Request for help and Call to Arms: TV streaming on the Xbox threatened

Gentlemen, Ladies, Users of the xbox,

It is a woeful news indeed that stage6 has closed. This leaves streaming of tv-programmes and movies from online on the xbox a glorious thing we <i>used</i> to be able to do.

stage6 was what powered the two remaining working tv-sreaming plugins.

DivxLive and Joox.

Xbox tv-streaming is now, to the best of my knowlege, gone. There are sites out there, and, I hope that it is within the abillity of the community to make them work.

I'm starting this thread to request the help of the many great programmers in our community to solving this problem. And to ask if there is any way the masses of us who can't actually code python well enough can help.

Here is my personal collection of sites like this:

http://www.surfthechannel.com
http://www.powerflv.com
http://www.sidereel.com
http://www.tv-links.cc
http://www.peekvid.com

Could anyone else who knows any other good sites append them here to help community members who may be willing and capable of writing the plugins/scripts to scrape these sites.

I'll add any more I can think of as they occur to me. Remember folks that Stage6 based ones will nolonger work!

Lets beat this problem people!

for some wacky reason powerflv.com doesn't like 'www.' so please use http://powerflv.com instead

I'm having a go at fixing powerflv now. It seems to just be a change in page structure which broke the plugin, and I have it mostly working. Can't test right now as I don't have access to an Xbox.

http://fools.bigbudden.com/nickspoon/PowerFLV.zip

Fixed version of the PowerFLV plugin, will list all videos and play some of them.

Thanks bro.

Loks like tdou is definately working from the PowerFLV plugin now :-D (though their servers are always woefully slow!). Stage5 obiously won't and I culdn't get the few veoh links to work (probably they'd only be five minute prviews even if they worked :-) )...megavideo doesn't seem to be working.

S6 also lks like it's working as well.

Thanks for yur hard work Nickspoon! I should be able to find some things to watch now :-D (if only we culd crack the VeohTV problem as there's loads of veoh links that probably won't show more than 5 min previews even if we managed to link the videos themselves....

Cheers Bro!

Anyone able to revive any of the other scripts from the dead? surfthechannel?

Also is there any way that I can help with http://www.tv-links.cc given I know extremely little python. I previously identified some expressions around the category listings in a different post don't know if that will help folks ;-) think it's the Tv-links is back post.

The XOT script has support for http://www.quicksilverscreen.com which also holds a lot of media. XOT 3.0.1 is coming soon, which will extent the support for the site even further. So check it out on http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/

@Basje: No, it doesn´t support quicksilverscreen AT ALL. Because they switched to Veoh, Megavideo etc. So the quicksilverscreen channel in your script is empty all the time.

hew97 Wrote:@Basje: No, it doesn´t support quicksilverscreen AT ALL. Because they switched to Veoh, Megavideo etc. So the quicksilverscreen channel in your script is empty all the time.

Yes it does. Like I said in 3.0.1, I just coded it. Megavideo is working like a charm and veoh.com is almost finished! Googlevideo is finished, I just need some time to clean things up and then I will release it.

Sounds reasonably good... can´t wait. Thanks.

http://www.cucirca.com/ for prison break, lost, heroes and some others.