/89/1191/1838
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/39/89/1192/1839
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/39/89/1193/1840

[Blackmarket]

You rock, i signed up just to tell you how excellent you are. hahahah. thanks again.

[JayF0RCE]

Omg, You win :cool: I can now watch tv-links without being limited to my PC monitor.

10x

[rdeman]

To everybody reading this post: I was using an older version of the XBMC which could not play Flash 8 video (VP6.2 Codec). I upgraded my XBMC and now it works :)


My first test results: I am much intreste din watching the Lost TV Shows. Most files are hosted at Brightcove. Just try to play Episode 1 - Pilot Part 1 - http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/53/5636/42181/62937

does this work for you guys? I just get audio, no video... ? :eek: great job though!

[alex_pin]

http://pvtschlag.com//tvlinks/tvlinks.zip


Great Job!!! It works (now watching "Heroes"). Thanks Dude, you rock! :grin:

[deadelvis]

This rocks!!! Thanks!
Gonna check out that code. Nice scraping work. Used to do it with php but this rules! :)

[pvtschlag]

New update. Here is the link again. http://pvtschlag.com//tvlinks/tvlinks.zip

I have added support for Daily Motion and Google Video, thanks mynumbistongue for the links.(btw the Daily motion one you posted had the content removed soon after so it still wont work)

And also a big thanks to 8BitBrad for making a nice new GUI for it, hope you guys like it, I know I do!

And thanks to everybody else for the great feedback. :)

[tstraub]

Great work, This is one the whole family loves. Cartoons for the kids, lots of movies for the wife, and Mythbusters for me! Thanks for the great script.

[tstraub]

I guess i need to refresh a little more often. I was saying how much I liked your script and here you already made it better. The new GUI looks great.

[mynumbistongue]

Found a guba link that dosnt work dont know why but here it is

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/1/111/1471/13482/50522

[mynumbistongue]

By the way thanks again I've been using this script non-stop since yesterday my g/f and daughter are loving it.

[pajretX]

Great job mate! Quite a few link doesn't work (like Sailor Moon - no, I don't watch that.. my wife does ;)) but it doesn't matter!! ;) Thx a lot!

[pvtschlag]

Just made another update fixing the issue with GUBA.

The Sailor Moon ones appear to be hosted with Go Fish so I'll attempt to add support for that site next.

[wvstephens]

WoW I go camping for one night and look what I come home to.
Thank you very very much I love the new Icon and the New Color Scheme much easier to read.

[mby2j]

Thanks very much for the script (signed up especially to say that), everything works brilliantly apart from the movies, might be down to me but as soon as i select a movie title (i have tried a dozen or so) my xbox hangs when trying to get to the next screen where it displays the chapters. Anyone else had this problem? Im running 03.Apr.2007.GasGiver XBMC.

Thanks

[mynumbistongue]

same problem here for some movies

[mby2j]

Just updated my XBMC to the latest T3CH version and im still having the same problem, my xbox still hangs at the same point as before. Not had any success with any movies yet

[mynumbistongue]

Is there any chance that you could put in a playlist option like for movies or shows that have more than 1 part?

[chesh]

pvtschlag, you are a golden god. I bow before your excellence. You have made all of our XBMC's that much cooler! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Like to throw in a suggest, make B go back as well as the back button. That's it. Otherwise, your script 0wns. THANK YOU!

[mynumbistongue]

Ran across more guba links acting weird here they are

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/2/3306/5045/31754/48300
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/2/3306/5045/31755/48301

[Frank Rizzo]

Good Lord it works.

Excellent stuff. Thank you thank you thank you

[pajretX]

pvtschlag > How's progress? Have you fixed anything recently? ;) Speak to us! 'Cus we wait and bleed! :D

[Stonker]

Many thanks for this pvtschlag

Just as a bit of feedback, the fonts is very squashed. When you browse, it's difficult to make out the names of the programs.

It might be beause I'm running in NTSC/720p ?

[wvstephens]

Just for your information, if you upgrade to one of the latest builds of XBMC
most of the links in this script will work. When I realized I was using one of the older builds about 85% of the links did not work, but now since I upgraded most all are working like a charm. Just thought I would let the ones having problems with links not working know about this fix. Thanks for a wonderful script.

[waderb]

wvstephens, what build are you currently using?

[Blackmarket]

Anyone having trouble getting dailymotion streams working? for instance Duckman is all dailymotion if anyone wants to check it out.

[pvtschlag]

Daily motion likes to remove content. Try viewing them from the site and you will see that most have been removed.

As for the other issues I'll look into them.

[wvstephens]

wvstephens, what build are you currently using?

I am using T3ch Rev 9489, it is the newest release.

[chowds]

It all seems to work for me apart from dailymotion links. I get this every time:

21:48:10 M: 19283968 ERROR: CMPlayer::OpenFile http://www.dailymotion.com/flash/flvplayer.swf?1183137044&url=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fget%2F6%2F3 20x240%2Fflv%2F395451.flv%3Fkey%3D385f9e1ef4bbf548 c629e653af7e9f1b12d05ca&prevURL=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8h4s_petit-solo-batterie-yann&nextURL=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8h4q_descente-de-la-cuisse&allowZoom=1 failed with code -1

I'm running t3ch rev 9489 too. Any ideas?

[pheonixstar15]

For me the script plays a few minutes of the video and then stops. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I have the newest build thats available.

[dominater01]

pvtschlag can u put a link on your script for new movie links cuz i would like to know when new movies are there so i dont have to check each time under movies to c if they have a movie that i want to c

[chowds]

For me the script plays a few minutes of the video and then stops. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I have the newest build thats available.

I got that too with veoh streams.

[wvstephens]

Ok I love the script only I don't have the most reliable internet connection, nor the fastest speed. I am not on dial-up but a shared wireless connection with 3 of my neighbors.

Does anyone know of a way to make this script cache more of the video before it starts playing, my goal is to reduce the amount of buffering.

Thanks
Greg

[cricket0]

http://pvtschlag.com//tvlinks/tvlinks.zip

can anyone describe in detail what exactly I have to do after I extract the "pvtschlag tvlinks" zip file to make tvlinks work on my xbmc? Detailed steps would be really appreciated. Thanks.

[cricket0]

can anyone describe in detail what exactly i have to do after I extract the tvlinks zip file to make tvlinks work on my xbmc? i extracted it on my desktop.
Detailed steps would be appreciated. thanks.

[dafunks]

can anyone describe in detail what exactly i have to do after I extract the tvlinks zip file to make tvlinks work on my xbmc? i extracted it on my desktop.
Detailed steps would be appreciated. thanks.

FTp the files inside the ZIP file to your XBOX.

put them in your Scripts folder which is inside th XBMC Dir

I think it is normaly

e:/apps/xbmc/scripts/ <This is where you put the tv links files/folder>

It might be in C:/xbmc/scripts

Depends on where you put the xbmc.

make sure you are using a up2date version of XBMC so it works.

[cricket0]

thanks. sorry i'm a newbie. currently the zip folder is on desktop. i don't have an xbmc folder anywhere in my pc. where do i get it? also, what do you mean by "FTp"?

FTp the files inside the ZIP file to your XBOX.

put them in your Scripts folder which is inside th XBMC Dir

I think it is normaly

e:/apps/xbmc/scripts/ <This is where you put the tv links files/folder>

It might be in C:/xbmc/scripts

Depends on where you put the xbmc.

make sure you are using a up2date version of XBMC so it works.

[wvstephens]

thanks. sorry i'm a newbie. currently the zip folder is on desktop. i don't have an xbmc folder anywhere in my pc. where do i get it? also, what do you mean by "FTp"?

Ok the directories aka. Folders they are talking about is on the xbox not on your pc. First of all is your xbox modded? Second if you are modded are you running XBMC? Third if all of the above is true you need an ftp program to get access to the xbox hard drive. I use Smartftp (search google).

Answer the above questions and I will try to help as much as I can.

Also if you are indeed modded you will need the IP address of your xbox. this will be needed for the FTP program to connect to your xbox.

[cricket0]

no, my xbox is not modded and i'm not running XBMC. i guess we need to start from the beginning:)


Ok the directories aka. Folders they are talking about is on the xbox not on your pc. First of all is your xbox modded? Second if you are modded are you running XBMC? Third if all of the above is true you need an ftp program to get access to the xbox hard drive. I use Smartftp (search google).

Answer the above questions and I will try to help as much as I can.

Also if you are indeed modded you will need the IP address of your xbox. this will be needed for the FTP program to connect to your xbox.

[cricket0]

by the way, i have xbox 360

[tstraub]

XBMC will not run on an xbox 360. You have a lot of reading to do before your ready to run XBMC.
start here
Xbox Media Center Online Manual - XBox Media Center (http://xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xbox_Media_Center_Online_Manual)

Xbox-Scene.com (http://www.xbox-scene.com/)

[Geeba]

Geeeessssss! cant believe the way this has come together in such a short time! :laugh:
Didnt think it would happen now I cant wait to get home and try this!

pvtschlag your a legend!

Thank you very very much

[Geeba]

Tried it last night.... very good on Anni, tv-shows, music videos and documentries.... must admit I had no luck playing any movies? just hangs every time???

Still top job thou! :grin:

[Duex]

Does anyone know if there's an option to save the .divx after you've watched it? Like the the PC you can do that from that site...any help on that would be greatly appreciated!! :)

[wvstephens]

Tried it last night.... very good on Anni, tv-shows, music videos and documentries.... must admit I had no luck playing any movies? just hangs every time???

Still top job thou! :grin:

Yea appears to be a problem, all the movies with the exception of a few were working but now they seem to be freezing up the xbox.

[Duex]

So anyone have any luck in saving the TV-Link streams to their xbox hard drive after its done buffering, etc. Like I said before..you can do it with the divx player when using TV-Links on the PC. Anyone got the save to work on xbox?? :cool:

[SyPhy]

pvtschlag you did an awesome job on this script. I think I can speak for everybody when I say THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is a much needed addition to XBMC. You mentioned that the dailymotion content is frequently removed, which is why it does not work much of the time and you also said to go to the website and try it from there, as it will not work even from the website. Well, I did not find this to be true. For instance, when I try to access the Ying Yang Twins music video "Say I Yi Yi" via your awesome script, it attempts to connect to dailymotion website but does not load the video. However, when I try to access the video directly from the tv-links.co.uk website, it plays fine. This is just one example, I ran across many others that did the same thing. There are 5 or 6 Ying Yang Twins music videos that do that alone. Here is the direct link on the tv-links.co.uk website so you can test it yourself: http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/5/3043

Believe me, I am not bitching about ANYTHING, I am just trying to help you make your script better. If you do not pursue this issue, I will not be disappointed at all. THANKS SO MUCH again!

[deadelvis]

Don´t want to bsound bitchy but... please upgrade to latest XBMC build before reporting bugs, and always mention the build you´re running. As everyone must know there are all kinds of problems with flv playing on earlier builds, and a lot of the problems reported here sound they could be just that.

This would make it sooo much easier to test/debug.

Thanks again for the great script.

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Don't want to step on anyones toes, just want to clarify something..do i need to upgrade to the latest release of xbmc for the script to function correctly? or does the build just need to be recent like lets say the 7-09-07 build? Thanks for the clarification

[waderb]

pvtschlag any word on the gofish functionality you were working on

[SyPhy]

i am running latest XBMC. i just upgraded 2 days ago.

[Unbehagen]

Hey guys,
I changed pvtschlag's great script a bit, so it now matches the design of Project Mayhem III slightly better. I also added code to make the Player show the name of the show in the playback info (If you press "Info" on the remote during playback or in the small thumbnail view in the lower left corner during playback). The graphics are borrowed from the Joox.net script.

You can find it here:
http://theendofthelongestline.de/TVLinksProjectMayhem.zip

Hope you're okay with this, pvtschlag, as you don't mention any license in your scripts.... If not, send me a PM.
Have fun,
Hagen

[davidBZ]

I also just registered for the sole purpose of thanking you for this script. I had a blast last night searching through all of the shows. My build of XMBC is a bit old (June something I believe), but I was also having the daily motion problems mentioned. I also had difficulty navigating back through the menus once I had drilled down through a show.

Thanks again for all your work. I'm about to start a Python scripting job, so after I pick up the basics I may try my hand at some scripts.

[mby2j]

Hey guys,
I changed pvtschlag's great script a bit, so it now matches the design of Project Mayhem III slightly better. I also added code to make the Player show the name of the show in the playback info (If you press "Info" on the remote during playback or in the small thumbnail view in the lower left corner during playback). The graphics are borrowed from the Joox.net script.

You can find it here:
http://theendofthelongestline.de/TVLinksProjectMayhem.zip

Hope you're okay with this, pvtschlag, as you don't mention any license in your scripts.... If not, send me a PM.
Have fun,
Hagen

Ive been having problems with viewing any movies using the original script (everything else worked though). Downloaded your updated version and every movie i have tried has worked up to yet. I don't know if you have updated anything apart from the look and feel but whatever you have done has done the trick for me. Thanks very much!

[Unbehagen]

I don't know if you have updated anything apart from the look and feel but whatever you have done has done the trick for me. Thanks very much!
Maybe you have a buggy or old build of XBMC. The code I changed for displaying the show title during playback maybe influences the way XBMC plays the movie. Instead of telling XBMC directly to play a specific URL, my script stores the URL with the title information in a playlist and tells XBMC to play the playlist.
In case you have difficulties getting other video playback scripts to work, try changing it in the following way:
open default.py in an editor, search for something like:

xbmc.Player(xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_MPLAYER).play(vidlink )

and replace it with:

play=xbmc.PlayList(xbmc.PLAYLIST_VIDEO)
play.clear()
play.add(vidlink,"Name of the show here")
xbmc.Player(xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_MPLAYER).play(play)

[mby2j]

Maybe you have a buggy or old build of XBMC. The code I changed for displaying the show title during playback maybe influences the way XBMC plays the movie. Instead of telling XBMC directly to play a specific URL, my script stores the URL with the title information in a playlist and tells XBMC to play the playlist.
In case you have difficulties getting other video playback scripts to work, try changing it in the following way:
open default.py in an editor, search for something like:

xbmc.Player(xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_MPLAYER).play(vidlink )

and replace it with:

play=xbmc.PlayList(xbmc.PLAYLIST_VIDEO)
play.clear()
play.add(vidlink,"Name of the show here")
xbmc.Player(xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_MPLAYER).play(play)


I'm using the latest T3CH release. The movies do seem to be working better but definitely aren't perfect. After more testing it seems to be 60/40 working for me

[solidz]

For some reason alot of the videos are out of synch with the audio, I have the newest version of XBMC(You can tell by the mouth movement is off from audio). Is anyone else experiancing this?

[Unbehagen]

For some reason alot of the videos are out of synch with the audio, I have the newest version of XBMC(You can tell by the mouth movement is off from audio). Is anyone else experiancing this?

I also experienced this and other problems with the latest T3CH release, so I tried the latest (less known) GasGiver release and it worked like a charm. Even some scripts reported non-working with current releases worked better with that release. I'm using 17.Jun.2007.XBMC.XBOX.MediaCenter.2.0.GasGiver. Maybe this could fix your problems.

[diper]

many thanks...

...

[solidz]

I also experienced this and other problems with the latest T3CH release, so I tried the latest (less known) GasGiver release and it worked like a charm. Even some scripts reported non-working with current releases worked better with that release. I'm using 17.Jun.2007.XBMC.XBOX.MediaCenter.2.0.GasGiver. Maybe this could fix your problems.

I tried 17.Jun.2007.XBMC.XBOX.MediaCenter.2.0.GasGiver and I still experiance the problem. It seems worse because now my youtube audio is skiping.

But i'm going to try to re-install it again and see what happens.

[solidz]

I tried 17.Jun.2007.XBMC.XBOX.MediaCenter.2.0.GasGiver and I still experiance the problem. It seems worse because now my youtube audio is skiping.

But i'm going to try to re-install it again and see what happens.

Edit: I reinstall it and did a fresh install and still experiance the problems.

[Unbehagen]

Edit: I reinstall it and did a fresh install and still experiance the problems.

That's so strange! I installed that version on 4 different Xboxes and never had these kinds of problems. Contact me via PM, maybe I can help you out.

[Unbehagen]

That's so strange! I installed that version on 4 different Xboxes and never had these kinds of problems. Contact me via PM, maybe I can help you out.

Ooops. Wrong information. Turns out the folder my XBMC is in is called GasGiver something, but the actual release it contains is not. Wonder how this could happen. I just uploaded my release for one user that had problems. If it turns out to be working for him I could imagine sharing it with others.

[kain9i6]

First. Thanks for getting this script out!
First thing I thought of when I hear about the tv-link.co.uk was "Ok.. now I gotta see if there is a XBMC script for it."

I installed the (newest? i hope) gas giver XBMC last night (as the script didn't work on my 12/06 release of t3ch) and it did work, but I noticed that some of the shows (Scrubs, in my case) work fine, but then they all started acting strange. (The video was in fast forward, but the audio was normal) Other videos didn't do this. I am perfectly happy with the fact that the script works and I can still watch other stuff (hell I even watched an episode of Duck Tales.. yes I'm old)

Anyways, I saw other people say the audio was off with the video. Anyone else experiencing the 'fast forward' effect on any of their videos?

[SyPhy]

First. Thanks for getting this script out!
First thing I thought of when I hear about the tv-link.co.uk was "Ok.. now I gotta see if there is a XBMC script for it."

I installed the (newest? i hope) gas giver XBMC last night (as the script didn't work on my 12/06 release of t3ch) and it did work, but I noticed that some of the shows (Scrubs, in my case) work fine, but then they all started acting strange. (The video was in fast forward, but the audio was normal) Other videos didn't do this. I am perfectly happy with the fact that the script works and I can still watch other stuff (hell I even watched an episode of Duck Tales.. yes I'm old)

Anyways, I saw other people say the audio was off with the video. Anyone else experiencing the 'fast forward' effect on any of their videos?

i am not having these problems... try the latest regular t3ch unstable release instead of the gasgiver.... i am not sure what you mean by "fast forward" is it literally in fast forward or is it just out of synch with the audio by a second or two? if the latter is the case, you can fix the synching problem by accessing the menu during a video and changing the audio delay settings....

[kain9i6]

i am not having these problems... try the latest regular t3ch unstable release instead of the gasgiver.... i am not sure what you mean by "fast forward" is it literally in fast forward or is it just out of synch with the audio by a second or two? if the latter is the case, you can fix the synching problem by accessing the menu during a video and changing the audio delay settings....

It really is in a fast forward state..

The audio starts, then the video just takes off and if left unchecked will end before about a quarter of the episode is over. Looks like it's in about 4x fast forward state. What is the release date of the latest t3ch. I did like that release.

Also, on a side note.. when streaming 'locks up' (sometimes when I try to watch a video it will sit at the "caching" screen and the xbox will seem to lock up, where as I can hear the clicking of everything and i can press cancel and it will sit and say cancelling, but nothing else happens. is there any way to not have that happen, or maybe a combination of buttons on the remote that I can press to do the reset, rather than having to get up and press the power button? Just curious.

[Xeijin]

About the Movies,

I think alot of them aren't working now because alot of them are being uploaded to Veoh (http://www.veoh.com/) and I think that the script might not be compatible with it (just a theory) if this is the case would it be relatively easy to fix?

[Unbehagen]

About the Movies,

I think alot of them aren't working now because alot of them are being uploaded to Veoh (http://www.veoh.com/) and I think that the script might not be compatible with it (just a theory) if this is the case would it be relatively easy to fix?

For me, the veoh ones are working,...
I watched the last 2 seasons of Curb your Enthusiasm, where most episodes are hosted at veoh.

[Xeijin]

For me, the veoh ones are working,...
I watched the last 2 seasons of Curb your Enthusiasm, where most episodes are hosted at veoh.

Hey,

Could you try Hairspray or Pirates of the Caribbean (At world's end) and see if they work for you? I can't understand why it would be just a movie problem...

[Unbehagen]

Hey,

Could you try Hairspray or Pirates of the Caribbean (At world's end) and see if they work for you? I can't understand why it would be just a movie problem...

Hairspray seems to be really down and Pirates is hosted at BrightCove, which is currently unsupported by the script afaik.

[Xeijin]

Yeah the Curb Your Enthusiasm works perfectly, It's weird that most of the newest films (just tried shrek the third too) seem to fail, shrek works fine for me via PC, as does Hairspray ???

[Spanner]

I'd also like to add my appreciation. I was already amazed at XBMC (being quite new to it), but this opens it up on a whole new level! Here I went and put a 250GB hard drive in, and I'm barely using it now! :D

There was a mention on Page 8 (I think it was) about videos suddenly stopping after a few minutes, which is something I've experienced. Is it because the videos are hosted on Veoh as mentioned in the previous posts? Actually, let me find those posts and put them here for clarification...

For me the script plays a few minutes of the video and then stops. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I have the newest build thats available.

I got that too with veoh streams.

Is this the case, then? It's to do with the Veoh streams? I couldn't find any more mention of this happening. If so, is there anything I can do to try and avoid the problem, or is there a way to tell where the video is hosted before starting to watch? Any advice would be great, but it's not a big deal. (I've got the latest versions of XBMC and the TV Links script, by the way)

Thanks again for an excellent script. It's made me very happy :grin:

[SyPhy]

the veoh streams work fine for me... it seems to be stopping after a couple of minutes randomly (regardless of server)...

[Basje]

Hi there,

I am currently working on a TV-Link channel for my XOT (XBMC Online TV) Framework (http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/). The framework has a (growing) number of channels/sites that can be browsed for video's.

However, for TV-Link I run into the problem that many of the sites use SWF players and I cannot find out the real URL of the media files. What would be a solution for that?

[wvstephens]

Hi there,

I am currently working on a TV-Link channel for my XOT (XBMC Online TV) Framework (http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/). The framework has a (growing) number of channels/sites that can be browsed for video's.

However, for TV-Link I run into the problem that many of the sites use SWF players and I cannot find out the real URL of the media files. What would be a solution for that?

Hey if you don't care I would like to see Manandwife.com added to the xbmc online tv. I hope you manage to get the tv-links working.

[wvstephens]

Hey if you don't care I would like to see Manandwife.com added to the xbmc online tv. I hope you manage to get the tv-links working.


I meant manandwife.tv Sorry

[8BitBrad]

To Basje
To find the real url of the media, I use FireFox with a plugin called Live HTTP Headers.

what you do is you open up firefox, Tools > Live HTTP headers. then you play the media that you want the url of. Live HTTP should then give you a list. You then look for a link that has the media type ex (.flv if your playing a flash video)

Live HTTP headers DL and info link
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/index.html

[some1inbetween]

************************************************** ***

-- TV Links - "Better Than a Remote Control"
Site Update Sun, Jul 29 2007 22:54:01 GMT

You may have noticed some new features!

We have added the following:

* New home page (many updates to follow!)
* RSS feed for show updates in all categoris
* RSS feed for show updates per category
*
* Fixes for many links
* Lots of backend updates

Thanks for reading! And please leave your comments at our forum.

************************************************** ***

hey guys this is a copy/paste directly from the tv-links site and apparently they have just updated the site with new additions and changes. unfortunately, for us who use the current tv-links script, this might affect the script and can render it non-working. i noticed this today when i was watching my shows this morning and then when i got back to it a couple of hours ago, the list and texts wouldn't appear on my xbox. ??? i thought it was just a connection issue but apparently the update did something to it. :shocked: im not sure if it was just me so i hope u guys can check yours and repost.

thank you so much to the one who wrote the script by the way, it changed my watching days on my chair and upgraded me to my much more comfy couch and bigger better hdtv! :D

[SyPhy]

nooooooooooooooooo......... it stopped working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i guess it is back to staring at the wall.......

[pvtschlag]

Sorry for the lack of updates, since the script was working mostly it got put at a lower priority then my other projects. (This is just a hobby of mine)

I have fixed the incompatibility with the new changes to the TV Links site.

http://pvtschlag.com/?page=XBMC%20TV%20Links&nav=6

[Basje]

To Basje
To find the real url of the media, I use FireFox with a plugin called Live HTTP Headers.

what you do is you open up firefox, Tools > Live HTTP headers. then you play the media that you want the url of. Live HTTP should then give you a list. You then look for a link that has the media type ex (.flv if your playing a flash video)

Live HTTP headers DL and info link
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/index.html

Hi there,

I am already using Live HTTP Headers, but the problem is that there does not seem to be a real pattern in the locations of the SWF for the different sites. I will give it another go.

I will also update my script for the site changes. Shouldn't be that difficult.

[SyPhy]

Sorry for the lack of updates, since the script was working mostly it got put at a lower priority then my other projects. (This is just a hobby of mine)

I have fixed the incompatibility with the new changes to the TV Links site.

http://pvtschlag.com/?page=XBMC%20TV%20Links&nav=6


THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!

[pvtschlag]

I have updated the script again. See http://pvtschlag.com/?page=XBMC%20TV%20Links&nav=6.

The GUI should look better in high resolutions and has a few things added to it thanks to 8BitBrad.

I have also fixed the issue with some of the movies causing the xbox to freeze. If you find any that still freeze it let me know.

Also set a version number so it is easier to track when a new version comes out. Current version as of this post is 1.01.

Hope everyone enjoys the script!

[tstraub]

Thanks, just grabbed the new version. B button to go up a directory!!!

[hershey]

got a small problem with the script,

i'm having problem playing stage6 files with the new update (1.1) good example would be for the program Jericho (Season 1 Episode 2).
A few days ago when I had the old version of this script, the file played fine so i dunno whats going on :(

Oh yeh btw the file plays fine through Internet Explorer on my PC...

any help would be great!!

[pvtschlag]

You were correct, stage6 videos were broken by the TV-Links website update. I have just fixed this.

See http://pvtschlag.com/?page=XBMC%20TV%20Links&nav=6. Version is 1.01.1

[hershey]

pvtschlag,

you are my hero!!

thanks.

[Hudson_Hawk04]

its saying the file is not found, hopefully this will be fixed soon. I'm really not too fond of staring at the wall. Love this script to death thanks for all your hard work

[pvtschlag]

Opps, deleted the old version and forgot to upload the new one, should work now.

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Thanks for the quick fix. Absolutely love the script, i still remember the day when i first found out about it...it was a great day. Its working now so I'm happy. Ive been kinda tinkering with the cache settings on the box to make it run smoother. What are the settings you guys would recommend?

[Xeijin]

I came to this thread after finding TV-Links was not working...


pvtschlag

You sir, have made my day.

[Duex]

Hey guys...I was having alof of the same problems...mostly just be watching and it would just drop the video and go back to the menu screen.

So I did this...and you should try this too!

go into the XBMC settings and turn the cache off on EVERYTHING. And it will work perfectly...everything but the movies...the movies are kinda iffy.

But everything else streams great and has no drops what-so-ever!! :grin:

[tangomar]

Duex,

what you found sounds interesting.
Is it possible to customize the network settings (caches) by script?

[Hudson_Hawk04]

I know this has been asked about a million times, but what if any are the optimal cache settings for this script to better minimize stoppages in the playback of streams...I understand that it will be almost if not impossible to completely eliminate them

[Hudson_Hawk04]

i tired setting the cache at zero across the board...it made things worse for me....

[waderb]

pvtschlag
Is gofish functionality now availble in the newest version of the script?

[SyPhy]

i get the best results with the "Internet" cache at max (16384kb)... i leave everything else as default and get less buffering interuptions during streams...

[xaver_cox]

I am using the latest T3CH release but have some issues with this script. Since most of you seem to have got it working I wonder if anyone can help me out here.

The problem is that the script doesn't download the alphabetical list of programs for most sections. At this stage with the latest version of the script only music videos and anime get populated with the list. All other sections (programs, documentaries, movies, etc) give me a short glance at the loading screen and then a blank page.

Has anyone encountered this before and know of a fix? I'd love to run this script in it's full glory.

Cheers and thanks to pvtschlag for your efforts!

Xaver

[shanedoyle]

Ive a strange problem with this script which I think is absolutely excellent - Im on the very latest T3CH Build and the lastest script but I cannot get anything which is on tvlinks.co.uk to work. others like google video and many other clips work fine

If its from tvlink.co.uk i get the demux open box and it looks like it starting to download but then it stops...

Ive tried tinkering with the cache size but it hasnt helped. Any pointers or suggestions

If i can get this to work i can throw sky out of my house!!! :grin:

[Hudson_Hawk04]

i get the best results with the "Internet" cache at max (16384kb)... i leave everything else as default and get less buffering interuptions during streams...

good call on the cache settings, they seem to be woking like a charm

[demogorgan]

firstly excellent script very usufull i to have had the problems with the video dropping out randomly mainly on google video and veoh though, the thing with veoh is because of people linking to there videos and not signing up they made it so there is a preview link and a normal one the normal one you access by being logged in i no as i use veoh on my pc is there a way of adding a log in box or something in the settings that would enable me to put my log in details in ?.

a lot of the other problems freezing not bringing lists up etc when i upgraded xbmc

[Spanner]

...the thing with veoh is because of people linking to there videos and not signing up they made it so there is a preview link and a normal one the normal one you access by being logged in...

Ah. That sounds like it could be the problem then, eh? Veoh is only sending a preview, rather than the full thing. Perhaps there's a way to either log into Veoh from XBMC as Demogorgan says (maybe even automatically when the script starts? Sorry if this is a tall order or utterly impractical/impossible. I know precisely nothing about programming :laugh:), or either pull up info on the video first so we know where it's streaming from before beginning to watch. At least that way we'd know if it's a preview and likely to get cut off.
I wonder if logging into Veoh from the PC and staying logged in will prompt Veoh to send the full video to XBMC? Is that how it works (sorry - bit of a dunce when it comes to all this stuff :) )?
Still, this is one step closer to figuring out the problem, so thanks for mentioning it, Demogorgan.
Does anyone know if there are any other sites that work this way (with the preview thing for non-members)?

[demogorgan]

Ah. That sounds like it could be the problem then, eh? Veoh is only sending a preview, rather than the full thing. Perhaps there's a way to either log into Veoh from XBMC as Demogorgan says (maybe even automatically when the script starts? Sorry if this is a tall order or utterly impractical/impossible. I know precisely nothing about programming :laugh:), or either pull up info on the video first so we know where it's streaming from before beginning to watch. At least that way we'd know if it's a preview and likely to get cut off.
I wonder if logging into Veoh from the PC and staying logged in will prompt Veoh to send the full video to XBMC? Is that how it works (sorry - bit of a dunce when it comes to all this stuff :) )?
Still, this is one step closer to figuring out the problem, so thanks for mentioning it, Demogorgan.
Does anyone know if there are any other sites that work this way (with the preview thing for non-members)?




when you click on the link you can look at where it is caching the video from and it will say preview sometimes can be lucky and it will play the whole thing othertimes not lol as for the logging in part i think it has something to do with the ip address so if there was a browser on xbmc could try it that way see if that works ? i dont no that much about the xbmc am still learning at the moment

[Unbehagen]

Hey,
I just updated my version of pvtschlag's fine script. It is edited to match the Project Mayhem III skin. I also changed a few lines so that some media, Stage6 Divx for example, is playable again - TVLinks seems to have changed their URL scheme. The veoh URLs are still the same though. Some of them keep being preview links and randomly stop during streaming.
You can find it here: http://theendofthelongestline.de/tvlinks.zip

Hagen

[Unbehagen]

Here is an updated version that can also download the selected episode to the XBox hdd. Just press the "INFO" button on your remote. This is especially useful for slow video hosters like toudou.com and others. Have fun!

http://www.theendofthelongestline.de/TVLinksPM3Download.zip

[mby2j]

Here is an updated version that can also download the selected episode to the XBox hdd. Just press the "INFO" button on your remote. This is especially useful for slow video hosters like toudou.com and others. Have fun!

http://www.theendofthelongestline.de/TVLinksPM3Download.zip

Hi, ive just downloaded it and it looks great, 1 question though, how do you record using the xbox pad and not the remote control?

[Unbehagen]

Hi, ive just downloaded it and it looks great, 1 question though, how do you record using the xbox pad and not the remote control?

Edit the default.py and find the line:

if action == ACTION_SHOW_INFO:

and change ACTION_SHOW_INFO to any of:

ACTION_MOVE_LEFT
ACTION_MOVE_RIGHT
ACTION_MOVE_UP
ACTION_MOVE_DOWN
ACTION_PAGE_UP
ACTION_PAGE_DOWN
ACTION_SELECT_ITEM
ACTION_HIGHLIGHT_ITEM
ACTION_PARENT_DIR
ACTION_PREVIOUS_MENU
ACTION_SHOW_INFO
ACTION_PAUSE
ACTION_STOP
ACTION_NEXT_ITEM
ACTION_PREV_ITEM
See if this works for you.

[mby2j]

Edit the default.py and find the line:

if action == ACTION_SHOW_INFO:
and change ACTION_SHOW_INFO to any of:

ACTION_MOVE_LEFT
ACTION_MOVE_RIGHT
ACTION_MOVE_UP
ACTION_MOVE_DOWN
ACTION_PAGE_UP
ACTION_PAGE_DOWN
ACTION_SELECT_ITEM
ACTION_HIGHLIGHT_ITEM
ACTION_PARENT_DIR
ACTION_PREVIOUS_MENU
ACTION_SHOW_INFO
ACTION_PAUSE
ACTION_STOP
ACTION_NEXT_ITEM
ACTION_PREV_ITEMSee if this works for you.

Thanks, I changed it to Action_Select_Item and now when you select the item it asks you if you wish to download it first, click cancel and then it will play. Can confirm that the download fuction works perfectly! Thanks Unbehagen & obviously Pvtschlag for the fantastic script :D

[Unbehagen]

Thanks, I changed it to Action_Select_Item and now when you select the item it asks you if you wish to download it first, click cancel and then it will play. Can confirm that the download fuction works perfectly! Thanks Unbehagen & obviously Pvtschlag for the fantastic script :D
I think I found a better solution:

Within the first lines with all the ACTION_... constants definitions, add the following:
ACTION_CONTEXT_MENU = 117
and replace
if action == ACTION_SHOW_INFO:
with if ((action == ACTION_SHOW_INFO) or (action == ACTION_CONTEXT_MENU)):
After this, you can press the A button to stream and the white button to download media (on the pad). If you use the remote, the Enter button plays media and the info button downloads it.

[SyPhy]

I think I found a better solution:

Within the first lines with all the ACTION_... constants definitions, add the following:
ACTION_CONTEXT_MENU = 117
and replace
if action == ACTION_SHOW_INFO:
with if ((action == ACTION_SHOW_INFO) or (action == ACTION_CONTEXT_MENU)):
After this, you can press the A button to stream and the white button to download media (on the pad). If you use the remote, the Enter button plays media and the info button downloads it.

why not upload an updated version of the script with this slight mod? no big deal to edit it, just makes it easier for everyone... AND THANKS FOR THE DOWNLOAD OPTION! great work

[Unbehagen]

why not upload an updated version of the script with this slight mod? no big deal to edit it, just makes it easier for everyone...
here you go!
http://theendofthelongestline.de/TVLinksPM3DownloadRemotePad.zip

[Unbehagen]

BTW: I experienced that if you download FLV files and later play them using the file manager or video browser, XBMC automatically chooses the DVDPlayer core, not the MPlayer one. This seems to be a good choice, because fast forwarding and other stuff works better with this core in the version of XBMC I'm using. Could anyone try this? I would make the other player core the default in the script then.
To the scripters: I would like to create a context menu to offer more complex operations and settings for videos. I'm thinking of a context menu like for example the one that shows if you press info/white button on a game in the programs browser. I found this in other scripts like the youtube one, but it all seemed to involve this guibuilder xml stuff, which i'd like to stay away from for now. Anyone got an idea on how to solve this task?

[Nuka1195]

GUIBuilder was useful in it's time. You should really use WindowXML.

Apple Movie Trailers is a good example :) with context menu.

If you want to see how easy using windowXML, grab the changelog script from SVN. It's a very simple script. As this script get's more popular it would be a good choice to allow skinners to support it. Better to start now, before you add too much more to the script.

http://xbmc-scripting.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/XBMC%20Changelog

Edit: AMT also has an example of using the different cores (DVDPlayer and MPlayer) based on the trailer type.

[Unbehagen]

AMT also has an example of using the different cores (DVDPlayer and MPlayer) based on the trailer type.
It's not that hard to add differenct cores based on the file type. What I'm interested in is what player core works best for you with the media available at TVLinks, especially FLVs.

[stanley87]

Hey pvtschlag and Unbehagen,

I think you two need to team up on these
I am also interested in helping out if you guys wouldn't mind.
I am interested for this to follow AMT's footsteps and move over
to a database and enable Search and also so it can store the information
so everytime the script is loaded, it won't have to fetch all the data.
I also would like to add in a Favourites option,
and move it over to winxml and make it look SLEXY!

Also, we would need to move over to a SVN, i nominate:
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-scripting/

Then we can each keep uptodate with each other :-D
Im no good at URL parsing etc, but anything else i can usually do.

Also, we then could add in a self updating feature like Xbmc lyrics and XinBox.

What ya's think?

Cheers,
Stanley87

[Unbehagen]

Hey pvtschlag and Unbehagen,
I think you two need to team up on these

II tried to contact pvtschlag a couple of times via email, but didn't get any response.

I am also interested in helping out if you guys wouldn't mind.

That's great, I'd be glad to have as many people as possible working on this!

I am interested for this to follow AMT's footsteps and move over
to a database and enable Search and also so it can store the information
so everytime the script is loaded, it won't have to fetch all the data.
I also would like to add in a Favourites option,
and move it over to winxml and make it look SLEXY!

I'm up for another option. I'm not very satisfied with the look and feel of media streaming scripts in XBMC. I'm also not so much into writing XML with an editor myself. Because of that laziness, I contacted the devs to have those scripts integrated as some kind of plugin into the videos screen of XBMC, look here for more information on that: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27760. Starting something like what you proposed would only be my second option.


Also, we would need to move over to a SVN, i nominate:
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-scripting/

Then we can each keep uptodate with each other :-D
Im no good at URL parsing etc, but anything else i can usually do.

SVN access would be great, but only if we can reach pvtschlag. Otherwise I would start recoding the script to not have license issues. I just don't yet know how pvtschlag feels about my releases.

Also, we then could add in a self updating feature like Xbmc lyrics and

Yes, maxbe later...

Cheers, Hagen

[pvtschlag]

Hey pvtschlag and Unbehagen,

I think you two need to team up on these
I am also interested in helping out if you guys wouldn't mind.
I am interested for this to follow AMT's footsteps and move over
to a database and enable Search and also so it can store the information
so everytime the script is loaded, it won't have to fetch all the data.
I also would like to add in a Favourites option,
and move it over to winxml and make it look SLEXY!

Also, we would need to move over to a SVN, i nominate:
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-scripting/

Then we can each keep uptodate with each other :-D
Im no good at URL parsing etc, but anything else i can usually do.

Also, we then could add in a self updating feature like Xbmc lyrics and XinBox.

What ya's think?

Cheers,
Stanley87

Sounds like a great idea to me. :grin:

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Been following this with some interest...it will be fun to see where you guys take this. Best of luck to you

[Unbehagen]

Sounds like a great idea to me. :grin:
So, you want to rejoin code bases? How will we start? Maybe we should exchange IM names first. You'll get a private message soon.
Did you read the thead I linked to in my posting?

[ShortySco]

Looks like this is turning into something quite special.

Thanks for all the work so far, just think how many thousands of hours of entertainment you've provided to people!

Shorty

[stanley87]

I will set up the SVN tonight and pm you both with logins etc.
If you dont both have it already, get Tortoise SVN.

Actaully, too add you both the google code SVN (xbmc-scripting)

I will need your gmail usernames. Please PM these to me.

I think we should start from going off Unbehagen's latest release.

Agree?

[ace1spades]

i've been a long time xbmc user and an even longer follower of tv links and the discovery that they've been combined has made my day.

i've been following the thread all day and made an account just to say good job. effing good job :D

[TheBoxMan]

argh 17 + pages of replies!

My dyslexia can't coap :-o

A TV-Links script would be AWESOME.

Does one exist? can someone PM me a link or post one here?

Appologies for not weathering the ten book volume to find out the final solution but at my reading speed I'd probably have to skip a few meals to do so ;)
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Great work though guys Really Great!

I love this community.

[Unbehagen]

argh 17 + pages of replies!

My dyslexia can't coap :-o

A TV-Links script would be AWESOME.

Does one exist? can someone PM me a link or post one here?

Appologies for not weathering the ten book volume to find out the final solution but at my reading speed I'd probably have to skip a few meals to do so ;)
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Great work though guys Really Great!

I love this community.
No, none existst yet, because people refuse to read the python docs. Sorry.

[Basje]

argh 17 + pages of replies!

My dyslexia can't coap :-o

A TV-Links script would be AWESOME.

Does one exist? can someone PM me a link or post one here?

Appologies for not weathering the ten book volume to find out the final solution but at my reading speed I'd probably have to skip a few meals to do so ;)
-
Great work though guys Really Great!

I love this community.

I have TV-Links in my XOT (XBMC Online TV) Script. See here: http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/

[TheBoxMan]

Thanks for xot link.

Is it in english? It looks like the files are dutch? Or am I reading too much into the 'nl' thing?

I'll upload it onto my xbox tonight when I get home in either case and find out.

[pvtschlag]

http://pvtschlag.com/?page=XBMC%20TV%20Links&nav=6

[Hudson_Hawk04]

just updated the script....love it so far, had to upgrade to the newest build of xbmc to get the tv links channel workin...it looks great keep up the great work guys

[Basje]

Thanks for xot link.

Is it in english? It looks like the files are dutch? Or am I reading too much into the 'nl' thing?

I'll upload it onto my xbox tonight when I get home in either case and find out.

Well, most channels are dutch. However, you could just delete the dutch ones and use it for Joox.net and tvlinks. Just delete the other channels in the \channels\ folder. You could also add a . in front of the folder names, that way they will be ignored.

[ace1spades]

when streaming i dont seem to be able to rewind/fastforward anymore.
i just updated to the latest t3ch build rev9834.

i dont know if this has to do with the build or the script any help?

[nickspoon]

I'm using the TVLinks script from earlier in the thread (not the XOT one) and any link that uses Dailymotion doesn't work. Anyone know why or have a fixed script?

[Unbehagen]

I'm using the TVLinks script from earlier in the thread (not the XOT one) and any link that uses Dailymotion doesn't work. Anyone know why or have a fixed script?

Did you check if the link works on the PC? Dailymotion now is famous for deleting uploaded TV series very fast. If so, could you supply an example link? Thanks.

[Unbehagen]

when streaming i dont seem to be able to rewind/fastforward anymore.
i just updated to the latest t3ch build rev9834.

i dont know if this has to do with the build or the script any help?

I don't see any possibility how this could have to do with the script.

[nickspoon]

Did you check if the link works on the PC? Dailymotion now is famous for deleting uploaded TV series very fast. If so, could you supply an example link? Thanks.

After a long time looking for something that would work on the PC, I did eventually discover one that hadn't been deleted. I've just checked, and it works fine. I guess I didn't really expect such a huge number of videos to be unavailable. Sorry about that :)

[SyPhy]

Did you check if the link works on the PC? Dailymotion now is famous for deleting uploaded TV series very fast. If so, could you supply an example link? Thanks.


I have found multiple things that will work on the pc but not on the script. here is an example: http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/5/3043 .... click on "say i yi yi"... works on the pc but not on the script... it is hosted on dailymotion...

[ntfx]

here you go!
http://theendofthelongestline.de/TVLinksPM3DownloadRemotePad.zip

the link is down??

[Unbehagen]

the link is down??
It works for me...

[ntfx]

it was down for a while last night, works again now.

[Unbehagen]

it was down for a while last night, works again now.
Cheap german hosting anyone? :)

[Hudson_Hawk04]

just curious as to what you guys have planned for this script now that you've teamed up been following this thread like a hawk, love what you've done so far.

[slicknixon420]

I dont know if anyone else has experienced this, but many of the videos from youtube or dailymotion links will have weird audio problems like snaps and warped sounds. I don't know if this is from the .flv file itself or not, but when i play the same links from the youtube script, i don't hear the audio freak-outs. All the divx links have good audio though so i dunno.

[stanley87]

Well, either developer never pm'd me so i might leave it to them to fight it out :-D

[ShortySco]

I dont know if anyone else has experienced this, but many of the videos from youtube or dailymotion links will have weird audio problems like snaps and warped sounds. I don't know if this is from the .flv file itself or not, but when i play the same links from the youtube script, i don't hear the audio freak-outs. All the divx links have good audio though so i dunno.

This could be related to a bug that is fixed now, it was present in the most recent t3ch, and can be fixed by updating the mplayer.dll file.

Could be something else though.

Shorty

[ntfx]

i downloaded ubehegans latest version of this script, but also saw a new version of tv links from 2 days ago. Which is latest? ive gone and upgraded but i can change back if its not right.

[ntfx]

i downloaded ubehegans latest version of this script, but also saw a new version of tv links from 2 days ago. Which is latest? ive gone and upgraded but i can change back if its not right.

[wvstephens]

WOW. I can't believe the progress of this script since I first requested it. I just want to thank the developers it has prompted me to buy 3 more xbox's now every tv in my house has one. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

[Ibb1982]

I've always had trouble with playing stage6, tried changing cache, got the latest tech build of XMBC and latest TV Links script. I looked around the threads, but can't seem to find a fix.

Amazing script, but just not able to play stage 6. Just to make sure the links weren't dead I checked on my pc, the links were working fine there.

Hope someone can help, cheers

[dafunks]

I've always had trouble with playing stage6, tried changing cache, got the latest tech build of XMBC and latest TV Links script. I looked around the threads, but can't seem to find a fix.

Amazing script, but just not able to play stage 6. Just to make sure the links weren't dead I checked on my pc, the links were working fine there.

Hope someone can help, cheers

It is nopt XBMC or the scripts but prob your internet connection. Maybe it is too slow to the big files ( most are about 350MB in size) but if it is not that maybe your ISP limits downloads from the site (If this can be done)

I have no problems but i know my ISP limits me on torrents and p2p... they just do not know about stage6.

That is all i can think off. I have no problems with my cache and leave it as default or someties take it higher but not much.

[TheBoxMan]

I hit two problems using the tv-links script.

(I'm about to give the dutch one a try too and will report back asap ;) )

The first problem I hit with the tv-links script was it wouldn't start up.

I took a look at the python script log thingy on the xbox and traced the error to a problem with two instances of 'focuscolor=' or something like that - presumably designed to change the font colour when certain options were selected.

I simply deleted these as it didn't seem to recognise the variable (anyone any idea what's going on? why that's the case?)

Anyway after those two changes it loads up ok. Judging what I'm looking at is a bit difficult because I've taken out the font colour changing presumably. Script looks great. It downloads the directories and everything perfectly.

Now to stream.

I navigate to something I'm sure works because I watched it earlier on in the day.

I selected it.

Up comes the 'connecting' box....

sit awaiting something happening....and nothing does.

I've had this problem with a few streaming scripts these days.

Anyone got any clue what could be going wrong on both counts?

[Unbehagen]

I took a look at the python script log thingy on the xbox and traced the error to a problem with two instances of 'focuscolor=' or something like that - presumably designed to change the font colour when certain options were selected.

You have an old XBMC release?

I navigate to something I'm sure works because I watched it earlier on in the day.
[QUOTE]
Please supply the URLs.

[TheBoxMan]

Could be. I thought my build was from February/March time.

Turns out it's XBMC Build 2.0.1 (Compiled Nov 12 2006) with Mplayer from Sept 24th 2006.

Suppose I ought to update.


How painful is upgrading?...What settings will I lose?


As for links I tried

Hustle Season 4 Episode 2 (which is a divx one).

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/2234

and a few others.

I know the link works as it plays fine on my laptop.

I know it's unlikely to be the connection for that reason and because I have a 20 Mbps connection ;)


Strangely I've been having problems with quite a bit of streaming lately. The joox script hasn't been working. google videos hasn't been working too good either. And now tv links.....

*scratches his head*

[Unbehagen]

Suppose I ought to update.

yes, it is.

How painful is upgrading?...What settings will I lose?

Not at all if you do it right. Read the manual and ask if you have problems.



Hustle Season 4 Episode 2 (which is a divx one).
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/2234

Works perfectly here.

[Citrus]

If I use the http://192.168.1.6/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=PlayFile&parameter=http://tv-links.co.uk/video/9/6242/9726/60777/85663/ephemeral/d508f1b5fd56d7cb8145b06b2805ad2e4ea1298b1feffe3f16 d6d3d12ee5682b7089fbd78b770cece7fcc77dee4614fc01d3 c9af9b774d7be27c5f9c03bbc5ad21d8697e4e1c2537/go.divx
to stream a video from TV-Links it doesn't work. How did you get it to work in the script?

[TheBoxMan]

Not at all if you do it right. Read the manual and ask if you have problems.


Ok...I'm in the process of upgrading...

*twiddles thumbs nervously*

I'm upgrading to XBMC-SVN_2007-08-12_rev9920-T3CH

;)

Lets just hope the script works after it because it looks absolutely breathtakingly awesome (If it does I'm buying two new Xboxs in the next couple of days so that I can have one for every TV set in the house).

In case anyone is in the same situation upgrading is as simple as: backing up the 'UserData' file then overwriting the old version of XBMC with the new and finally overwriting the UserData file in the new version with your original.....I think. If not we'll find out soon ;)

[TheBoxMan]

Hey guys,

Looks like my upgrade went well. Although my favourate skin MC360 isn't showing any text (...font settings wrong somehow? or do I need to tweak something?)

I've switched to the original version of the script (rather than the one I modified).

It's still not streaming although the behavior has changed a bit. Now what happens is I'm getting a quick progression of dialogue boxes, where (I think) it finds the given link and attempts to connect.

No caching appears to occur and not a lot happens after that. I'm testing the same links with my laptop and they're wroking fine....thoughts on what's up?

Oh also tested the dutch script it also looks very polished (but won't exit and isn't succeeding in streaming either)

Thanks for all your help guys ;)

[Unbehagen]

Are you using a proxy?

[TheBoxMan]

Thought I was.....unchecked the 'enable http proxy' setting and suddenly it starts working! (well except the fonts on MC 360 :( )
Thanks folks you guys are awesome!

[xaver_cox]

Alright guys...I still have the same problem as mentioned here previously: Most pages just stay blank.

My question to the people that got the script working:

What XBMC build are YOU using???


Thanks heaps!

[ShortySco]

Works like a dream here.... on the latest T3ch SVN build.... and about the previous five worked also.

Shorty

[Unbehagen]

I still have the same problem as mentioned here previously: Most pages just stay blank.

I tried most of the current builds, like GasGiver, T3CH, self-compiled, etc. All of them worked. Maybe you have a slow/laggy connection to Tv-links? Or you don't have the latest TVLinks version? Try to install it via XBMCScripts.com installer. You should find version 1.01u(nbehagen) of the script there.
Do you use a proxy server? Users using proxy servers reported problems. URLLib/Python/TVLinks script just won't use your proxy. Maybe you have some very strange kind of firewall that filters sites via keywords? Please tell us if you checked all of those points. If none of that works, please post the python script log (available if you press white button in the scripts browser), take a screenshot and upload it somewhere and post the link here. If there are multiple pages, please take a screenshot for every page.
If you have a bit of experience with python, you can add your own print statements in getEps and similar methods to see where the problem is.

[Karakh]

Does anyone else get really squeeky audio on most vids with this? Sounds kinda like a highly compressed mp3, and when viewed in firefox it sounds fine.
(using latest TECH build).

[ShortySco]

Does anyone else get really squeeky audio on most vids with this? Sounds kinda like a highly compressed mp3, and when viewed in firefox it sounds fine.
(using latest TECH build).

Some files are of low quality and have bad sound, others are good quality...

Also, the t3CH build from a week or two ago had a bug that cause cracks and pops in some avi audio files.... if you didn't already update to the latest.

Shorty

[ShortySco]

Sorry, didn't notice you had already updated..... I assume it's the 07-08-12 build you are using then?

Shorty

[Karakh]

Yup rev9920, dosen't do it for avi files on HDD or LAN, just tvlinks.
(using TVLinksPM3 btw).

[Karakh]

Never mind. Just did a clean install of XBMC, working beautifully now. And I can play MKVs again! :D
Thanks for your help, was probably some junk left over from the last upgrade.

[Ibb1982]

Hey guys, anybody still have problems watching some links.

I have trouble with links hosted by t6.com, Stage6 and www2.tv-links.co.uk.


I have the latest XBMC by Tech installed, along with ltest TV links script. All installed from fresh.

Hope you can help.

Cheers

[dafunks]

ANy updates on this script?

I have a problem with some videos just cutting out after 20mins+

I also downloaded one episode of Farscape (Season one DNA episode) and it only downloads 25mb

I checked and it is all on there... It looks liek the links are sort of preview links... can this be fixed?

I am using the new version of tv-links and new version of xbmc

[hassan]

I have problems with episodes suddenly cutting off at random parts. I have to load it again, and patiently try to forward to the part that it cut off and continue from there. I reckon it happens about 80% of the time.

[alanchiz]

I have problems with episodes suddenly cutting off at random parts. I have to load it again, and patiently try to forward to the part that it cut off and continue from there. I reckon it happens about 80% of the time.

I think a lot of us are getting this problem.
Only seems to be certain sites though, like Veoh and myspace. Someone mentioned earlier that unless you are logged into Veoh, you can only watch the previews, maybe some of the other sites are the same...?
It is quite annoying, and apart from a few links not playing, is the only thing keeping this from perfection.

Whoever is working on this these days, best of luck.

[dafunks]

I have problems with episodes suddenly cutting off at random parts. I have to load it again, and patiently try to forward to the part that it cut off and continue from there. I reckon it happens about 80% of the time.

Yes this is what I am getting. I checked the links and it has a /preview/ link in it so this is why it is no tworking.

Is there a way to fix this?

[hassan]

the veoh preview thing is only for some videos that are 40mins or more, they require you to download it and they only stream teh first 5 minutes of the video on the site

[dafunks]

the veoh preview thing is only for some videos that are 40mins or more, they require you to download it and they only stream teh first 5 minutes of the video on the site

I have tried downloading the videos using the TV-Links (Other version) but I can only download 25MB of the show.

Is there a way to logn to the site using the script so we can get the full show.

It is frscape I am tryng to watch... The DNA pisode season on.

[dafunks]

I have done some digging around an seen that it is not the videos but the Veoh website. Any videos over 40mins only play the first 5mins. The only way around it is to use the veoh downloader but that only works on Windows.

So is there a way to make the site think XBMC with TV-Links is the downloader?

Without this it will never happen.... It sucks as I do not own a Windows computer all mine are Linux (DSL-N and Ub)

Not sure if it can be done sadly but I guess you guys are the ones to ask.

[hassan]

that isn't the main reason it stops though, I mean, it does the same thing on other videos hosted on tudou as well.

When i said you have to download the video, I meant download it using the veoh downloader on windows.

[voodoo721]

what are the odds of getting these videos to work?

http://www.justepourrire.com/gags

[Unbehagen]

People interested in TVLinks and Joox should have a look at the new python plugin folder feature in the latest T3CH svn. With this, you can browse TVLinks, Joox and Apple Movie Trailers as if they were on your HDD, from the normal video browser, not the scripts GUI. Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-MK3FnKOk
After showing XBMC's XORed trainer engine feature, it shows the TVLinks and AMT plugins.
Get the plugins from this thread:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28031

[newuser]

Thanks for the info.

[hassan]

I read that plugins post, but I still have no idea what its for, can someone explain in easy to understand terms

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Ive got the joox plugin to work, however I cant seem to get the TV Links plugin to work...all thats in the file that i downloaded is the default.py file. I put the joox plugin in the video plugin folder on both the Q and E drive (where I have XBMC) its saying that its giving me the error that it cannot retrive the directory info due to network not being connected. Am I doing something wrong or is the tv links plugin ive grabbed corrupted in some way....If I havent supplied you all with enough info just let me know I will do my best to provide more. Thanks in advance

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Ive got the joox plugin to work, however I cant seem to get the TV Links plugin to work...all thats in the file that i downloaded is the default.py file. I put the joox plugin in the video plugin folder on both the Q and E drive (where I have XBMC) its saying that its giving me the error that it cannot retrive the directory info due to network not being connected. Am I doing something wrong or is the tv links plugin ive grabbed corrupted in some way....If I havent supplied you all with enough info just let me know I will do my best to provide more. Thanks in advance

Never Mind Guys found the solution to the problem I was having, it was due to me not paying attention to what I was doing.

[Unbehagen]

I read that plugins post, but I still have no idea what its for, can someone explain in easy to understand terms
Did you watch the youtube video posted above? The plugin provides the same possibilties as the TVLinks script, but it is accessible from the VIDEO screen, not the SCRIPTS screen. You can browse it like a hard disk, lastFM or Shoutcast.
With a video on hdd or samba share, you would browse to the share, the folder and select the video you want to play. With the plugin you would select TVLinks, TV Shows, Arrested Development, Season 1, Episode 1 and it plays the video. Clear enough or is there still a part of this that you don't understand?

[hassan]

I didn't get to watch the youtube video, was on linksboks reading post. seems like a cool feature

[Gokenin]

A little help would be greatly appreciated :)
So far I have installed TV-Links via ftp as well as using the built in installer (currently using the newest t3ch build for XBMC)
Finally managed to get the .py to load up for TV-Links but I am now getting these errors

Error
Error creating buttons
'FocusedColor' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

and

Error
Error initializing script
reason: list index out of range

Then the gui's bg will load but has no menus or images, the small TV-Links logo in the upper left corner and the word "test" next to that. Menu will of course take me back to the main menu with no further errors.
I have checked the wiki and have found nothing on this issue and I haven't found anything in the forum search on a list of tvlink.py errors and corrections (if there is such a beast)


additional info on the Xbox itself:
I am currently using the Unleash-X dashboard with a soft modded unit. version 0.39.022a build 572

Any help on this is greatly appreciated and an all around howdy to everyone here :)

[Gokenin]

Forgot to mention that I am using XBMC as the dash itself and only use the Unleash-X dash if I need more detailed system info.

[Nuka1195]

change all FocusedColor -> focusedColor

[Gokenin]

change all FocusedColor -> focusedColor

Ahhh, where would I do that? I have no python experience and am brand new to XBMC and such. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you for the info on what to change as well :)

[Unbehagen]

Ahhh, where would I do that? I have no python experience and am brand new to XBMC and such. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you for the info on what to change as well :)
Grab any editor, such as notepad.exe on windows, open default.py, do a search and replace (Ctrl-H) and let it replace all occurances of FocusedColor to focusedColor. Save the document, re-upload it.

[Gokenin]

Unbehagen,
I reinstalled the script fresh and did a search in the py file, there is only one instance of 'focusedColor' and none others, I do apologize for my initial post, I see that I had used a F instead of the f. However, my issue is still happening even with a fresh install with a verified instance of the 'focusedColor" error.
I have pasted the block of code that it is within below. I do greatly appreciate the help with this problem :)

def makeButtons(self):
try:
self.btnCategories = []
for i in range(len(self.Cats)):
btn = xbmcgui.ControlButton(25, (130)+27*i, (247)-((100))+20, 27, self.Cats[i],textXOffset=30, focusTexture=IMAGE_DIR + self.Cats[i]+'NF'+'.png', noFocusTexture=IMAGE_DIR + self.Cats[i]+'NF'+'.png', textColor='0xFFAAAAAA',focusedColor='0xFFFFFFFF')
self.addControl(btn)
self.btnCategories.append(btn)

for i in range(len(self.Cats)):
self.btnCategories[i].controlUp(self.btnCategories[i-1])
self.btnCategories[i].controlDown(self.btnCategories[(i+1) % len(self.Cats)])
self.btnCategories[i].controlRight(self.ctrlList)
except Exception, e:
dialog = xbmcgui.Dialog()
dialog.ok("Error", "Error creating buttons.\n\nReason:\n"+str(e))

[Hudson_Hawk04]

I dont know if this is the right place to ask this but im gonna try....would it be possible for someone to make wide icons to use for the joox and tvlinks sources? thanks

[Unbehagen]

I dont know if this is the right place to ask this but im gonna try....would it be possible for someone to make wide icons to use for the joox and tvlinks sources? thanks

As far as I know, Joox and TVLinks don't provide individual icons for shows and movies themselves. It might be possible to achieve this with the plugins instead of the scripts. Because you browse TVLinks as if it was a folder, you can do all the things with it that would be possible with a folder, such as changing the folder icon and even the scrapers worked for me last time I tried.

[Unbehagen]

Unbehagen,
I reinstalled the script fresh and did a search in the py file, there is only one instance of 'focusedColor' and none others, I do apologize for my initial post, I see that I had used a F instead of the f. However, my issue is still happening even with a fresh install with a verified instance of the 'focusedColor" error.

You can try removing the whole focusedColor keyword:

btn = xbmcgui.ControlButton(25, (130)+27*i, (247)-((100))+20, 27, self.Cats[i],textXOffset=30, textColor='0xFFAAAAAA',focusedColor='0xFFFFFFFF')

Maybe this works for you? Strange though that it works for thousands of users and on your box it just doesn't know about that keyword. Did you really make sure you have the latest T3CH SVN compile? We're not talking about the STABLE release here...

[Spanner]

Hi. Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but I guess it's kinda related. Anyway, here's my question about using TV Links and the other stuff as plugins, rather than scripts (which is working great for me, and looks great being integrated into the XBMC system more closely).

Will the plugins/listings still update themselves, since there's no longer an option to do this manually using the white button (refreshing the genre on Apple Movie Trailers, for instance)?

Great work, by the way. It's really appreciated.

[Unbehagen]

Will the plugins/listings still update themselves, since there's no longer an option to do this manually using the white button (refreshing the genre on Apple Movie Trailers, for instance)?
The programmer can decide this. For AMT, it makes more sense to put the update functionality into the script rather than the plugin, because it would take too long to do this every time the user accesses a folder or the base folder. For TVLinks and Joox: Yes, every list you see is generated on the fly from the web pages, which should be no problem for users having an internet connection fast enough to stream videos.

[Gokenin]

Maybe this works for you? Strange though that it works for thousands of users and on your box it just doesn't know about that keyword. Did you really make sure you have the latest T3CH SVN compile? We're not talking about the STABLE release here...

Hrm i think it might be due to the fact that I am using XBMC CVS 2006-07-16-T3CH, Ill take a guess and that chances are good that is the compatibility issue I am having.
I have not been able to figure out where to dl the new rls of it as I found this offa torrent tracker. (ill check there again anyways)

[Unbehagen]

Hrm i think it might be due to the fact that I am using XBMC CVS 2006-07-16-T3CH, Ill take a guess and that chances are good that is the compatibility issue I am having.
I have not been able to figure out where to dl the new rls of it as I found this offa torrent tracker. (ill check there again anyways)

Just ask google for some T3CH XBMC. I'm sure you'll find it on the first page.

[Nuka1195]

Feature that might be nice for TV Links plugin. Parse the year out of the title and add a sort by SORT_METHOD_VIDEO_YEAR.

[Unbehagen]

Feature that might be nice for TV Links plugin. Parse the year out of the title and add a sort by SORT_METHOD_VIDEO_YEAR.
Thanks for suggestion, I'll have a look at that.

[Gokenin]

Just ask google for some T3CH XBMC. I'm sure you'll find it on the first page.

Yeah I've been trying to get the file off of the yi.se site with no luck. Heh for all I know the new federal domestic spying program is interfering with my downloads now :D /jk
Well thanks for the info, I am going to remove that line of syntax from the default.py and see if that works till I am able to find the newer release version.
Thanks for the help, I am sure we will talk again here :)

[Gokenin]

Thanks for the help Unbehagen.
I have updated to the newest released build and tvlinks works for me.

[kpatm]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hudson_Hawk04 View Post
Ive got the joox plugin to work, however I cant seem to get the TV Links plugin to work...all thats in the file that i downloaded is the default.py file. I put the joox plugin in the video plugin folder on both the Q and E drive (where I have XBMC) its saying that its giving me the error that it cannot retrive the directory info due to network not being connected. Am I doing something wrong or is the tv links plugin ive grabbed corrupted in some way....If I havent supplied you all with enough info just let me know I will do my best to provide more. Thanks in advance
Never Mind Guys found the solution to the problem I was having, it was due to me not paying attention to what I was doing.

Can you tell me exactly how you sorted this mate.Im having the same problem with the TV links plugin,but unlike you I dont have the brain power to sort it myself.Cheers

[Hudson_Hawk04]

Did tv links change their layout? I'm getting a playlist could not be opened error with the reason being (errno socket errror) (10060,'operation timed out') then i get an error in control reason:iteration over non-sequence. I am using the t3ch build 27-aug-2007. Is it possible that I need to update my build?

[kpatm]

I get the same error.This is doing my nut right in.