[RELEASE] CTV Properties (CTV/TSN/Comedy/Discovery/etc)

Glad its working out for you. I can't take credit for the auto-updating, all XBMC Plugins do that when they're installed from a repository.

I reversed the 'rtmp' vs 'rtmpe' setting on CTV Based channels, so yeah, most of those which are marked [Bad] should actually be fairly good now, and the context menu entry still exists to toggle the setting for troublesome streams.

Are the issues you're having just clips that fail to play? and if so, are they all on [Bad] channels?

SimonMTL Wrote:The plugin actually auto-updates itself?!? I'm quite impressed!

Anyway, it works a lot better, as all channels requiring RTMP indicate [BAD] and self-modify to play. Still having a few issues, but overall it's a great experience, not having to open the contextual menu.

This plugin works great on AppleTV 2's XBMC!!! What a great 99$ box this has turned out to be!

andre_pl Wrote:Are the issues you're having just clips that fail to play? and if so, are they all on [Bad] channels?

I tried to play Comedy Network in directory Roasts, the Donald Trump one. Wouldn't play. Yet the Highlights would. Also had trouble with MuchMusic.

Most other stuff (CTV News, Criminal Minds, Daily Show) worked like a charm. GlobalTV works great also.

The development of this add-on is progressing like wildfire. The new additions are unbelievable, thanks again to everyone working at this (I really wish I had any programming skills to help out). Having local news is awesome.

Just a question, I noticed that in 0.1.9 Muchmusic is no longer part of the plugin. Is this temporary or permanent? (assuming likely removed due to conflicts with other new channels added?). Would love to see it return.

Also, a quick thought for a feature, should Muchmusic return, would it be viable or even possible to add a shuffle function to the music videos to provide a video jukebox type experience? (I would gather this would be only a dream until such time as playlists as discussed above are implemented so that a 'random' playlist could be generated.)

Thanks again, and keep up the good work. XBMC is quickly becoming a viable cable alternative for Canadians as a result of your efforts. As always much appreciated.

jasni Wrote:Just a question, I noticed that in 0.1.9 Muchmusic is no longer part of the plugin. Is this temporary or permanent? (assuming likely removed due to conflicts with other new channels added?). Would love to see it return.

There's a setting to show broken channels now. Much is broken because the videos there require rtmpe. XBMC's rtmpe doesn't support handshake type 9 and the edgefcs.net servers (which the CTV channels -- Much is one -- require). You can enable it in the settings, but I doubt you'll find much (if anything) on Much Music that plays.

jasni Wrote:Also, a quick thought for a feature, should Muchmusic return, would it be viable or even possible to add a shuffle function to the music videos to provide a video jukebox type experience? (I would gather this would be only a dream until such time as playlists as discussed above are implemented so that a 'random' playlist could be generated.)

That would require XBMC fixing their queueing bug (the same bug preventing automatically playing multipart streams back-to-back). After that, making a random playlist shouldn't be difficult.

-Dan

SimonMTL Wrote:I tried to play Comedy Network in directory Roasts, the Donald Trump one. Wouldn't play. Yet the Highlights would. Also had trouble with MuchMusic.

Most other stuff (CTV News, Criminal Minds, Daily Show) worked like a charm. GlobalTV works great also.

Some of the stuff on Comedy requires rtmpe. Then we run in to the handshake type=9 problem. For those things, we have to wait for the rtmpdump/librtmp team to add support for the new handshake and then for it to be imported in to xbmc. For now, the best we can do is flag the channel (and maybe flag the videos that aren't likely to play properly).

-Dan

Can I just say... THANK YOU!!!

This works incredibly well and I don't think I'll ever turn my cable back on, ever, again. This addon changes everything. Absolutely amazing!

The CTV Properties plugin is now officially deprecated and Canada On Demand has its own thread here. Please switch to the new plugin if you haven't already, and direct all inquiries to the new thread.