Video Devil plugin status

[spiff]

ty

[sonic]

Thnx for the updates

[ossman]

I'm running the latest XBMC from svn on Linux, and I'm unable to get anything decent out of the plugins.

First off there is a problem with both VideoDevil and VideoMonkey assuming that the current directory is ~/.xbmc/plugins/video/VideoMonkey (or VideoDevil). This is basically never true, so the plugins normally fail to even start.

Starting xbmc in the correct directory makes that plugin work, but I can of course not be in two directories at once so only one plugin is usable.

Even when I do that hack, I don't get anything decent from the sources. Searching results in things like this:

21:58:32 T:139678154053824 M:1868312576 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://video/VideoDevil/?url=title: Search &type:search&icon:/home/xbmc/.xbmc/plugins/video/VideoDevil/resources/images/search.png&genre:YouPorn&director:VideoDevil&cfg:y ouporn.com.cfg&url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youporn.com%2F search%3Fquery%3D%25s

Help

[ossman]

Poking around in the code, the first problem is fairly obvious:

rootDir = os.getcwd()

Not good. I'm not sure what the proper way to do this is, but sys.argv[0] contains the "xbmc path" to the script, i.e. "plugin://video/VideoDevil/". Doing xbmc.translatePath() on that gives "special://home/plugins/video/VideoDevil/" and doing it again gives "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/plugins/video/VideoDevil/" which is finally something that can be used.

No idea about the second problem though...

[ossman]

Second problem was me being clumsy. I had the wrong permissions on the directory so the plugin couldn't write anything:

So adding these lines at the beginning of the scripts solves it for me:

rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(sys.argv[0])
rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(rootDir)

Hopefully that can lead you to a more proper solution.

[Bootsy]

Originally Posted by ossman

Second problem was me being clumsy. I had the wrong permissions on the directory so the plugin couldn't write anything:

So adding these lines at the beginning of the scripts solves it for me:

rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(sys.argv[0])
rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(rootDir)

Hopefully that can lead you to a more proper solution.

can anyone confirm that?

greets