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- BlueCop - 2011-07-27

pkellum Wrote:Let me know, or ask in the forum, before you add anything that hasn't been aired on TV. Those things are against the rules, but we might be able to work with you on it. We are allowing more "broadcast on internet" stuff lately, but what is allowed is still in flux.

Sorry I may have worded that so it was confusing. I didn't mean the specials. I meant some of the tv shows in that category because they don't have meta data in tv db. Many of the shows have placeholders but just no information is in the database. I was just looking to update those. The ed sullivan show is one that comes to mind. I just exclude the show from the main listings if no data about is available. I will head over to the forum and follow proper procedures if I try to add anything.

edit: err I was excluding some shows when I shouldn't have. fixed that now.

fotoshack: sure. they are using the cbs infrastructure to host the videos so it will be fairly easy because it just requires some scraper code for the site because the playback is the same as cbs.

leorik: "WARNING: HandShake: Type mismatch: client sent 6, server answered 9" theres your problem. Look back in the thread a bit for links on updating librtmp to solve this.


- BaronBaron - 2011-07-30

Hello, I have updated the librtmp file on my ATV2 and ABC and CBS work but most of the other stations don't work for me.

My XBMC is pre-11.0 Git:20110515-ab3a9fc
atv2 is 4.2.2

Can somebody point me in the right direction?

Edit: I decided to just do a complete reinstall of my atv2 from scratch, broke with seasonpass and after all updated the librt file and all is good. thanks


- xkamuix - 2011-07-31

Out of curiosity is there anything in the works for the cache/loading times of items in Free Cable?

Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not a huge issue, but would be nice if it loaded faster.

Not trying to sound demanding sorry!


- Fenriz - 2011-08-06

Great add-on! Had some issues prior to updating the librtmp. But after i updated the librtmp file, everything is working great so far! Thanks again for a great add-on Smile


- docmichael - 2011-08-06

I agree! Startrek.com would be great addition to this already awesome plugin!
many thanks!


- OOge - 2011-08-07

I would love to have all sorts of discovery and history channels.
Also would like HBO's, A&E, E, BIO's, Hallmark.
So we can watch all good shows/series on those channels in Europe Smile


- shuneycutt - 2011-08-09

No luck for me on my ATV2.

Darwin 11.0.0
atv2/ios librtmp 2.4 - place in correct directory
Free Cable add on

Below is the log file that I have when I try to access any of the TV stations:

start of FREE CABLE plugin
02:41:10 T:105787392 NOTICE: FREE CABLE --> common :: getHTML :: url = http://www.fox.com/full-episodes/
02:41:10 T:105787392 NOTICE: Error reason:
02:41:10 T:105787392 NOTICE: [Errno 7] no address associated with hostname.
02:41:10 T:105787392 INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--
02:41:10 T:105787392 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
02:41:10 T:105787392 ERROR: Error Contents: expected string or buffer
02:41:10 T:105787392 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.free.cable/default.py", line 43, in <module>
modes ( )
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.free.cable/default.py", line 39, in modes
exec 'sitemodule.%s()' % common.args.sitemode
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.free.cable/resources/lib/fox.py", line 26, in rootlist
tree=BeautifulSoup(data, convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.HTML_ENTITIES)
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup/lib/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1519, in __init__
BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup/lib/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1144, in __init__
self._feed(isHTML=isHTML)
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup/lib/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1168, in _feed
smartQuotesTo=self.smartQuotesTo, isHTML=isHTML)
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup/lib/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1770, in __init__
self._detectEncoding(markup, isHTML)
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.module.beautifulsoup/lib/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1915, in _detectEncoding
'^<\?.*encoding=[\'"](.*?)[\'"].*\?>').match(xml_data)
TypeError: expected string or buffer
02:41:10 T:105787392 INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------
02:41:10 T:105787392 INFO: Python script stopped
02:41:10 T:105787392 DEBUG: Thread XBPyThread 105787392 terminating
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: waiting for python thread 8 to stop
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: python thread 8 destructed
02:41:10 T:104509440 DEBUG: WaitOnScriptResult - plugin exited prematurely - terminating
02:41:10 T:78528512 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/?url=""&mode="fox"&sitemode="rootlist"&name="FOX"
02:41:10 T:78528512 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/?url=""&mode="fox"&sitemode="rootlist"&name="FOX") failed
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/)
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: ParentPath = [addons://sources/video/]
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: Loading fileitems [plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/]
02:41:10 T:78528512 DEBUG: -- items: 14, directory: plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/ sort method: 0, ascending: false
02:41:10 T:105787392 DEBUG: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: 0
02:41:11 T:78528512 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogProgress.xml) ------
02:41:11 T:78528512 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogBusy.xml) ------
02:41:11 T:105787392 DEBUG: Thread Background Loader 105787392 terminating
02:41:15 T:78528512 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------


Any suggestions? Would like to avoid re-jailbreaking if possible.

Thanks!


- BlueCop - 2011-08-09

Please post logs to a paste service like pastebin. it it harder to read and adds clutter to the forum.

It looks like something is wrong with the internet connection from the log. It seems to not be able to look up the host.


- eriqjaffe - 2011-08-09

docmichael Wrote:I agree! Startrek.com would be great addition to this already awesome plugin!
many thanks!
Add me to the list of people who would love to see startrek.com added to this.


- shuneycutt - 2011-08-10

I can ping http://www.apple.com and other random sites from my ATV2. However, when I try to ping http://www.fox.com/full-episodes/ it doesn't get a connection. Same with all the other networks. Very peculiar why those sites are being blocked on my ATV2.


- shuneycutt - 2011-08-10

Just found out that I can't ping http://www.cbs.com/video/ or other networks from my Macbook. Starting to think that maybe TimeWarner is blocking access. Accessing http://www.cbs.com/video/ from Firefox works fine just not from terminal.


- BlueCop - 2011-08-10

thats disturbing if true. Do you have wireshark? It is a free program to capture and analyze network traffic. http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

if you could try captureing the browser and command line traffic then it could be analyzed. drop me a pm i can take a look at them.


- Hudson_Hawk04 - 2011-08-10

they changed some stuff around on the page


- shuneycutt - 2011-08-11

Update:

I update ATV2 to IOS 4.2.2
Jailbroke w/ Seasonpass
Reinstalled XBMC - 11.0.0
Reinstalled Free Cable

Everything works perfectly now.

FYI - ping command for http://www.cbs.com/video/ doesn't work in terminal most likely because it is turned off on their server to prevent Denial of Service attacks.

Using the curl command shows that the ATV2 can get to http://www.cbs.com/video/.

Now I just need to get Pandora working and I'm set!


- burnmacs - 2011-08-12

I'm having the issue where Colbert and Stewart are not working (but Hulu is). It's exactly described as issue 54 at:

http://code.google.com/p/bluecop-xbmc-repo/issues/detail?id=54#c0

any ideas?

Thanks!