[REQUEST] iDesiTV.com (Internet Desi TV) plugin or script

[desiking911]

Sup all I am trying to help out a friend who building owner won’t let him put a dish up
I was wondering if any one has a script that I can use to pick up Stream from this site http://www.idesitv.com/index.php please help if you can thank you.:laugh:

[the_optimist]

I am very new to these things, but here is something I tried
that worked in a small way. I went to idesitv.com, played one
of the channels, and got the stream info from some commercial
software I have:

http://wm50.bestmediahost.com/idesitv.com-starone-sdksdbjshb3s3?WMContentBitrate=400000

I pasted this into a file I called "starone.strm"
This playes perfectly in xbmc.
The trouble is, I don't know how to get the stream info
from the browser without using this commercial stream capture
app. It must be simple, maybe someone else will help us.
And, this is only channel-by-channel.

There is also a script development utility which might help:
http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/wiki/WhatIsXOT

[rafiek]

@desiking911 www.idesitv.com has changed their website, did you succeed to get this to work with XBMC ?
the stream is now hided in their php code for example http://www.idesitv.com/sony.php

Thanks,

Rafiek

[the_optimist]

@desiking911 www.idesitv.com has changed their website, did you succeed to get this to work with XBMC ?
the stream is now hided in their php code for example http://www.idesitv.com/sony.php

Thanks,

Rafiek
Sorry, Rafiek, I did not look at this issue since my last post.
The only thing I can offer you right now is a set of TV streams
I found many months ago. I don't know if it will be useful to you,
but I have had a lot of fun with it. Here it is:
http://rapidshare.com/files/80962650/TV.tar.gz.html

It would be easy to add the StarOne .strm file as described in my
last post, if it is still working.

[EvilDude]

In case anyone is interested,
http://www.sharebigfile.com/en/file/3406/iDesitv-rar.html

I have made a video plugin. This means unzip to xbmc\plugins\video and then add it as a source.

It was a great way to understand how plugins work and how surprisingly easy it is!

[EvilDude]

(I think the forums broke... nfi how my post became #1 in the thread :S ) but yes, check the first post for details on the script.

[the_optimist]

Fantastic. I'll have a look ASAP.

[Gamester17]

In case anyone is interested,
http://www.sharebigfile.com/en/file/3406/iDesitv-rar.html

I have made a video plugin. This means unzip to xbmc\plugins\video and then add it as a source.

It was a great way to understand how plugins work and how surprisingly easy it is!Great! Why not now join the XBMC-Addons project on Google Code?, or at least submit your plugin to them
http://xbmc-addons.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29911

:grin:

[the_optimist]

So far I am getting only 'no connection to network server.'
I just added it as a video plugin in the standard way.
Haven't had any time to investigate further ...
Anyone else having any better luck?

[rafiek]

Can someone confirm if the file of EvilDude works?
It would be great to see it working, i can not test it right now, because me internet is down (cancelled), hope to be on the net begin feb.

www.idesitv.com is using a .php address and not an IP-adress anymore.

Sony: http://www.idesitv.com/sony.php
Sony Max: http://www.idesitv.com/setmax.php

Rafiek

[EvilDude]

The site itself is not working for half the channels, but for the other channels (B4U movies / music for example) show up fine in XBMC and play fine too.

Is there any better sites work more consistently?

[a7n9]

I am looking for a solution on this too. You can easily find out the streams using firefox extensions (I use download embedded) to find the streams from bhejfry.net (they mirror stuff from iDesiTv). I have already made a list of some of the streams. Can anyone post an easier solution, please?

[the_optimist]

for the tip about download embedded. I used it to get the following stream url
from bhejafry.net:
http://208.53.158.32/idesitv.com-starone-sdjskjdnk33sdw?WMContentBitrate=400000

I put this url in VideoLAN's VLC and it played perfectly.
This means that xbmc will play the stream if it is placed
in a file with the suffix .strm. It would be easy to make
such a file for each of the approx ten channels.

Unfortunately, it may turn out that the urls change from time to time.
Parsing the web page would likely be possible in python, but I haven't yet
learned python programming. Yet. Can't be that hard ...

[vinny75]

For what is worth, all I had to do was click VIEW SOURCE once the php link is opened in a browser. I was then able to get the URL of the actual stream within the source code. Placed is as a strm file as posted in this thread..Worked just fine...

Here is a url I saw within the source code for starplus

http://208.53.158.32/idesitv.com-starplus-sdkjsdkjskn3d?WMContentBitrate=400000

[golfbandit]

http://rapidshare.com/files/85758962/iDesiTV.rar.html I made a bunch of m3u files, just upload them into your videos folder, and open them like a regular video file. Some of the channels don't work because, the source is dead probably. Its easy to make these kind of files, all you do is open the file in notepad and change the source links.

[rafiek]

I am very new to these things, but here is something I tried
that worked in a small way. I went to idesitv.com, played one
of the channels, and got the stream info from some commercial
software I have:

http://wm50.bestmediahost.com/idesitv.com-starone-sdksdbjshb3s3?WMContentBitrate=400000

I pasted this into a file I called "starone.strm"
This playes perfectly in xbmc.
The trouble is, I don't know how to get the stream info
from the browser without using this commercial stream capture
app. It must be simple, maybe someone else will help us.
And, this is only channel-by-channel.

There is also a script development utility which might help:
http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/wiki/WhatIsXOT


You easily can get the stream / url using Firefox and then view source.
with IE this is hidden.

Goodluck

[silps]

In case anyone is interested,
http://www.sharebigfile.com/en/file/3406/iDesitv-rar.html

I have made a video plugin. This means unzip to xbmc\plugins\video and then add it as a source.

It was a great way to understand how plugins work and how surprisingly easy it is!

Cheers mate, your plugin works great.

[silps]

http://rapidshare.com/files/85758962/iDesiTV.rar.html I made a bunch of m3u files, just upload them into your videos folder, and open them like a regular video file. Some of the channels don't work because, the source is dead probably. Its easy to make these kind of files, all you do is open the file in notepad and change the source links.

Thanks for these. The B4U channels didn't work when I tried them but they do work in EvilDude's plugin.

[EvilDude]

Just cleaned up the script a little bit (better regular expression to get a list of channels.)

Get it here,
http://www.prashantv.com/xbmc/iDesitv.rar

[silps]

Thanks Mr Dude, will try it out when I get a chance.

[the_optimist]

Great job, Evildude. Very educational. I was confused for a while by there being
a subdirectory of the same name, but I eventually figured it out.

[huscoolcal]

Hi Evildude - awesome work!!! Any chance we could get a list of the movies from bhejafry.net
moviesfromindia.com
rajshri.com

If you could share the docs you used to create this maybe I will give it a shot

[4cricket]

Just cleaned up the script a little bit (better regular expression to get a list of channels.)

Get it here,
http://www.prashantv.com/xbmc/iDesitv.rar

I am new to this, can you please explain what else I need to do to play video streams. I installed your files in plugins folder, now how do I play videos.

Thanks

[EvilDude]

You have to extract the folder into the plugins\video folder. Once there, you have to add it as a source in the Videos page. Go to add source in Videos, choose "Video Plugins", and iDesiTV should be there. Go over that choice, and press Add. Once added, browsing to that source should display a list of channels,and pressing on a channel should bring up a "Watch" item in the list which will open the video.

[4cricket]

You have to extract the folder into the plugins\video folder. Once there, you have to add it as a source in the Videos page. Go to add source in Videos, choose "Video Plugins", and iDesiTV should be there. Go over that choice, and press Add. Once added, browsing to that source should display a list of channels,and pressing on a channel should bring up a "Watch" item in the list which will open the video.

Great. thanks for your help. Never thought before, we can add video plugins as Video Source. Few links are not working, but others working, so I am all set.

thanks again.

[4cricket]

Looks like there is no cricket channels on idesiTV, can you guys check this link http://odesitv.blogspot.com/ and see if anything can be done.

thanks

[smithy]

Hi,

Many thanks for the plugin. However the format of the website has changed so the plugin no longer functions.

I hope you have the spare time and will to update this.

Cheers

Smithy

[EvilDude]

I have updated the plugin,
http://www.prashantv.com/xbmc/iDesitv.rar

I have only tested it on Windows, not on the xbox (lack of time!). It should work though - the debugging output says it should work.

- Prashant

[smithy]

Cheers dude,

That works fine here :cool:.

Respect.

Smithy

[ksk385]

I still not quite sure how this plugin is setup....I tried extracting this folder 'iDesiTV' to xbmc/plugins/video/

and I can't see any Plugin under Video, Add Source....also, I tried to extract it to the scripts folder - I see the script there but when I click it - it says running for a second and then just stops...am I using an older version of XBMC? Where can I check from? and if it is old, where can I get the newer version from?

What am I missing? Please advise.

Regards,

K

[EvilDude]

If you don't see "Video Plugins" in your add source in Videos, then your version is probably too old. I cannot help you with updating it - look up the forum rules.

Once you get the latest it should work fine.

[isiddiqi]

Thanks for this plugin, but has anyone noticed that only a few channels show up in the list and not all the channels from the site show up there?

With the old site it used to work perfectly, but now with the site's layout changed only a handful of channels show up in XBMC (Xbox)...

Would appreciate very much if that could be fixed when you get a chance?

[isiddiqi]

Thanks for this plugin, but has anyone noticed that only a few channels show up in the list and not all the channels from the site show up there?

With the old site it used to work perfectly, but now with the site's layout changed only a handful of channels show up in XBMC (Xbox)...

Would appreciate very much if that could be fixed when you get a chance?

Also I am talking about this issue with the 04/24/2008 version of the plugin...

[friendforever]

Starplus not working and it wont prompt you to install plug in please provide step by step info how to fix this issue,
thank you

[itismanu]

Script needs to be updated!! EvilDude help us!!!

[gadget_monk]

I modified the regex used in the script... but I still can't get it to work on Apple TV. The xbmc.log says:
16:30:31 T:44420096 M: 3411968 DEBUG: Running thread 44420096
16:30:31 T:44420096 M: 3411968 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
16:30:31 T:44420096 M: 3407872 INFO: CFileCache::Process - Hit eof.
16:30:31 T:45161984 M: 3407872 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
16:30:31 T:45161984 M: 3407872 DEBUG: CacheSubtitles: START
16:30:31 T:45161984 M: 3407872 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles done
16:30:31 T:45161984 M: 3407872 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
16:30:31 T:45161984 M: 3420160 ERROR: Open - error probing input format, http://94.75.220.137/idesitv.com-starplus-3j3333hx
16:30:31 T:45161984 M: 3420160 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer


Am i misisng any codces? Any ideas?

[isiddiqi]

Evildude, can you please fix this script? It seems iDesiTV has changed something at their front where now it plays a small clip before starting the channel feed. Would appreciate much.

[isiddiqi]

Nevermind they fixed the site :)

[Zero7]

I have updated the plugin,
http://www.prashantv.com/xbmc/iDesitv.rar

I have only tested it on Windows, not on the xbox (lack of time!). It should work though - the debugging output says it should work.

- Prashant
The link does not work. In same location there is a Zip file, but with that I am unable to get the links appearing under Video Pluggins. Any help is appreciated.

(Latest XBMC version, Vista 32bit)

[isiddiqi]

The link does not work. In same location there is a Zip file, but with that I am unable to get the links appearing under Video Pluggins. Any help is appreciated.

(Latest XBMC version, Vista 32bit)

Go here:

http://www.prashantv.com/xbmc

then click on iDesitv.zip to download.

Put the unzipped folder in plugins/video folder in your XBMC root area, and then access it thru video plugins from within XBMC gui, like any plugin.

[lazybums]

i just downloaded the latest xbmc , and put the idesitv.zip folder in plugin.
shows up in plugins, but does not show channels/feeds.

i m using xp. am i missing something, or other people having same issues

[isiddiqi]

i just downloaded the latest xbmc , and put the idesitv.zip folder in plugin.
shows up in plugins, but does not show channels/feeds.

i m using xp. am i missing something, or other people having same issues

I have no issues on XBOX or Windows :) Did you remember to unzip and then put the folder in plugins? The directory structure should look like below. With default.py visible

C:\Program Files\XBMC\plugins\video\iDesitv

[lazybums]

I m new to this, so please pardon my ignorance, but just cant to get past this last hitch.

unzipped Idesitv.zip.
Resulting Idesitv folder is copied into
1)c/program files/xbmc/plugins/videos.
2)(even tried to do it to c/documentsandsettings/myuserid/applicationdata/xbmc/plugins/videos)

then in xbmc, click on videos,add source , videoplugin, but then cannot find idesitv listed.

with the second option above, do find it listed, but then nothing happens when i select it.

what am i doing wrong.
Is there anything else besides the zip folder to be done. this is my first time trying to use xbmc and idesitv.

BTW, default.py location is c/programfiles/xbmc/plugins/videos/idesitv/idesitv/default.py.
Is there an extra layer of folder. i tried putting just the subfolder, but that does not work either. (ie c/programfiles/xbmc/plugins/videos/idesitv/default.py.

[isiddiqi]

I m new to this, so please pardon my ignorance, but just cant to get past this last hitch.

unzipped Idesitv.zip.
Resulting Idesitv folder is copied into
1)c/program files/xbmc/plugins/videos.
2)(even tried to do it to c/documentsandsettings/myuserid/applicationdata/xbmc/plugins/videos)

then in xbmc, click on videos,add source , videoplugin, but then cannot find idesitv listed.

with the second option above, do find it listed, but then nothing happens when i select it.

what am i doing wrong.
Is there anything else besides the zip folder to be done. this is my first time trying to use xbmc and idesitv.

BTW, default.py location is c/programfiles/xbmc/plugins/videos/idesitv/idesitv/default.py.
Is there an extra layer of folder. i tried putting just the subfolder, but that does not work either. (ie c/programfiles/xbmc/plugins/videos/idesitv/default.py.


I have it just like the #1 above, I don't think #2 would even work. Also the last path you mentioned is what works for me. I normally use Xbox, but on PC I noticed that it does not work if you add it as a source, but if you click on Video Plugins you see iDesitV along with the other plugins there as well and can run it from there.

[lazybums]

after a lot of copy pastes, finally this worked
hope it helps someone
instead of standard program files, .....
i noticed all the plugins were in this folder, and thats where it finally worked

c/documentsandsettings/myuserid/applicationdata/xbmc/plugins/videos/idesitv/default.py

and not
c/documentsandsettings/myuserid/applicationdata/xbmc/plugins/videos/idesitv/idesitv/default.py
the extra folder in this path nullifies the plugin.

[anamika]

I am using XBMC on AppleTV. I followed the directions, downloaded the iDesiTV zip, unzipped it and copied the contents to /frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/plugins/video.

Then I went under Video and Add Source, browsed to the iDesiTV folder and added it as a source. However, when I select it in my Video list, it just navigates into the folder, doesn't show me a list of channels.

I cannot seem to add it as a source in the Video Plugin folder located in the Video list. And I don't see an option to add a "Video Plugin" in the Add Source dialog box.

Can someone guide me a little better. I have downloaded and installed the latest XBMC on the ATV.

Thanks.

[lazybums]

try to find the folder where others are located , eg: nbc, cbs(whatever u have activated), and try to use the same folder. see my posts above , u may have to do some "try, try,try"

[sansat]

excellent plugin.

I have a question, when i try to play the channels on idesitv directly from browser, its plays fast but when I play it thru xbmc the buffering takes a while - any idea why this would be happenning ? I am running it in windows xbmc

once again - thanks for the wonderful plugin

pls let me know

[sansat]

Any idea EvilDude on buffering taking long in xbmc compared to internet browser ? Any setting to change in xbmc ?

[johoja]

Any idea EvilDude on buffering taking long in xbmc compared to internet browser ? Any setting to change in xbmc ?

The plugin for me only plays the short iDesiTV.com ad, and then doesn't play the actual channel.

This is on Linux, is no one else having this problem?

[sansat]

Anyone ? Any fix to this issue ?

[ht2k051]

no streams work for me...it just times out and does nothing...anyway to fix??

[bittihuduga]

most of the channels are down and are hosted on other site..
there is one more site www.livedesi.tv where more channels are listed. hope v can create one plug in for this

[flybynite]

most of the channels are down and are hosted on other site..
there is one more site www.livedesi.tv where more channels are listed. hope v can create one plug in for this

that would be sweet!

[awalkhan]

Watch Sahara Filmy Free on your PC

http://www.onlinetvpk.com/channel-sahara-filmy-tv.html

[johoja]

I made some changes to the idesitv plugin, and made it use desilive.tv .. did my best to clean up the channel names etc..but they dont seem to organize their site that well. Some channels won't work since their not using a regular stream (the p2p ones)

I made it pull the channel logos too, so maybe that will help.

http://pastebin.com/m63f38dbd

[hello_man]

How do I update the plugin?

[johoja]

How do I update the plugin?


Manually..

[anamika]

Manually..

Some instructions would be nice. Thanks.

[johoja]

I rar'ed it ..so just extract it into your plugins folder.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gmwnwymmjzd