[w3__]

http://fora.tv/

This is an AWESOME thing for those who are interested in talks and lectures.

I feel like I've posted this request before but i couldn't find it with the search tool... Apologies if I've now double-posted the request.

-W

[JackieBrown]

It was a while ago

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35715

[rev.]

What would be necessary to make this possible?

[Jeffff]

I'd like to add a request for this. I love watching Fora, and it would be great to have it on xbmc.

I'm not sure if helps any potential contributor, but I see boxee have a fora.tv app.

Thanks

[queeup]

Hmm I can make it for you guys. They have good RSS sources.

Edit: opsss speak too soon. Need account and authentication for download.. Hmm let me see.

[queeup]

Full lectures list on RSS:
Economy : http://fora.tv/RSS/fora_rss_topic?topic_id=1
Environment : http://fora.tv/RSS/fora_rss_topic?topic_id=2
Politics : http://fora.tv/RSS/fora_rss_topic?topic_id=3
Science : http://fora.tv/RSS/fora_rss_topic?topic_id=4
Technology : http://fora.tv/RSS/fora_rss_topic?topic_id=5
Culture :http://fora.tv/RSS/fora_rss_topic?topic_id=6

Example Video File URL:
http://fora.tv/fora/fora_download?cid=9761&fid=25296

You can grab "cid=" numbers from lecture link.

PHP Code:

url = urllib.urlopen('http://fora.tv/2009/08/06/MythBusters_Just_the_Facts').read() 
cid = re.findall('var full_program_clipid = (.+?);', url)[0] 


I can't figure out how can I get "fid=" numbers.

[Jeffff]

Thanks ever so much for taking a look at this

I'm not sure if you noticed when checking, but they don't provide a download link for all videos. For example:
http://fora.tv/2006/04/20/Among_the_Dead_Cities

Not sure if those videos use the same style of download link or have a different format.

[xbmcfan1]

I know its not a true solution but could a work around be implemented by iterating through the fid numbers and retrieving the file names from http://fora.tv/fora/fora_download?cid=11078&fid=1 I've noticed that the fid=1 returns 2006-09-18_Constitutional_Issues_After_911_384kbps_CSPAN.flv and fid=2 returns the next file and so on. Even without the correspond info pages, just having a list of flv filenames to fid numbers created this way might allow somebody to watch the videos.

If a more descriptive database is desired iterating through the cids like http://fora.tv/fora/fora_player_full?cid=11078 where it list the file name in the info return and then it can be cross referencing it with the corresponding file from the fid list.