[RELEASE] Amazon Prime Instant Video plug-in addon

Hey Guys, I couldn't find the info, whenever I use the plug in it works great, but nothing shows up in the recently added category for movies, anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Mo

(2012-08-03 00:28)shortskoolbus Wrote:  Hello Bluecop,

Do you have any idea why some TV shows won't export to the library? For example i can export "Deadliest Catch" with no problems, but when i try to export "Top Gear (UK)" it won't show up in the library.

The (UK) is throwing XBMC's scraper off so it doesn't get added to the library. Browse to it's folder in files view, open the context menu and go to Info. From there select refresh and choose the appropriate show from the list that shows up. After that, update your library and it should show up. You'll have to do this once for each show that does this, but further episodes stored in that same folder should be added without trouble

(2012-08-06 00:33)Bstrdsmkr Wrote:  

(2012-08-03 00:28)shortskoolbus Wrote:  Hello Bluecop,

Do you have any idea why some TV shows won't export to the library? For example i can export "Deadliest Catch" with no problems, but when i try to export "Top Gear (UK)" it won't show up in the library.

The (UK) is throwing XBMC's scraper off so it doesn't get added to the library. Browse to it's folder in files view, open the context menu and go to Info. From there select refresh and choose the appropriate show from the list that shows up. After that, update your library and it should show up. You'll have to do this once for each show that does this, but further episodes stored in that same folder should be added without trouble

Ahh great, got it! Was having the problem with several more shows but it's working fine now. Thanks so much for your help!

Has anyone gotten this working in the Android build yet? Mine will list everything fine but won't play anything.
http://pastebin.com/6iA6Qepf

I am having trouble with this plugin -- for no reason at all, the video will start buffering, sometimes quite frequently. it will go several episodes sometimes with no problems, and then just start doing it for no reason! It happens most often after pausing, but not always. i am on a 18Mbps connection, and nothing else is using the internet. Any suggestions? It is an ION revo 1600. Is the buffering message caused by a slow cpu transcoding? Or, is it definitely a download-buffer?

Bluecop -

First, you are epic for this plugin.

I'm having a problem whenever I try to export Amazon content to the library on my mac. I get the "Script Failed : plugin.video.amazon" error. My logs show the error below. (It fills up more than the "code" block allows without scrolling. I've removed some blank lines, nothing else.)

I feel like I'm making an obvious mistake. Any suggestions?

Thanks much!

Hi, Bluecop. I hope I'm not bothering you, but I just installed your Amazon plugin recently and all I get when I try to use it is "FAILED TO LOGIN." I know I'm putting the correct login email and password into the add-on settings - I checked it several times and logged into the website with the same credentials. I installed the repository from the link at this site: http://www.howtogeek.com/1/13491/how-to-...-on-xbmc/. I suppose it's possible that isn't the latest repo plugin, but wouldn't the repo then install the latest version?

I'm running XBMC on a Win7 x64 machine. XBMC is currently loaded on a shell-less account - meaning it loads XBMC and never loads MS Explorer. It's AMD 6-core with an Nvidia GPU. The network is wired and connected - I downloaded the plugins after all and attempted to connect immediately afterward. I'm also typing this post from the same machine.

Can you offer any help? Am I doing anything wrong?

UPDATE:

I figured out my problem. I was using the SUBSTITUTE string in my advancedsettings.xml file for addon settings to locate the settings in a centralized location rather than the local userdata folder. Every time I would attempt to edit the configuration settings it wouldn't save. I removed the substitution from the .xml file (which wasn't helping me anyway - I implemented it hoping that a change to one skin on one machine would affect the others as well but it didn't work) and the settings saved successfully. No help required here, thanks.

Is there a way to play HD movies on XMBC for the PC? Like for instance in the link below there's a blue banner at the top that says you can play the movie in HD on compatible devices, but it will not play in HD on my XBMC installation. The same movie does play in HD on my TV in the den though.

http://www.amazon.com/Vanilla-Sky/dp/B000IZ8VDK/

Hi Bluecop. Kudos on the Amazon addin. Thank you for doing this.

One small item. When accessing TV series, the episodes shown in each season seem to be limited to the first 20 of the season. Many shows have more than 20 episodes in a season. Is there a way to get all available TV episodes within each season ?

Thanks

(2012-08-09 05:57)ZildjianLudwig Wrote:  Bluecop -

First, you are epic for this plugin.

I'm having a problem whenever I try to export Amazon content to the library on my mac. I get the "Script Failed : plugin.video.amazon" error. My logs show the error below. (It fills up more than the "code" block allows without scrolling. I've removed some blank lines, nothing else.)

I feel like I'm making an obvious mistake. Any suggestions?

Thanks much!

Code:

23:50:10 T:2955980800  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
23:50:10 T:2955980800   ERROR: /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.amazon/resources/lib/common.py:23: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
                                              import sha as sha1
23:50:10 T:2955980800  NOTICE: ['plugin://plugin.video.amazon/', '-1', '?mode="xbmclibrary"&sitemode="EXPORT_MOVIE"&asin="B000KWLRL4"']
23:50:10 T:2955980800  NOTICE: common.args
23:50:10 T:2955980800  NOTICE: {'asin': 'B000KWLRL4', 'sitemode': 'EXPORT_MOVIE', 'mode': 'xbmclibrary'}
23:50:10 T:2955980800  NOTICE:
                                            ====================AMAZON START====================
23:50:10 T:2955980800   ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>
23:50:10 T:2955980800   ERROR: Error Contents: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.amazon/Movies/Clue (1985).strm')
23:50:10 T:2955980800   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.amazon/default.py", line 57, in <module>
                                                modes ( )
                                              File "/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.amazon/default.py", line 55, in modes
                                                exec 'sitemodule.%s()' % common.args.sitemode
                                              File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
                                              File "/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.amazon/resources/lib/xbmclibrary.py", line 98, in EXPORT_MOVIE
                                                SaveFile(strm_file, u, MOVIE_PATH)
                                              File "/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.amazon/resources/lib/xbmclibrary.py", line 32, in SaveFile
                                                file = open(path,'w')
                                            IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.amazon/Movies/Clue (1985).strm')

I'm having this problem too. Otherwise this is an awesome plugin that's getting a lot more use in our home lately -- never realized there is so much great content on there for our kids to watch.