[RELEASE] EeasyNews & VCD Quality (Video) Streaming/Download Plugin

[nate12o6]

first plugin so i am going to post screen shots
http://nathan.greneaux.com/screenshot000.JPG
Basically what this plugin does is it goes to vcdquality.com and checks for any
new dvd rips.
http://nathan.greneaux.com/screenshot001.JPG
http://nathan.greneaux.com/screenshot003.JPG
It will then take the rip that you choose and pass it to easynews where you can then choose to download or stream it
http://nathan.greneaux.com/screenshot004.JPG


Currently i have it using threads to get imdb info.

I plan on adding support to search directly to easynews.

And a few other things.

Let me know what yall think and if anyone has any ideas to improve it.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/07c107/n/Easynews_zip

[Voinage]

Excellent work Nate.

[MrGlass]

This one doesn't seem to work for me and I was hoping for some insight. I turned on debugging. Can I just post the relevant log snippet here or is there some other acceptable way of displaying the log snippet?

[nate12o6]

yes. please post the log snippet. But im guessing the problem is that you did not set the settings for you username and password? You do this by pressing the white button on the plugin and clicking plugin settings. If you do not think this is the cause please post the log.

[Temhil]

Hi,

It seems to be a very nice plugin, good job!
It doesn;t work for me, I was wonderring if the webiste is doing Ip filtering (like Hulu) and if the issue is something else?
Thanks in advance.

[nate12o6]

no there is no filtering. You have to have an easynews account to use it.

[weateallthepies]

Nice, I'll try this out later. :grin:

Might be worth using the https easynews service rather than http.

If I'm right it should be a bit more secure in terms of passing your username and password in the URL. I seem to recall in https you make the secure connection before passing those but I may be wrong.

UPDATE: Tested it out and working quite nicely. A search using the global search would be nice. Got me thinking about other things that could be tied into easynews, something like rlslog.net would be a good source for movies and TV and most of that will hit easynews.

Thanks, I'll definitely use this one.

[nate12o6]

Global search will definately be the next feature i add.
I will definately look at rslog for tv rips and music.

I just dont like how they do the movie listing. Its not very uniform.

Ill also switch http to https.

[XBMCG33K]

A www.easynews.com/ user/pass? If that's the case it's a pay site is anyone is curious. :(

[nate12o6]

A www.easynews.com/ user/pass? If that's the case it's a pay site is anyone is curious. :(

Whats with the frown??? if you dont want to use it, no biggy. Dont use it.

[XBMCG33K]

No sir I would love to use it but don't have the account. Hence the frown.

[weateallthepies]

Global search will definately be the next feature i add.
I will definately look at rslog for tv rips and music.

I just dont like how they do the movie listing. Its not very uniform.

Ill also switch http to https.

Cool, thanks for your efforts on this one. I've been chucking URLs from easynews to xbmc for ages using the web service but it's nice to have a plugin so I don't have to use the laptop. :grin:

If rlslog isn't too good then you could try http://www.scnsrc.net/ or even http://scenereleases.info/. There are plenty around but not sure if any use any kind of uniform listing.

Global search would prob be the biggest used feature. Would be great for music too, loads of good stuff on usenet.

Damn I might even use up some of my gig bank. :cool:

[tbird2340]

Any chance of incorporating other usenet hosts?

[weateallthepies]

Any chance of incorporating other usenet hosts?

It's unlikely as this and the older easynews script rely on the web interface that easynews provides. There is no requirement for decoding/unraring as there would be just hitting an nntp server.

As far as I know easynews are the only provider that does something like this.

[nate12o6]

It's unlikely as this and the older easynews script rely on the web interface that easynews provides. There is no requirement for decoding/unraring as there would be just hitting an nntp server.

As far as I know easynews are the only provider that does something like this.

Yea.. Easynews is exactly that.... Easy...

But i do plan on releasing a version that will have global search in the next few days. Its the hollidays and i am not at my house..

[xbmcJJ]

Disclaimer: I'm very new to xbmc

Running XBMC 8.10 SVN:16164 on Ubuntu 8.04.

I have an easynews account and have installed and used the sabnzbd plugin successfully.

In reply to someone else's issue you said:

yes. please post the log snippet. But im guessing the problem is that you did not set the settings for you username and password? You do this by pressing the white button on the plugin and clicking plugin settings. If you do not think this is the cause please post the log.

When I drill down into Videos/Video Plugins/Easynews, I only see a folder icon for the VCDQuality videos. I don't see a "white button" on the plugin, though. Or are you referring to the color of an XBOX remote button?

I'm sure I have to put in my user/password for easynews somewhere, but I can't figure out where.

Thanks for any help you can provide.


OK - so white button = title button on the xbox remote, or guide button on my harmony remote (brings up a menu with plugin settings)

I was able to enter my easynews userid/pass, but it still doesn't show anything when I drill down to VCD Quality videos, it says easynews 100%, searching, then gives me a next folder, and if i drill down into that it says loading directory, retrieved 0 items, etc.

[nate12o6]

Have you tried a different movie title? Perhaps the title you are looking for is not available on easynews??

[xbmcJJ]

IIRC, I never had anywhere to enter search parameters. I think I just drilled down.

In any case, parts are on the way to build a real HTPC - the one I used with your plugin was a test.

I plan to make this one of the first plugins I test on the new build and will post back here if I still have issues.