[REL] PleXBMC

hippojay · 2011-08-15 22:22

tvont - thanks for the kind words.

hippojay · 2011-08-15 22:22

Bugfix v1.9.6.2

To address the context menu and menu looping for "unwatched" filter menu.
Also checked and removed a few other XML data workaround I put in place (as Plex has fixed them)

https://github.com/downloads/hippojay/pl....9.6.1.zip

I've also put these changes in to the EDEN only version of the plugin. This version also has numerous other changes/fixes that I have made for EDEN. No new functions though.

For XBMC nightlies only:
https://github.com/downloads/hippojay/pl...-EDEN2.zip

bluepassat · 2011-08-16 12:08

Hi all can anyone help

i have installed plex media manager on my windows 7 pc, added and scanned all my movies

i have a apple tv 1st gen 160gb with atvflash xbmc all up and running but want to add plex so i can get 40d and bbc iplayer, sky go and any other plugin/scripts you cant get with xbmc

i managed to get it sort of working and installed however i can see programs in all the lists but they wont play Confused

?? only about 2 plugins will work imovies etc

any ideas Confused

btw my movies from my pc stream perfect

its just most of the plugins i think its somethink to do with transcoding Confused

hippojay · 2011-08-18 01:29

bluepassat Wrote:i have a apple tv 1st gen 160gb with atvflash xbmc all up and running but want to add plex so i can get 40d and bbc iplayer, sky go and any other plugin/scripts you cant get with xbmc

its just most of the plugins i think its somethink to do with transcoding

Transcoding is forced for playback of certain Plex Plugins - 4od, bbc and sky beings ones that are.

All flash/silverlight plugins need transcoding as the Plex Devs built a new player (and playlist control) to allow playback within the Plex Client. I can't build that for XBMC (it wouldn't get accepted, and for some good reasons), so the workaround is to transcode these type of plugins..

Now I don;t know about atvflash, but to accept transcoded streams in a 10/10.1 build, you need to utilise the proxy functions - and I don;t know how that will work on the atv.

Simply put, go into the plugin settings, and select "1.5mbps 480p". Ensure that m3u8 is selected and that the proxy is also enabled. Default port should be ok.

Now, starting a plugin should work, although it may take some time to buffer up. You could also try increasing the quality setting. If you have problems, post up a log and I'll have a look.

Bare in mind though, that the transcoding on a 10.1 build is experimental and that the best experience can be had using a nightly build as this has transcoding playback build in. However a nightly build might not suit your other XBMC needs.

bluepassat · 2011-08-18 11:51

Hi thanks for the info.....i have changed the setting, however most of the good plugins 4od, bbciplayer, blinkbox, sky, history etc still dont play

i have got about 6 plugins to play liker nasa, carpool, fxguide, imovies etc

i can see all the programs in the lists of the plugins however when i select the one i want to watch it says working........then item failed to play :confused2:

Bruut · 2011-08-19 11:49

Firstly; Thanks for the amazing plugin, works perfectly!

Almost..

I'm trying to set up a portable version of XBMC (-p switch) on a usb drive. I used a fresh install and installed plexbmc while in portable mode. Installed fine, I configured my settings. However when I try to run it I get a little popup saying plugin error and nothing would load.

Log file:

Code:

13:50:33 T:3768 M:1148002304   ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.NameError

13:50:33 T:3768 M:1148002304   ERROR: Error Contents: global name 'etree' is not defined

13:50:33 T:3768 M:1147998208   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "U:\XBMC\portable_data\addons\plugin.video.plexbmc\default.py", line 3554, in ?

                                                ROOT(url)

                                              File "U:\XBMC\portable_data\addons\plugin.video.plexbmc\default.py", line 494, in ROOT

                                                tree = etree.fromstring(html)

                                            NameError: global name 'etree' is not defined

I'm no python expert but I think the above is the relevant part of the log. I checked with a working version (non portable) and there is no etree problem there.
Again, I'm no python expert so if you need the full log just ask.

Hope you can help.

berserk · 2011-08-20 20:05

First of all, thanks for the plugin. It really has brightened my week Smile

Unfortunately I have a couple of problems:

When the playback of file is finished the player automatically continues with the next one. If it is a movie it starts to play the next movie in the library, if it is a tv show it starts to play the next episode. This was not the case before the plugin. And when it does this and I stop the playback, the actual file I have watched is not marked as watched. If I want to rewatch it, XBMC asks me to start from the position I have stopped the next movie. I guess that is the reason it is not marked as watched, it thinks of it as a big stream. However, if I stop watching a movie at its end (like 30 seconds before its end), it is marked as watched.
There seems to be a problem with the library update. It fetches data from PMS at startup. However even if I ask PleXBMC to update the library from the context menu (in movies section for instance), it pops up a message about start of the operation but I do not see newly added files.
This last one may or may not be related to the plugin. I use Aeon Nox.PleXBMC skin, the modified version. In TV Shows, I set to use the InfoWall viewtype in a season folder. However any other season folder uses the default one. Before the plugin I was using normal Aeon Nox and this was not the case. Is there a way to do this?

My XBMC is 10.1 Dharma, setup by using the Live CD, running on a Atom N300 with ION chipset. The PMS is setup on a QNAP NAS box with the media files in the same box. If any debugging is needed, wit the right pointers I can do it myself. I am not very good with Python (just used it to write a couple of daemons for my NAS) but I believe I can be of help.

PS: It is just me or PMS is actually a little strange for a media server acronym?

hippojay · 2011-08-20 22:52

bluepassat Wrote:i can see all the programs in the lists of the plugins however when i select the one i want to watch it says working........then item failed to play :confused2:

If you could turn on debug mode in the Plexbmc addon and then send me the xbmc.log file I'll have a look for you.

Bruut Wrote:I'm trying to set up a portable version of XBMC (-p switch) on a usb drive. I used a fresh install and installed plexbmc while in portable mode. Installed fine, I configured my settings. However when I try to run it I get a little popup saying plugin error and nothing would load.

Looks like it hasn't imported the required ElementTree modules. The script will try and number of different ways to do this (built-in, XBMC supplier or script supplied) - so it looks like one of these has failed. If you turn on debug in the PleXBMC addon (look in the addon settings) the xbmc.log file should show the version of python and the elementtree module being used. This might help locate the problem.

berserk Wrote:First of all, thanks for the plugin. It really has brightened my week Unfortunately I have a couple of problems:
1. When the playback of file is finished the player automatically continues with the next one.

Yeah, this is a problem with XBMC 10.1 and fixed in XBMC pre-EDEN. TO turn off auto next play for video, you need to go into XBMC settings -> music and turn off "automatically play next track". However this does mean that you can inly play single tracks in music. Unfortunately this is the only way (unless you move to a nightly build)

Quote:2. There seems to be a problem with the library update. It fetches data from PMS at startup. However even if I ask PleXBMC to update the library from the context menu (in movies section for instance), it pops up a message about start of the operation but I do not see newly added files.

This function kicks off as library update, but doesn't automatically refresh the data being displayed. The reason I don't is that there is no (easy) way to determine if the refresh has finished (or if not, how long it's going to take) - and therefore no way to signal back and update the listings. At best it allow you to signal for a refresh and then you will have to keep going in and out of the section to get updated data.

Quote:This last one may or may not be related to the plugin. I use Aeon Nox.PleXBMC skin, the modified version. In TV Shows, I set to use the InfoWall viewtype in a season folder. However any other season folder uses the default one. Before the plugin I was using normal Aeon Nox and this was not the case. Is there a way to do this?

So you set season to infoview and then when you go into a different season it's set back to default. The views are saved in the XBMC db, so I wonder if it is recording something slighty different for addons?

Quote:PS: It is just me or PMS is actually a little strange for a media server acronym?

yep

berserk · 2011-08-21 09:51

hippojay Wrote:This function kicks off as library update, but doesn't automatically refresh the data being displayed. The reason I don't is that there is no (easy) way to determine if the refresh has finished (or if not, how long it's going to take) - and therefore no way to signal back and update the listings. At best it allow you to signal for a refresh and then you will have to keep going in and out of the section to get updated data.
yep

Thanks for the answers. And about library updates, I thought it was about updating the PleXBMC library, I mean what it shows on Movies section for instance. From what I read above, however, I guess it sends an update request to PMS, causing it to start a library refresh operation. My problem is then unrelated to this. My PMS does its updates automatically. I use the "Update my library when changes to my folders are detected" setting. When XBMC starts and I enter the Movies section for the first time, PleXBMC connects the PMS and gets a movie list. But then that list keeps the same, I cannot get PleXBMC to obtain the new list from PMS. The only way is a restart of XBMC. Is there a way to do this?

hippojay · 2011-08-21 10:02

Ok - I understand. XBMC sometimes caches views and this includes the listing data. I've only seen this when using an xbmc menu entry that takes you back to where you were - rather than accessing the plugin directly.

Is this with the aeon-noc.plexbmc skin? If so I'll check it out.

Alternatively I can create a context menu item that would force a Listing refresh - very straightforward to do.

hippojay Fan Posts: 301 Joined: Mar 2008 Reputation: 13 Location: Sheffield, UK	2011-08-15 22:22 Post: #101 tvont - thanks for the kind words.
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