[REQUEST] TVNZ OnDemand Video Plugin - Watch New Zealand Television?

Hi all,

This plugin would only be good for kiwi's really... but my gf would love me if someone made a plugin so she could watch her Shortland Street episodes.

the website is :http://tvnzondemand.co.nz/

I could have a go, i just see it uses Flash for videos and don't know how to get the video link from the html code...

object data="http://images.tvnz.co.nz/on_demand/images/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="265" width="320" name="player" id="player"><param value="http://images.tvnz.co.nz/on_demand/images/player.swf" name="movie"><param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"><param value="true" name="swLiveConnect"><param value="duration=3145&amp;cid=1432121&amp;title=red_bull_air_race_ep7&amp;previewURL=&amp;chapterURLs=http://download.tvnzondemand.co.nz/download/store1/flash/2007/shows/redbullairrace_2007_ep8_sm945752_part1.flv;http://download.tvnzondemand.co.nz/download/store1/flash/2007/shows/redbullairrace_2007_ep8_sm945752_part2.flv;http://download.tvnzondemand.co.nz/download/store1/flash/2007/shows/redbullairrace_2007_ep8_sm945752_part3.flv;http://download.tvnzondemand.co.nz/download/store1/flash/2007/shows/redbullairrace_2007_ep8_sm945752_part4.flv;http://download.tvnzondemand.co.nz/download/store1/flash/2007/shows/redbullairrace_2007_ep8_sm945752_part5.flv&amp;CG=ondemand-channel-one-distributor-img-genre-sport-international-series-redbullairrace2007-episode-redbullairraceep7&amp;co=nz" name="flashVars">

ahhahah, looks promising :-P

I may attempt myself... i hope XBMC can play flash vids

Yup, it can! woot! will have this plugin shortly!
it will be my first plugin so will see how it goes

Had any success with this?

I see there are also XML feeds galore...

http://tvnzondemand.co.nz/search/atom_sk...&l=150&s=d

http://tvnzondemand.co.nz/content/eml_se..._skin.atom

Series XML is wrapped in <div id="video_feature_rss"> on each show's page

The more I look at it, the more difficult it becomes - most videos aren't in the simple progessive form as above, most are streamed directly from the server by the SWF player - not an HTTP request at all.

I guess wifey can't watch Shortland St on the Xbox.

Any chance of this plugin happening? or it too messy? It would be a great way to avoid more freeview satelite dishes

I was looking at this, are there any higher def streams available?

If someone can explain how the value clauses are ordered in the following code, I can get to work on constructing a simple browser for this. A complete novice at Python, borrowed this section from the Joox script.

Have no problem specifying the mfind statement itself, its the ordered syntax that follows "value = m[index4+3:index6]" Or perhaps there is a better solution to scrape the episodes ?


#fill the title

index1 = m.find('href="./cat')

index2 = m.find('href="./id')

index3 = m.find('</a><br')

index4 = m.find('id/')

index5 = m.find('">')

index6 = m.find('"',index4)

if index1 != -1 or index2 != -1:

if index3 != -1:

tmp = CMediaItem() #create new item

tmp.id = counter



if index4 != -1:

#value = m[index4+3:index5]

value = m[index4+3:index6]

tmp.URL = 'http://video.stage6.com/' + value + '/.divx'



value = m[index5+2:index3]

tmp.name = value



counter = counter + 1

tmp.type = 'video'



else:

value = m[index1+7:index5]

tmp.URL = 'http://joox.net' + value



value = m[index5+2:index3]

tmp.name = value



counter = counter + 1

tmp.type = 'html_body-sidebar'



self.list.append(tmp)

counter = counter + 1

elif counter > 1:

index = m.find('</div>')

if index != -1:

return 0 #we are done



return 0

value = m[index4+3:index6]

grabs everything after id/ (3 characters after the position pointed to by index4, which is the start of id/) up to index6, which is the first " after index4.

In this case it looks like it's grabbing from something that looks like this:

href="http://some.url/here/id/this_is_what_we_want"

index4 will point to the offset of id
index6 will be that last quote
and it'll extract this_is_what_we_want

Cheers,
Jonathan