[RELEASE] Free Cable - US station aggregator

The ABC show been doing that to me for a few months so I just watch the ABC shows on Hulu.

teefer22 Wrote:springroll: I'm in Canada and I just watched the entire 43 minute episode #1 of the river without issue. I know that doesn't really help you specifically, other than it doesn't seem to be a geo-blocking type problem.

Yes, that was the one I watched without an issue as well.

mrdally204: I will try to add more comments. I tried to be descriptive of the variables so it could be understood.

PatrickBateman: I am planning a little pop up menu with the list of stations that you can click to enable or disable a station by selecting one.

I had a few stations mostly complete so I just put them up. they include GSN, Nickelodeon , Nick Toons, and Teen Nick. they work for full episodes.

I am liking this WB site. It has some good shows.

springroll Wrote:Yes, that was the one I watched without an issue as well.

After watching episode #2, I found the same thing.

I think the problem will get resolved when bluecop gets around to updating ABC because Free Cable is resolving episode #2 to this:
DVDPlayer: Opening: rtmp://abcondemandfs.fplive.net/abcondemand playpath=mp4:/abcvideo/video_fep/mov/riv_102_marbeley_episode_478cffe3-a6ce-43c6-8b22-6ff37cd6783a_4254960_768x432_1600.mov swfurl=http://livepassdl.conviva.com/ver/2.27.0.42841/LivePassModuleMain.swf swfvfy=true

and Navi-X (which doesn't seem to have this issue) is resolving the same episode to:
DVDPlayer: Opening: rtmp://abconline.fcod.llnwd.net:443/a4473/e1/ tcUrl=rtmp://abconline.fcod.llnwd.net:443/a4473/e1/ app=a4473/e1 playpath=mp4:/abcvideo/video_fep/mov/riv_102_marbeley_episode_478cffe3-a6ce-43c6-8b22-6ff37cd6783a_4254960_768x432_1600.mov swfUrl=http://ll.static.abc.com/IMPORT/livepassdl.conviva.com/ver/2.8.0/LivePassModuleMain.swf pageUrl=http://abc.go.com/watch/the-river/SH55126546/VD55168730/marbeley?br=1600

WildBill Wrote:The ABC show been doing that to me for a few months so I just watch the ABC shows on Hulu.

Thanks for confirming that it's not a Geo-blocking issue. Whew, good knowing that I'm not the only one experiencing the same issue.

BlueCop - Were you aware of the issue (i.e. ABC shows only play for about 5-10 minutes before abruptly stopping and returning to episodes menu)?

Awesome update bluecop. Here are a couple more fixes for the next time you update:

thewb.py (adding proxy support in two places in this file):
def rootlist(db=False):
xbmcplugin.setContent(int(sys.argv[1]), 'tvshows')
if (common.settings['enableproxy'] == 'true'):
proxy = True
else:
proxy = False
data = common.getURL(BASE_URL,proxy=proxy)

AND

def fullepisodes(url=common.args.url):
xbmcplugin.setContent(int(sys.argv[1]), 'episodes')
if (common.settings['enableproxy'] == 'true'):
proxy = True
else:
proxy = False
data = common.getURL(url,proxy=proxy)


tvland.py (just need to comment out two s1url related lines, this makes hot in cleveland work. I don't believe this has anything to do with the fact i'm using a proxy. I think this is required because hot in cleveland has no season 2 episodes online anymore.):

def hic_episodes():
epoch = str(int(time.mktime(time.gmtime())*1000))
#s1url = 'http://www.tvland.com/fragments/search_results/related_episodes_seasons?_='+epoch+'&showId=25573&seasonId=41909&episodeId=43520'
s2url = 'http://www.tvland.com/fragments/search_results/related_episodes_seasons?_='+epoch+'&showId=25573&seasonId=27283&episodeId=43520'
s3url = 'http://www.tvland.com/fragments/search_results/related_episodes_seasons?_='+epoch+'&showId=25573&seasonId=44996&episodeId=46849'
#episodes(s1url)
episodes(s2url)
episodes(s3url)


Super big thanks if you consider these updates for the next update and as always, thanks for taking the time to update this awesome plugin.

Hi all...

Having problems with theWB shows...none of them have sound, and they're all pretty choppy. Shouldn't be a problem with the site itself, I was scraping a few of the shows from the old KidsWB plugin, and the same shows were fine there. Any tips/suggestions?

binarybomber: I would need to know much more about the specifics of your setup and logs of the problem.

what do you mean by choppy? playback or buffering?

also specify which videos you have problems with

Just glad to see that BC is continuing his amazing work. Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into this and all your other plugins.

Thanks a lot for the updates on this, and ESPN3. I'm glad you're back at it!