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2.0.8 works fine on xbian-RC3 on Rpi
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I tested this latest release thoroughly on Frodo RC3 and Eden "Stable". Please let me know if there are any issues.
Version 3.0.10/2.0.10
- Fixed index error when loading directories
- Fixed redirect_url errors
- Added better support for PBS URS protected links
- Removed Requests dependency
Version 3.0.9/2.0.9
- Version bump for Frodo
- Fixed 'listitem' is not defined error
- Fixed play back error in rtmp steams
- Added setting for preferred video quality (720p on Frodo only)
- Added setting for default view in Confluence skin
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Fantastic! I'll have to check it out. This is one of my favorite add-ons, by the way. Thanks for providing this add-on and keeping it updated.
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Stacked - Any chance you can add WordWorld to the PBS Kids list?
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The updates has been pushed to the xbmc repo. If you have the addon installed, it should update automatically.
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I'm new to XBMC, but I love this plugin. At first it worked great, but about a week ago, the video began to be very choppy - like 4-5 FPS. This happened across multiple videos (Sid the Science Kid, Clifford, and other adult shows), all of which play fine through a browser. I've rebooted several times to no avail. I also tried playing with advancedsettings to bump up the cachemembuffer without success. Any idea what could be causing this?
PBS plugin 3.0.10
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Awesome, that worked. Thanks!
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2013-02-16, 04:12
(This post was last modified: 2013-02-16, 04:13 by passat25.)
Great plugin!... Didn't have any issues... My internet connection is probably fast enough to handle more than 800k... Video quality looks more like 480p... Not bad at all
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I just wanted to give everyone the heads up that some topics and programs may return the following error "HTTP Error 400: BAD REQUEST". PBS is currently working on fixing this issue. I'm also planning on the updating the add-on to help prevent this error from occurring.
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Hi there,
Firstly, thanks so much for the fantastic addon. I'm currently living in Australia, and I love being able to enjoy the PBS content all the way over here.
Unfortunately I'm having an issue with playback. Obviously, because of network congestion, I often get the "buffering" message, sometimes 20 times in a 20 min playback, which essentially makes it impossible to watch.
I thought that, much like YouTube, if I paused playback then the system would continue downloading and after a few minutes I could start playback and watch it uninterrupted. This does not seem to happen at all.
Forum searches seemed to suggest that I needed to create the "advancedsettings.xml" file and add the "cachemembuffersize" option.
I have created the "advancedsettings.xml" file in the correct place (~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml) and it is as follows:
<advancedsettings>
<network>
<autodetectpingtime>45</autodetectpingtime>
<curlclienttimeout>90</curlclienttimeout>
<curllowspeedtime>10</curllowspeedtime>
<cachemembuffersize>524288000</cachemembuffersize>
</network>
</advancedsettings>
The xbmc.log file shows that it finds and loads the advancedsettings.log file.
The problem is that the changed settings seem to have no affect at all. The machine has 4GB of RAM, but the used RAM never increases above about 750MB (same as before settings change), no matter how long I pause playback for, and playback remains just as bad.
So my questions are:
1) Does the PBS addon continue to download whilst playback is paused?
2) If so, does the above cache setting control this?
3) Is there any way to reduce the streaming playback quality below the lowest (800k) currently available in settings to allow for the lower network bandwidth?
Many thanks in advance for your help,
Lachlan.