Video Devil plugin status?

ty

Thnx for the updates

I'm running the latest XBMC from svn on Linux, and I'm unable to get anything decent out of the plugins.

First off there is a problem with both VideoDevil and VideoMonkey assuming that the current directory is ~/.xbmc/plugins/video/VideoMonkey (or VideoDevil). This is basically never true, so the plugins normally fail to even start.

Starting xbmc in the correct directory makes that plugin work, but I can of course not be in two directories at once so only one plugin is usable.

Even when I do that hack, I don't get anything decent from the sources. Searching results in things like this:

21:58:32 T:139678154053824 M:1868312576 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://video/VideoDevil/?url=title: Search &type:search&icon:/home/xbmc/.xbmc/plugins/video/VideoDevil/resources/images/search.png&genre:YouPorn&director:VideoDevil&cfg:youporn.com.cfg&url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youporn.com%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3D%25s

Help

Poking around in the code, the first problem is fairly obvious:

rootDir = os.getcwd()

Not good. I'm not sure what the proper way to do this is, but sys.argv[0] contains the "xbmc path" to the script, i.e. "plugin://video/VideoDevil/". Doing xbmc.translatePath() on that gives "special://home/plugins/video/VideoDevil/" and doing it again gives "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/plugins/video/VideoDevil/" which is finally something that can be used.

No idea about the second problem though...

Second problem was me being clumsy. I had the wrong permissions on the directory so the plugin couldn't write anything:

So adding these lines at the beginning of the scripts solves it for me:

rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(sys.argv[0])
rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(rootDir)

Hopefully that can lead you to a more proper solution.

ossman Wrote:Second problem was me being clumsy. I had the wrong permissions on the directory so the plugin couldn't write anything:

So adding these lines at the beginning of the scripts solves it for me:

rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(sys.argv[0])
rootDir = xbmc.translatePath(rootDir)

Hopefully that can lead you to a more proper solution.

can anyone confirm that?

greets

Meh. Now even that code won't work. translatePath() no longer does anything useful.

I've added this to the top of the python file:

print os.getcwd(), sys.argv[0], xbmc.translatePath(sys.argv[0])

And the result is:

22:09:38 T:140168698771216 M:1761513472 NOTICE: /home/xbmc
22:09:38 T:140168698771216 M:1761513472 NOTICE: plugin://video/VideoDevil/
22:09:38 T:140168698771216 M:1761513472 NOTICE: plugin://video/VideoDevil/

Not exactly useful. :/

Anything new on this?

dtviewer Wrote:Anything new on this?

on what?
you have the same prob as ossman?

running good on my xbox and windows build...


greets

Have you done any testing with the LiveCD?

I saw somewhere on the forum that cwd does differ between platforms. I don't know if this is considered a bug or if plugins simply shouldn't rely on this to determine their base directory.