[RELEASE] Fancast (Video) Plugin - Plugin by rectalogic, has loads of Hulu content [Archive]

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rwparris2

2009-02-23, 03:37

this thread is for the discussion of the Fancast plugin by retalogic.

Fancast has a lot of Hulu content (which they stream direct from Hulu) and does not suffer from the same pid encryption issues. I uploaded my Fancast plugin to github.

http://github.com/rectalogic/xbmc-fancast-plugin/tree/master

sion28

2009-02-23, 04:23

I'm not able to check right now, but can this be made available (or is it already?) on the repo installer?

pobresucka

2009-02-23, 09:23

they're working on it. Once again, great plugin. Let us know when movies work or the interface is updated. An alphabetical listing would do wonders!

hott198

2009-02-23, 17:14

works great however on xbmc movies are pretty low quality compared to the hulu plugin of past. would love the 480p quality of the hulu.

mique

2009-02-23, 22:07

I have found that when playing a tv series through Xbox1/XBMC it stops to buffer every 2 mins. or so. This never happened with Hulu plugin!
Any suggestions are welcome on how to fix this.
Thanks.

mique

2009-02-23, 22:08

OK, I think I found my problem, I had other programs rum=nning on my network that was taking the bandwidth.
Sorry I did not check this first.

ChinaRider

2009-02-24, 02:35

Forgive my ignorance but I can't figure out how to install the fancast plugin to xbmc on an xbox.

I don't see any instructions on the fancast plugin site.

When I copy all of the files from the fancast plugin site to my xbox under a 'fancast' folder in the plugins/videos folder, I get a fancast item in my video plugins but clicking on it does nothing...

Where can I find information on how to install the fancast plugin?

matt_

2009-02-24, 03:05

Copy the the Folder containing the Fancast files to the plugins/videos folder.

cap41

2009-02-24, 06:29

Sorry tried to read on my problem. when i go to a tv series, episode, i hit the play button and nothing happens, it goes back to the list...I cant figure out why it wont play...

nicoli_k

2009-02-24, 06:42

Sorry tried to read on my problem. when i go to a tv series, episode, i hit the play button and nothing happens, it goes back to the list...I cant figure out why it wont play...

i'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but you need to post a log so that we can at least try to help. there's not enough info to help solve anything. I realize it's your first post, so here's how to do it.
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_Submit_a_Proper_Bug_Report#Collecting_an_XBMC_d ebug_log

tastypopsicle

2009-02-24, 09:13

Sorry tried to read on my problem. when i go to a tv series, episode, i hit the play button and nothing happens, it goes back to the list...I cant figure out why it wont play...

Unfortunately, the Fancast plugin is not reliable. It doesn't play every TV series and people have said that it won't even play the movies. I think there is a bigger effort in getting the Hulu plugin to work. That's where the dev time appears to be based on forum posts. The quality of Hulu is much better and this new version of the plugin doesn't have commercials - so the payoff is looking better.

ChinaRider

2009-02-24, 13:43

Copy the the Folder containing the Fancast files to the plugins/videos folder.
Where can I find this folder? When I go to the fancast site linked in the original post at the top of this thread, the only thing I can find are individual files. What's more, when I save those files, they are all given .htm extensions. I've removed those extensions, placed them all in a 'fancast' folder and then put that folder in my plugins/videos folder. This results in the symptoms I mentioned in my other post - I can see a fancast plugin in my plugins menu but clicking on it does nothing.

Other plugins I've used are usually packaged as .zip or .rar files. What am I missing with regards to fancast? Makes me think I'm not in the right place for downloading the plugin but I've clicked through everything at the 'github' site and can't find it...

jleonar

2009-02-24, 14:06

Where can I find this folder? When I go to the fancast site linked in the original post at the top of this thread, the only thing I can find are individual files. What's more, when I save those files, they are all given .htm extensions. I've removed those extensions, placed them all in a 'fancast' folder and then put that folder in my plugins/videos folder. This results in the symptoms I mentioned in my other post - I can see a fancast plugin in my plugins menu but clicking on it does nothing.

Other plugins I've used are usually packaged as .zip or .rar files. What am I missing with regards to fancast? Makes me think I'm not in the right place for downloading the plugin but I've clicked through everything at the 'github' site and can't find it...

http://github.com/rectalogic/xbmc-fancast-plugin/tree/master

Now look towards the top you will see.

rectalogic / xbmc-fancast-plugin watch download

Click the download button and you can pick either tar or zip.

whufclee

2009-02-24, 14:23

I've also struggled to download this file too, the download option doesn't seem to work. Is this US only like Hulu?

nicoli_k

2009-02-24, 14:32

download links: http://download.github.com/rectalogic-xbmc-fancast-plugin-19888788178f3313c4d942ea5aa13c5e7a13f4c4.zip or http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3ac529c90e7c5ea4a0f2f20c509059d9e04e75f6 e8ebb871

lewis.donofrio

2009-02-24, 15:33

Anyone gotten a hold of the author to see if he has any updates for the goodness he put out last week....I'd like to watch movies from fancast but it doesn't seem to be able to construct the array?

--oh and the fancast is a great plugin...just wish Nova and Carrier worked )-:

sion28

2009-02-24, 17:30

Unfortunately, the Fancast plugin is not reliable. It doesn't play every TV series and people have said that it won't even play the movies. I think there is a bigger effort in getting the Hulu plugin to work. That's where the dev time appears to be based on forum posts. The quality of Hulu is much better and this new version of the plugin doesn't have commercials - so the payoff is looking better.

You must be a boxee user. The XBMC plugin never did have commercials. But let's be clear here for all the Hulu/Fox/NBC snoops who might be reading:

WE WOULD GLADLY WATCH COMMERCIALS ON HULU IF ALLOWED TO!

Not having commercials is NOT an "improvement". What we want is the convenience of Hulu, with or without commercials. We were never trying to steal anyone's copyrighted material. We want to watch it just like anyone with cable or an antenna, except we want the convenience and flexibility that Hulu offers.

liquid64

2009-02-24, 18:47

What are the chances of putting the season/episode into the description and/or sorting by that when viewing the episode listing? I really don't know python all that well, but it looks like it would be in the 'episodelist.py' file. I have checked to see if the rss stream supplies that info (season/episodeNum tags), and it does. I'm going to hack around, and see if I can get it, but I figured there might be someone watching that could point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

liquid64

2009-02-24, 20:28

Ok, in the 'episodelist.py' script, Underneath this line:

title = xml.getChildData(item, mediaNS, 'title')

I added:

if (xml.getChildData(item, cimNS, 'season') != "-1"): title = "S" + xml.getChildData(item, cimNS, 'season') + "E"+xml.getChildData(item, cimNS, 'episodeNum')+ ": "+xml.getChildData(item, mediaNS, 'title')

It looks like not every show has season/episodeNum info though. Thought I would post this if anyone was interested.

It's a shame that fancast doesn't host a smaller XML with just the movies in it. I removed all of the tv shows from the 'allvideos.xml', uploaded to my home webserver, and modified the url in the 'serieslist.py' script, and now have access to the movies.

mique

2009-02-24, 21:11

Fancast is working for me on XBOX1 (TV series).
The problem I have is that the latest episodes of '24' and Heroes are not shown on the list. I can see them on the Fancast website and could play them on my laptop. Is there something that needs to be done to download the latest episode list when I start the Fancast plugin?
I hope this is enough information to enable the knowledgeable to help

tastypopsicle

2009-02-24, 22:48

You must be a boxee user. The XBMC plugin never did have commercials. But let's be clear here for all the Hulu/Fox/NBC snoops who might be reading:

WE WOULD GLADLY WATCH COMMERCIALS ON HULU IF ALLOWED TO!

Not having commercials is NOT an "improvement". What we want is the convenience of Hulu, with or without commercials. We were never trying to steal anyone's copyrighted material. We want to watch it just like anyone with cable or an antenna, except we want the convenience and flexibility that Hulu offers.

I am a Boxee user. I just wanted to add that I agree 100% that I would GLADLY watch the commercials if Hulu worked in Boxee. If I want to watch TV episodes in Boxee I have to resort to torrents which doesn't help the folks at Fox/NBC at all.

skunkjar

2009-02-25, 00:03

XBMC/Xbox would also agree that hulu with adds would be far preferable to no hulu at all! Fancast is OK by me, most of the shows I like are working, so I can't complain.

maddmike

2009-02-25, 06:37

FYI Fancast plugin fans - this article points to the possibility of Fancast going to a subscriber option:

http://www.wral.com/news/technology/story/4603936/

Not reality yet, but looks like it is being investigated.

rashid420

2009-02-25, 07:25

I can only see TV shows with the Fancast plugin. The movie folders are all empty. What gives?

woodeye18

2009-02-25, 07:32

I believe some of the suits that put the pressure on were cable operators that pay a fee to deliver some of the content...so I would like to add, that I would be happy to watch the pre-existing ads as well as an ad meant to describe the convenience of cable TV. Seriously, it would be fine with me.

kreach

2009-02-25, 23:33

The current version of the plugin has the same problem the hulu plugin did if the rtmp url has a semicolon in it.

liquid64

2009-02-26, 00:08

I've been noticing that shows from NBC only (30 Rock, Chuck, Heroes), keep failing. Below is the log:
13:30:05 T:2684407808 M: 38014976 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com/ondemand/?auth=daEaideaFdvdRaKbRdgd1b9bMd3cma2a6am-bjPzXc-8-4qJBsFo1Dxs&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39484/14/528/HuluTranscode_68084_79247_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_977__ 6NoLhyyms0G-SUHthD6j2w;.international=false
13:30:05 T:2684407808 M: 38014976 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
13:30:05 T:56647680 M: 38006784 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
13:30:05 T:56676352 M: 38006784 INFO: Python script stopped
13:30:06 T:56647680 M: 36024320 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
13:30:06 T:56647680 M: 36032512 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles done
13:30:06 T:56647680 M: 36032512 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
13:30:07 T:56647680 M: 35438592 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com/ondemand/?auth=daEaideaFdvdRaKbRdgd1b9bMd3cma2a6am-bjPzXc-8-4qJBsFo1Dxs&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39484/14/528/HuluTranscode_68084_79247_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_977__ 6NoLhyyms0G-SUHthD6j2w;.international=false
13:30:07 T:56647680 M: 35446784 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
13:30:07 T:56647680 M: 35446784 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()

The ";.international=false" bit looks strange. I have never seen that in other streams.

rectalogic

2009-02-26, 01:21

The ";.international=false" bit looks strange. I have never seen that in other streams.

Yeah, I wonder if that should not be included as part of the filename when parsing the slist to get the filename:

http://xbmc.org/trac/browser/trunk/XBMC/xbmc/lib/libRTMP/rtmp.cpp#L519

kreach

2009-02-26, 02:02

rectalogic

2009-02-26, 04:42

I've modified episodeplayer.py to use the code found here (http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/source/browse/trunk/plugins/video/Hulu/resources/lib/stream_hulu.py#75) when playing hulu urls. A copy can be found at http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/263833/episodeplayer.py. This fixes the above problem.

I get a 500 error accessing that dropbox url.

Easiest way to submit patches is to clone the repository at github, commit all your changes to your cloned repo, then I can just git merge from that.

OK, dropbox is working now. I applied your patch on github, thanks.

liquid64

2009-02-26, 04:58

The new episodeplayer.py works great! Thanks a lot.

mcsmackton

2009-02-26, 18:16

just wanted to say thanks .. using the hulu plugin code helped a lot. most of the shows I was watching on hulu work fine through fancast on my xbox now.
this plugin is a great option while they iron out if/how they can get the hulu plugin working again.

jonm42

2009-02-26, 19:40

mcsmackton

2009-02-28, 17:27

So I was looking through what was on fancast and one of the shows had an episode with non ascii characters that wasnt showing up in the episodelist.

show listing page which I beleive the plugin is using:
http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/101082.xml

show url with the odd characters
http://www.fancast.com/tv/Ikki-Tousen/101082/882962365/Why-The-Betrayal-Of-G%C5%8Dei%21/videos

I spent a bit of time trying some stuff but need to read up on how you dump out debugging print statements on an xbox. Anyway I'm sure its a trivial fix so wanted to see if anyone had any quick ideas. I think its just the episodelisting.py file that would need a modification.

drsedlis

2009-02-28, 18:37

same as someone wrote, i see the plugin in my video plugin list but i got to start it and nothing happens.

the log tells me

11:17:02 M: 22626304 ERROR: Unable to load: Q:\plugins\video\rectalogic-xbmc-fancast-plugin-19888788178\resources\settings.xml, Line 0
Failed to open file
11:17:02 M: 22626304 ERROR: Unable to run plugin Q:\plugins\video\rectalogic-xbmc-fancast-plugin-19888788178\default.py
11:17:02 M: 22626304 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://video/rectalogic-xbmc-fancast-plugin-19888788178/) failed

I downloaded the plugin folder but I dont see any "resources" folder there so I guess maybe that's what is messing me up?

kreach

2009-02-28, 23:00

So I was looking through what was on fancast and one of the shows had an episode with non ascii characters that wasnt showing up in the episodelist.

show url with the odd characters
http://www.fancast.com/tv/Ikki-Tousen/101082/882962365/Why-The-Betrayal-Of-G%C5%8Dei%21/videos

I tried changing the code in episodelist.py to urllib.quote the title, which causes episode with non-ASCII characters to list. This works well for a lot of the episodes which were not listing due to a Unicode apostrophe, but for the episode you listed it replaces ō with *. Maybe someone can come up with a better solution.

isobsr

2009-03-01, 03:06

I fixed the date infoLabel so sorting by date works. You can now sort a show's videos and see which episode is newest.
I also moved the episode description to the "Plot" label. I couldn't find where to view it before. You can now view it by right clicking or pressing the white button and selecting "Movie Information".

update: my changes have been merged. get it from the first post.

jplatt

2009-03-03, 01:51

Ok I tried several difference versions of the fancast plugin and most shows dont seem to load (I'm using using windows Vista)

"The daily show loads but the audio is out of cinque. "House" wont load either. Most shows seem to lock or crach XBMC...

help please what am i doing wrong or is this just a fancast / hulu plugin....

BTW the video quality for the shows that do work is very good... but what gives with the audio and the crashing?

jplatt

2009-03-03, 02:36

Ok
I fixed the audio problem. I had the resolution in 1080i and going to full screen 1920 X1080 fixed that.

can someone please point me to the version of the fancast plugin where House MD works? thanks

nicoli_k

2009-03-03, 02:52

I'm using the fancast plugin from the beginning of the thread along with the new episode list from isobsr. here's the whole thing together. just unzip it and put it into plugins/video and make sure you have a fairly recent t3ch build. i'm using the build from jan 25 since the latest one has some graphical bugs in it that aren't sorted out as of yet.

here's where to get the plugin: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1d0d5b21d6e74877ed24a2875c7fa58ee04e75f6 e8ebb871

you may have to have cookies enabled to get it to download. i'm able to watch house using this setup on my xbox.

thepotatoman

2009-03-03, 06:02

The series Naruto: Shippûden seems to not showing up either, because of the û. I tried to make the changes kreach suggested but I just have no clue about python or web programing. Basically what i did was change:

title = xml.getChildData(item, mediaNS, 'title')

into

title = urllib.quote(xml.getChildData(item, mediaNS, 'title'))

And it only replaced %xx to all the spaces and punctuation in the episode list. I tried checking the "Ikki Tousen: Why? The Betrayal Of Gōei!" and that still didnt show up. I did the exact same change to serieslist.py and the exact same thing happened on the series list. %xx replaces spaces and punctuation and still no Shippûden.

So basically my question is what exactly did kreach change in order to get those results? Or should i just try to wait patiently for it to get patched?

isobsr

2009-03-03, 08:43

rectalogic

2009-03-03, 17:46

http://github.com/isobsr/xbmc-fancast-plugin/tree/master

All of isobsr's recent changes have been pulled into http://github.com/rectalogic/xbmc-fancast-plugin/tree/master as well.

thepotatoman

2009-03-03, 23:16

Ah yes that all seemed to work. Many thanks.

mique

2009-03-04, 04:55

jplatt

2009-03-04, 05:24

Still no house... Someone said something about cookies. is that a setting in XBMC or IExplorer?

jplatt

2009-03-04, 05:28

This is what is in the log file if this helps...

2:20:24 T:696 M:2663849984 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp39470.hulu.com&auth=daEcRaPdeaQd5clabd3bXaQc0a9agaxbabe-bjRFn4-8-ZnGEvCp1Hzn&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39478/14/723/HuluTranscode_69875_86411_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_976__ yT309dBP80KhmBbZN0N25A
22:20:24 T:696 M:2663837696 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:20:24 T:2836 M:2663776256 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
22:20:27 T:2836 M:2663456768 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
22:20:31 T:2836 M:2661830656 ERROR: rtmp server sent error
22:20:31 T:2836 M:2661826560 ERROR: rtmp server requested close
22:20:31 T:2836 M:2661826560 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Open - error reading from input stream, rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp39470.hulu.com&auth=daEcRaPdeaQd5clabd3bXaQc0a9agaxbabe-bjRFn4-8-ZnGEvCp1Hzn&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39478/14/723/HuluTranscode_69875_86411_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_976__ yT309dBP80KhmBbZN0N25A
22:20:31 T:2836 M:2661826560 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
22:20:31 T:2836 M:2661826560 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
22:20:31 T:2836 M:2661826560 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
22:20:31 T:696 M:2661830656 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp39470.hulu.com&auth=daEcRaPdeaQd5clabd3bXaQc0a9agaxbabe-bjRFn4-8-ZnGEvCp1Hzn&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39478/14/723/HuluTranscode_69875_86411_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_976__ yT309dBP80KhmBbZN0N25A]
22:20:31 T:696 M:2661851136 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
22:20:31 T:696 M:2661851136 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:20:31 T:696 M:2661851136 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
22:20:31 T:696 M:2661851136 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
22:20:48 T:696 M:2660954112 ERROR: Unable to load: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\plugins\video\Fancast\resources\setting s.xml, Line 0
Failed to open file
22:20:48 T:3368 M:2657382400 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
22:20:48 T:3368 M:2657382400 NOTICE:
22:20:48 T:696 M:2654076928 ERROR: Unable to load: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\plugins\video\Fancast\resources\setting s.xml, Line 0
Failed to open file
22:20:49 T:3928 M:2656837632 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
22:20:49 T:3928 M:2656837632 NOTICE:
22:20:56 T:696 M:2657943552 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp39470.hulu.com&auth=daEd2bqbKawc1akbPdLbOd0a8bgasczahbV-bjRFoy-8-0oLCxCp0Dxm&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39478/14/723/HuluTranscode_69875_86411_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_976__ yT309dBP80KhmBbZN0N25A
22:20:56 T:696 M:2657935360 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:20:56 T:1988 M:2657902592 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
22:20:59 T:1988 M:2657095680 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
22:21:02 T:1988 M:2656612352 ERROR: rtmp server sent error
22:21:02 T:1988 M:2656608256 ERROR: rtmp server requested close
22:21:02 T:1988 M:2656608256 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Open - error reading from input stream, rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp39470.hulu.com&auth=daEd2bqbKawc1akbPdLbOd0a8bgasczahbV-bjRFoy-8-0oLCxCp0Dxm&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39478/14/723/HuluTranscode_69875_86411_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_976__ yT309dBP80KhmBbZN0N25A
22:21:02 T:1988 M:2656608256 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
22:21:02 T:1988 M:2656608256 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
22:21:02 T:1988 M:2656608256 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
22:21:02 T:696 M:2656612352 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [rtmp://cp39470.hulu.com:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp39470.hulu.com&auth=daEd2bqbKawc1akbPdLbOd0a8bgasczahbV-bjRFoy-8-0oLCxCp0Dxm&aifp=NS20070910&slist=content/39478/14/723/HuluTranscode_69875_86411_FLASH_480K_16x9_23_976__ yT309dBP80KhmBbZN0N25A]
22:21:02 T:696 M:2656641024 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
22:21:02 T:696 M:2656641024 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:21:02 T:696 M:2656641024 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
22:21:02 T:696 M:2656641024 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
22:21:49 T:3252 M:2689961984 NOTICE: ES: Client from 127.0.0.1 timed out

skunkjar

2009-03-04, 05:32

My advice is to give up on Vista and just use Linux... I can watch House just fine on my Xbox...

nicoli_k

2009-03-04, 05:43

Still no house... Someone said something about cookies. is that a setting in XBMC or IExplorer?

I referred to cookies earlier, but that was for your web browser on the computer you were using to download the plugin that I uploaded to mediafire.com. there's no cookie settings in the plugin.

you should upload your entire log to pastebin.com or pastebin.ca to provide more information. you should also try the newest plugin from: http://github.com/rectalogic/xbmc-fancast-plugin/tree/master as was posted a few posts back.

isobsr

2009-03-04, 11:21

I am using the plugin on xbox/xbmc and all works good. One odd thing, I can see certain TV programs on the Hulu site but not through the plugin! the TV show 24 for instance is not showing the latest shows on the plugin!
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Thanks to all who help make this plugin work.

You are right, the latest episode is not showing up because it's not in the RSS feed. I've submitted a bug report to Fancast. If they don't fix it, we will have to scrape their site, which will really suck.

sofakng

2009-03-05, 01:50

Whenever I try to play any video with this plugin I'm getting an error about default.py...

It looks like something about a tag mismatch.

Also, I can't load the "All Movies" (it just hangs and if I press cancel than it errors about default.py again)

Here is the entire log: http://pastebin.com/m9c28148

jplatt

2009-03-05, 05:38

theMonolith

2009-03-05, 19:27

You are right, the latest episode is not showing up because it's not in the RSS feed. I've submitted a bug report to Fancast. If they don't fix it, we will have to scrape their site, which will really suck.

Is it possible to let the plugin follow custom RSS feeds?

Like I could create my own based on the shows I want to watch and then when I sit down to XBMC it would be able to see them and stream them.

nicoli_k

2009-03-05, 19:56

Sorry for the log crap in my last post...

I have posted a Debug log at http://pastebin.com/m5b50fd08

Its a fresh log with debugging enabled... I start XBMC (in Vista x64) I open up the fancast plugin and start an episode of the "Daily Show" it plays fine... then I open up an episode of "House" and I get a blank screen no buffering or anything... what is wrong? Sometimes it crashes and in this case it crashed when I exit XBMC other people seem to be able to get house...

many other shows do the same thing

I know I could try Ubunto but XBMC is acutally working quite well under Vista for other stuff like Xvid...

ohwell I guess there are always torrents...

any help would be appreciated

After taking a look at your log, it appears that you've got an older build of XBMC:

NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: Windows Vista, 32-bit Service Pack 1 build 6001. Built on Nov 13 2008 (compiler 1500)

The handling for RTMP wasn't implemented until at least a month later than November of 2008. You should upgrade your build to something more recent and try it again. I was able to view House using a builds from January 25, Feb 18, and March 3rd.

From my experience, the latest XBMC has been the best to use almost every time. I've only had to downgrade to the 2nd newest version once. I always keep a backup of the latest working version in case something is broken with it. I just rename the folder to "XBMC 1-25" or something so that it doesn't load by default, but I can still navigate to it from the newest build and run it if there are any problems and revert back to it if necessary.

jplatt

2009-03-06, 06:29

Ok, now i'm really confused, I installed on of the latest third party builds
http://www.mediafire.com/xbmc

but when I put the fancast plugin in there it doesnt appear to support plugins...
can you point me to a recent working build?

thanks

jplatt

2009-03-06, 06:42

ok I tried
XBMCSetup-Rev16953.exe
and house works... but XBMC goes out of full screen and moved to windowed mode how do I stop this???
which build is the best right now?

mcsmackton

2009-03-06, 07:20

thanks for the recent fixes guys. good stuff.

isobsr

2009-03-06, 08:44

Is it possible to let the plugin follow custom RSS feeds?

Like I could create my own based on the shows I want to watch and then when I sit down to XBMC it would be able to see them and stream them.

I looked at a few feeds and they fixed the problem already.

If you still want to do that, an easy way to add your feed url is to use the favorites feature. Add a show as a favorite, then edit the userdata/favorites.xml file.
This way, you won't have to edit the script.

theMonolith

2009-03-06, 21:37

I looked at a few feeds and they fixed the problem already.

If you still want to do that, an easy way to add your feed url is to use the favorites feature. Add a show as a favorite, then edit the userdata/favorites.xml file.
This way, you won't have to edit the script.

The two shows I am trying to watch are The Daily Show (http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/89142.xml) and The Colbert Report (http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/94816.xml) and they both are not updating properly.

I will have to try to use the favorites option to add it.

malsbury

2009-03-06, 22:43

The two shows I am trying to watch are The Daily Show (http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/89142.xml) and The Colbert Report (http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/94816.xml) and they both are not updating properly.

I will have to try to use the favorites option to add it.

I have only been using xbmc for about a week, and the Fancast plugin only a few days, but I have not had any problems getting the two shows listed above to work. They are a few days behind posting the shows, but the Fancast plugin is correctly showing what is available in the rss feed.

As a matter of fact I added them directly to my main list of video sources [sources.xml] to save time getting to them.

<source>
<name>TV - Fancast</name>
<path pathversion="1">plugin://video/Fancast/</path>
<thumbnail pathversion="1">E:\XBMC\media\fancast.png</thumbnail>
</source>
<source>
<name>TV - The Daily Show</name>
<path pathversion="1">plugin://video/Fancast/?episodeFeedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffb1.fancast.com%2Frss %2F89142.xml&module=episodelist&title=The+Daily+Sh ow+With+Jon+Stewart</path>
<thumbnail pathversion="1">E:\XBMC\media\tv.png</thumbnail>
</source>
<source>
<name>TV - The Colbert Report</name>
<path pathversion="1">plugin://video/Fancast/?episodeFeedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffb1.fancast.com%2Frss %2F94816.xml&module=episodelist&title=The+Colbert+ Report</path>
<thumbnail pathversion="1">E:\XBMC\media\tv.png</thumbnail>
</source>
You can remove the <thumbnail> section, that just points at some custom icons I made for different source types.

jplatt

2009-03-07, 02:08

Well I realy appreaciate all that XBMC has to offer... but the Obsesive Compulsive side of me wants to figure this out...

House still wont work... I click on an episode and it just sits there and does nothing... Most other shows work

here is my log file after I installed Build

http://pastebin.com/m2f0f40cd

XBMCSetup-Rev17640-jester-ffmpeg-mt.exe

Its the only recent build where I can get to video plugins... most all other builds
the plugins arent there...

I did have House fo a bit earlier today using build

XBMCSetup-Rev16989.exe

but as soon as I started the video it went out of full screen into windowed mode... but after trying a different build I reinstalled

XBMCSetup-Rev16989.exe and couldnt reproduce my success....

Any help would be appreciated...

rectalogic

2009-03-07, 04:45

House still wont work... I click on an episode and it just sits there and does nothing... Most other shows work

Looks like they are returning a bad URL. The mediaUrl in http://www.fancast.com/player.widget?videoId=1028507100 references http://release.hulu.com/content.select?pid=UfHCTmikBFHTUlWMZNBd1eIZfjbD5MM c&UserName=Unknown&balance=true&Tracking=true which returns an HTML 404 page.

liquid64

2009-03-07, 04:52

jdog

2009-03-07, 23:16

this plugin no longer loads on Mac or Apple TV under the latest boxee release that went out yesterday. maybe something to do with new App Box feature they intro'ed for finding/installing plugins?

jplatt

2009-03-08, 03:04

Some programs still work, like dinners drivins and dives, daily show, colbert report...
This is still the best plugin I've run with XBMC so far. It seems like wide screen programs dont work, but I'm not sure... there are a lot that dont work...

Hulu still not working? Too Bad....

rashid420

2009-03-08, 05:29

I think something is broken with this plugin as of sometime friday afternoon. It had been working fine, but now I can no longer start the stream. Just a guess, but I can't seem to find the rtmp address that the script is support to find in the final scrape. I might be wrong though.

I was watching Alfred Hitchcock just fine. Plus Woody Woodpecker :-)

Now nothing works for me with this plugin. Absolutely Nothing.

I took rectalogic's latest changes. I also tried isobrs' changes. Unclear if recta put iso's changes in his build.

Well, nothing works now for me. Given that the only other plugin that works for me now and gives good video quality is Movie2k - which aborts every few minutes - I'm now officially in Plugin Hell.

jooker

2009-03-08, 19:29

I have found the file containing the rtmp files but haven't bee successful at locating the file that calls it. Must find the file with this Uri to use in fancast plugin. I would expect that fancast is requesting this file from it's server and not hulu internally. But maybe some of you experts can figure this out. I don't know if this will help or not but I decided to post anyway.

http://s.hulu.com/select.ashx?pid=Nac_V5KcZWM_JLWi4D_w6_iK2QzWIw1S&auth=e2d0db173e10cb3db2158e17ca712f7e&noCache=14839

nicoli_k

2009-03-08, 23:57

here's a pastebin of my log for Mushi-shi, Howie Do It, and Scare Tactics which were working last week using the March 4 T3ch build on my xbox. The plugin is the latest version from post #43. I checked the website at fancast.com and the videos were working on the website. I'm not sure what has changed, but hopefully the debug log with provide insight.

http://pastebin.com/m7df07298

mique

2009-03-09, 22:09

Stopped working for me to!
If anyone needs a log let me know.
Using xbox1 with xbmc
Cheers to all who are helping

mique

2009-03-09, 22:36

Here is my log
http://pastebin.com/m41f846ba

jplatt

2009-03-13, 16:40

what happened to all the shows... theres about 50% less shows now and daily show, cobert report, most are gone? some links still work, this must be a fancast thing, is this plugin dead now?

are there better alternatives?

mcsmackton

2009-03-14, 02:33

so many of the shows were content from hulu. in a way we were accessing hulu content through a backdoor they had not completely shut yet. my guess is that they got around to it. anyway there are cbs and nbc plugins i believe in the svn repository that work. wont replace hulu/fancast but its something. id be shocked if someone doesnt find a clever way to get this working again but between needing smart people to work on this in their spare time and the problem being non trivial it would be impossible to guess when it might get fixed.

stacked

2009-07-16, 10:10

Looks like they are returning a bad URL. The mediaUrl in http://www.fancast.com/player.widget?videoId=1028507100 references http://release.hulu.com/content.select?pid=UfHCTmikBFHTUlWMZNBd1eIZfjbD5MM c&UserName=Unknown&balance=true&Tracking=true which returns an HTML 404 page.

did you find way around this?