[RELEASE] TVCatchup.com (Video) Plugin - Live Stream UK Freeview Channels

Works well on latest t3ch build of xbmc, well done.
Nice.

How about : - Add Username & Pass via Plugin settings & on screen keyboard.

at the moment the script displays a list of channels, and when you click a channel a stream file is displayed, so you have to select that file to playback the channel.

would it be possible to click the channel you want, to have it playback imediatley and skip a step of the process?

Hi,

Im using the latest bleeding edge version of Xbmc compiled by T3CH.

When i run the plugin I can see the list of channels but when I select a channel I dont see anything else to select.


This is an extract from the xbmc logfile.
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21:43:54 M: 33714176 NOTICE: -->Python Initialized<--
21:43:54 M: 33714176 NOTICE:
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE: Mode: 1
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE:
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE: URL: http://www.tvcatchup.com/channel/3/
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE:
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE: Name: itv_one
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE:
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE: Get Rtmp
21:43:55 M: 30838784 NOTICE:
21:43:56 M: 29995008 NOTICE:
21:43:56 M: 29995008 NOTICE:
21:44:07 M: 36106240 ERROR: Unable to load: special://home/plugins/video/TVCatchup/resources/settings.xml, Line 0
Failed to open file

I had the same. Tried the bleeding edge t3ch, no joy. Upgraded to the 'nightly build' ... works.

I have 2 questions here

1) I thought Live TV streaming was not currently possible in XBMC? Dink has been trying for a while with iPlayer and the general consensus was something needed fixing in XBMC. A new guy comes along and does it in his first rough plugin? :confused2:

2) TVcatchups name is misleading because it shows Live TV, not things you have missed!

HexusOdy Wrote:I have 2 questions here

1) I thought Live TV streaming was not currently possible in XBMC? Dink has been trying for a while with iPlayer and the general consensus was something needed fixing in XBMC. A new guy comes along and does it in his first rough plugin? :confused2:

2) TVcatchups name is misleading because it shows Live TV, not things you have missed!

agreed but the plugin takes its name from the website it utilizes

rudeboyx Wrote:agreed but the plugin takes its name from the website it utilizes

Sure I understand that, was just messing. I always thought TVcatchup (the website) was like iPlayer for other channels, shame its not!

HexusOdy Wrote:Sure I understand that, was just messing. I always thought TVcatchup (the website) was like iPlayer for other channels, shame its not!

Maybe it will happen sometime.. bbc have been in approached by other uk channels to borrow their iplayer technology.

They updated their website and broke it on xbmc

Hi everyone,

I know this is my first post ever, but I've been following finding a way to get live TV to run via my xbox for a while, and I believe that this project could lead to some interesting developments (xbox as a tv recorder anyone?). I noticed that the script fantaman32 originally provided (thanks!) has now been broken by the latest updates the TVCatchup guys have made to their website, so I looked at the script and have fixed it up again . I don't think this will last too long though as the site seems to be undergoing a few changes!

I couldn't work out how to get the thumbnails for the channels, but the names display properly and it will actually work! There is still the REALLY bad problem that after 4 minutes the streams will crash due to a buffer overflow of some kind though...

Oh, and you'll need to put your username and password in the default.py again

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