[WIP] RSS-Alternative: audio with resume support
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Hey folks,

I have a podcast in rss format with pretty long entries. I hated the way that audio doesn't remember where I left off the same way that video does, so I wrote a plugin.

Feel free to check it out at https://github.com/squisher/xbmc-rssalternative.

I have only tested it with the one stream I care about, so YMMV -- let me know if there are issues.

Also, I attempted to use a xbmcgui.Dialog().select() just before playing the audio, but that got me into trouble: I think what happens is that the audio starts playing, the dialog closes and xbmc tries to query my plugin for the listing again. But the plugin doesn't respond because it is busy playing the audio. See the dialog branch for the code. Any help with that would be appreciated.
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#2
(2013-10-29, 21:43)squisher Wrote: Also, I attempted to use a xbmcgui.Dialog().select() just before playing the audio, but that got me into trouble: I think what happens is that the audio starts playing, the dialog closes and xbmc tries to query my plugin for the listing again. But the plugin doesn't respond because it is busy playing the audio. See the dialog branch for the code. Any help with that would be appreciated.

Fixed that: I am now launching the audio output using RunScript(). That frees up the GUI thread again, the "Waiting" disappears, and the GUI thread is available for business.

Anyway, testers are welcome Big Grin
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#3
A quick update: I fixed the problem that a xbmc stopped shortly after starting to play a new stream.

I think the plugin is very usable now (I also tested with a second feed).

Sources at github (see above), download: http://de.mcbf.net/%7Esquisher/xbmc-rssa...-0.3.0.zip
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