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- sproket - 2012-01-23

Any word on Discovery channel being added? Enjoy Gold Rush


- goofygames - 2012-01-23

goofygames Wrote:Please dont bash me for not having my logs here. I notice everyone saying that everything is workingbut mine are not. The ones i am having problems with is USA, and CBS has never worked for me. I am running Eden Beta and my version does show 0.2.3. Just wondering if this has anything to do with being in Canada?

There are 2 TV shows that work in CBS. 60 mins and 48 hours Mystery both work but that is it. Is there something i need to change to get the rest of the shows to stream. They all say "Scipt Failed:plugin.video.free.cable"

60 mins and 48 Hours Mystery work but that is it. Would that still be a Canada issue if i can watch 2 shows but none of the others. Im on the road right now so no logs.

Would really like to have this channel working as everything we watch is on here.


- Mighty_Diamond - 2012-01-23

How about the inclusion of http://www.fox.com/full-episodes/ I know content that is new is locked from the time of broadcast unless you have a DISH account, but 8 days later is opened up and availble for free? Wouldn't be a quick way of catching up, but would be a good way to watch programmes from fox in High Quality and legally.

Was also going to suggest http://www.sho.com but I believe that to be locked all the timeHuh


- BlueCop - 2012-01-23

i am not sure about international problems.

fox was once included. they are using a new streaming method with drm. fx is now doing the same. it is noted in the first post.

showtime isn't likely because of subscription to cable. edit: it seems they have free episodes

no plans to commit any new stations soon. i have some half finished stuff.


- angel4b - 2012-01-24

I'm having troubles watching primetime shows on cbs. i can browse my way to a particular tv show, but i can't get that last menu that actually lists the available episodes for that show.

File "Q:\plugins\video\Free Cable\resources\lib\cbs.py", line 230, in newvideos

for video in itemList:

TypeError: argument 1 must be unicode or str

The second issue i have is that some builds of xbmc are better at requesting the small versions of the videos that are easier for my xbox to play. I try playing with settings and it keeps requesting 1280x720 instead of 896x504 which my xbox can actually play at 23fps instead of 7fps.

Here are logs of old 31071 build with smaller file requested http://pastebin.com/KD3uqZiW

Newer 31086 build with larger file requested http://pastebin.com/arFAZ50N

Neither one can play CBS primetime.


- SamHill - 2012-01-24

Just a quick note to say, Thanks BlueCop for a great add-on. My wife and I use this everyday.


- remlap - 2012-01-24

Hi wonderful add one, I am wondering if there is away to hide what doesn't work for people outside the US.


- allmotormark - 2012-01-24

^ this would be great!!


- BlueCop - 2012-01-24

remlap & allmotormark: Who is going to make and maintain this list? because I don't know that information.


SamHill: thanks. Amazing work on the hulu artwork. I actually enjoy just looking at them


CBS Not working. - John410312 - 2012-01-24

I think everything else is working. I just can't get CBS to come up. I've enabled Proxy in the setup.

BTW, where do I find the XBMC.log file for easy reference?


- allmotormark - 2012-01-25

I have to check but I thought I had an add-on (not sure which one) that has an option to block geo blocked sites, let me see I will look into it if not I will try to make up a list maybe can be listed here.


- remlap - 2012-01-25

BlueCop Wrote:remlap & allmotormark: Who is going to make and maintain this list? because I don't know that information.

Hmm what I'd do is make it the users choice to tick what they want to see available.

I am just trying to make it as user friendly for my semi computer literate parents. Smile

Great plugin btw.


CBS on Free Cable failure - zekeb - 2012-01-25

Here is a section of my log file showing the failure of a CBS show:






start of FREE CABLE plugin
21:27:58 T:140724804777728 M:2909278208 NOTICE: FREE CABLE --> common :: getHTML :: url = http://www.cbs.com/carousels/25323/video/0_video_small/b6de8288d336e9b7f22b2f69d15c9f9a/0/400/
21:27:58 T:140724804777728 M:2909659136 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.TypeError
21:27:58 T:140724804777728 M:2909659136 ERROR: Error Contents: argument 1 must be unicode or str
21:27:58 T:140724804777728 M:2909659136 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/xxxx/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.free.cable/default.py", line 49, in ?
modes ( )
File "/home/xxxx/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.free.cable/default.py", line 45, in modes
exec 'sitemodule.%s()' % common.args.sitemode
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "/home/xxxx/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.free.cable/resources/lib/cbs.py", line 230, in newvideos
for video in itemList:
TypeError: argument 1 must be unicode or str
21:27:58 T:140726033852384 M:2909659136 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/?url="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbs.com%2Fcarousels%2F25323%2Fvideo%2F0_video_small%2Fb6de8288d336e9b7f22b2f69d15c9f9a%2F0%2F400%2F"&mode="cbs"&sitemode="newvideos"&name="Full+Episodes"
21:27:58 T:140726033852384 M:2909659136 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/?url="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbs.com%2Fcarousels%2F25323%2Fvideo%2F0_video_small%2Fb6de8288d336e9b7f22b2f69d15c9f9a%2F0%2F400%2F"&mode="cbs"&sitemode="newvideos"&name="Full+Episodes") failed
21:28:03 T:140724804777728 M:2909458432 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:28:05 T:140724804777728 M:2909331456 NOTICE: common.args
21:28:05 T:140724804777728 M:2909331456 NOTICE: {'url': 'http://www.cbs.com/carousels/25323/video/0_video_main/b6de8288d336e9b7f22b2f69d15c9f9a/0/400/', 'sitemode': 'newvideos', 'name': 'Most Popular Clips', 'mode': 'cbs'}
21:28:05 T:140724804777728 M:2909331456 NOTICE: addoncompat.py: XBMC Revision not available - Version String: 10.1 Git:xbmc-10.1.tar.gz
21:28:05 T:140724804777728 M:2909331456 NOTICE:

I think I am having the same failure with the CW, too?


- BlueCop - 2012-01-25

zekeb: have you tried Eden Beta 2?

I think it is a problem with Dharma builds. I don't have anything running dharma right now.


- zekeb - 2012-01-25

OK, Eden-pre is not yet built for my distro, and I have avoided building myself.

I suppose I should go ahead and build it as it seems most of the repos have already moved over and are no longer updating Dharma versions.