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By the way, I quote from qss forums:
"That's because the download links change after time. There's no way you'll be able to keep movies streaming with the same URL as the time stamp on the URL constantly changes"
... which isn´t too good for playlists.
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Thanks. But to be honest, many of this links won´t work. As I posted the quote: flyupload seems to slightly change the links, what makes them pretty short-term.
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Ok, as hew97 stated the links change after awhile. So for this to work I would have to constantly update the playlist far to much to make it possible. Also some that still worked today in VLC won't play in XBMC (Navi-X or .pls file on HDD) I get "Error, playlist playback aborted. Too many consecutive failed items."
If you know of any high quality video storage sites that don't change the links after time and you can stream them. Please let me know.
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8BitBrad, thanks at least for trying.
I have a remaining question about FlyUpload. How does FlyUpload allows you to share a file if the link constantly changes? There must be a fixed factor in this concept.
If the user gets access to the file via a HTML page which contains the (changing) link to the file, then it should be possible to write a HTML parser to grab the link (assuming the link is hard coded and no Java is used for this). In this case we should not share the link to the file but the link to the HTML page.
Is this a working solution? Anyone?
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Great find,
Now only to find a site that has DivxVine links. I'll see what I can find.
Also, you don't have to use Downloadhelper addon for Firefox to get the Vid link. The link is already in the "Embed" box below the video.
ex. <param name="src" value="http://www.divxvine.com/uploads/00000/W34LHSPDMHQJ" />
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You´re right, finding those movies is not the easiest task. Divxvine is a pretty new site, so I guess there aren´t many movies so far.
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I already have seen some Youtube videos in 480x360 using Navi-X. But I did not have to change Navi-X for this. Most videos are still in 320x240 (QVGA) but some are in 480x360 (I watched some 'HD' movie trailers).
I will have a look if all videos can be switches to higher resolution.
I also noticed that XBMC was not able to stream these higher resolution videos without pausing (buffering) a number of times. I used MPlayer in this case (DVDPlayer did not play these files at all). I think is was not a bandwidth problem but more a lack of CPU power to stream these files.
In general I think that FLV video playback in XBMC is something that needs attention. Hopefully the codec handling flv files can be further improved.
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@rodejo: It would be great, if you could implement the Megavideo movies from Quicksilverscreen.com. If I try to play them via a playlist, it won´t work. Thanks.