I haven't been able to spend much time on this updated plugin so far hence the lack of updates, but it's still alive. I have PoC code which scrapes the RSS / Atom feed(s) to get the initial "landing page" URL of each video, plus necessary metadata such as what category it's in. I think this includes all the content that's officially on Cinemassacre, over 2,150 videos (mostly) going all the way back to
Halloween party 1991.
From such a landing page, further steps are needed to get to a corresponding stream URL, and there are other complications (caching, updating, the few entries that are something other than a video e.g. MP3's of the "Words Of Power" readings, different video hosts like BlipTV and ScreenWaveMedia depending when something was posted, related edge network GeoIP CDN stuff), but basically this should be able to take the place of the App feed.
(2016-01-01, 18:19)McButton Wrote: This addon was always kinda messed up.
Cinemassacre has some legacy organizational quirks like the fact that
http://cinemassacre.com/category/avgn/avgnepisodes/2013/ covers AVGN episodes
2011 -
2014 inclusive. Since we don't control the site we have to use their layout as-is, so some minor weirdness in this area is to be expected.
(2016-01-01, 18:19)McButton Wrote: I'm surprised more channels don't have Kodi launches.
Yeah, even if you can get the content from hopping around YouTube or suchlike I find the convenience and presentational slickness of a dedicated add-on feel much more like watching a "real" channel somehow. In many cases there probably
was an add-on at some point, but then some site update broke it and it never got updated. As per the above, I'm using the RSS or Atom feed as the content listing source partly because these
should be robust in the face of site changes. Some functionality depends on WordPress, but it's unlikely Cinemassacre will move to something else at this point since it would mean redesigning the whole site.