[RELEASE] 4oD (Video) Addon - UK Channel 4 on demand. v.3.0.12

I will update this post with new versions, to make it easier to find the latest.

When reporting problems ALWAYS include a debug log please.

Quote:In Settings > System > Debugging there is a setting Enable debug logging. This lets you toggle between Normal and Debug w/ visuals on the fly.

Can be installed from the official XBMC repository, my repository addon, or by direct download. New updates will always be available from my own repository and by direct download before being available via the official XBMC repository (v3.0.11).

Repository add-on:
Eden: http://mossy-xbmc-repo.googlecode.com/fi...y.eden.zip
Frodo: http://mossy-xbmc-repo.googlecode.com/fi....frodo.zip

The plugin zip can also be downloaded from here (v2.0.x for Eden, v3.0.x for Frodo):
https://code.google.com/p/mossy-xbmc-rep...loads/list

The plugin uses Channel4's 4oD on PS3 which has a subset of the programmes available through the main 4oD site, e.g. there are 136 documentary and 55 drama programmes on 4oD on PS3 compared with 290 documentary and 115 drama programmes on 4oD.


Access from outside the U.K and Ireland
See wiki.

DNS services: Using a DNS service like Overplay's SmartDNS may prevent the plugin from working (works fine with Unotelly's DirectDNS apparently). If so ask them to add the PS3 version of 4oD ( http://ps3.channel4.com ) to their service. Also it may be possible to configure your device/system to not use the DNS service for ps3.channel4.com.

Change log:
Version 3.0.12 (12 May 2013)
- Tidy up rtmp URL

Version 3.0.11 (01 May 2013)
- Fix 'Error getting category web page'

Version 3.0.10 (28 Mar 2013)
- Option to use port 443 for RTMP streams

Version 3.0.9 (16 Mar 2013)
- Prevent potential divide-by-zero problem when "Show Watched" is on.

Version 3.0.8 (15 Mar 2013)
- Fix downloads

Version 3.0.7 (04 Mar 2013)
- Added option to get streams via proxy
- Added "Show Watched" option. Turn on automatic watch in plugin settings. Manually toggle watched status via context menu
- Fixed subtitles
- Improved progress dialog

Version 3.0.6 (04 Mar 2013)
- Moved repository

Nice one mate, will check it out!

(2012-06-16 14:16)Mossy Wrote:  I will update this post with new versions, to make it easier to find the latest.

When reporting problems ALWAYS include a debug log please.

Quote:In Settings > System > Debugging there is a setting Enable debug logging. This lets you toggle between Normal and Debug w/ visuals on the fly.

Repository add-on:
http://mossy-xbmc-repo.googlecode.com/fi....mossy.zip

The latest plugin zip can be downloaded from here:
https://code.google.com/p/mossy-xbmc-rep...loads/list


Change log:


Version 1.0.4 (16 June 2012)

- Added experimental proxy support, HTTP,SOCK4/5, including authentication. Needs further testing. (Thanks to dlake02 for suggesting socksipy)

- Added subtitle support. Off by default, change in settings

- Added "Now Playing" media info

- Added HTTP cache disable option in settings

- (John Taylor) Added gzip handling. Occassionally web pages are downloaded compressed. This fix handles those occassions.

- Improved error handling

- Bug fix: Latest/Most Popular/A-Z/etc. Thumbnails coming up blank

- Bug fix: Prevent caching of 0-byte pages or 404 error pages.

- Bug fix: Orphaned processes in Linux, one for each downloaded episode, causing delays in shutting down XBMC.

- Bug fix: Instant "Download Finished" notification but no download in Windows. Should now download.

- Bug fix: Shows with no series and episodes numbers did not have unique default download filenames.

Did a very quick test on windows xp


subtitle support works a treat.
"Now Playing" media info is a nice addition
Latest/Most Popular/A-Z/etc. Thumbnails show ok
Instant "Download Finished" notification showed up fine, the download feature worked a treat after updating rtmp
I don't req a proxy so didn't look at that.
Is HTTP cache disable option in settings just for space saving?

I will check this release (v1.0.4) out on my linux box later
Keep up the good work, do you plan on adding a fanart?.

Thanks

John

"HTTP cache disable" is just for getting the web pages directly each time, for whatever reason. It's not going to save a significant amount of space. Could be useful, for example, if there's a problem listing the episodes of a show because of a problem with the cached version of a web page.

I wasn't going to add a fanart image, but I could.

... and thanks for the feedback.

Hi mossy

here is the fanart that I currently use, but I keep having to reassigning the fanart after an update, so it would be nice to have it all together

Checked v1.0.4 release out also on xbmcbuntu, and is working great no problems so far

Thanks.

Version 1.0.5 released, see first post

http://pastebin.com/CuS82yYb Hi Mossy here is the log for my windows pc it will not start the stream. Thank you

Can you confirm that other video plugins still work, e.g. iplayer?

If so then do versions 1.0.4 or 1.0.3 (of the 4od plugin) still work?

IPlayer works but I had to select limelight as the stream source. I have tried each one I have also tried to delete the filea in user/appdata/roaming/xbmc/ addons and in userdata just in case so it was a fresh install.