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i like your edits :-) i'll be sure to include them in future iterations of the script once i can think of something truely compelling to add. the above link should work again.
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tried it last night - works great for me.
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ohhh i get what you are trying to do. so you want the list control to have big entries with a preview picture on the left and the title/date description and whatnot on the right.
the only way i know of to get the picture is to wait after opening the video and take a screenshot... i suppose you would also want to use an image library for converting it to png / scaling it to a more reasonable resolution. im not sure how great/useful that would look though... i mean who needs a picture preview for a video they've already seen?
ohh and i think you want "date" not "data".
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doesn't seem to be working anymore, can't connect.
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the 'now in the news feature' still works but the rest got broken...
for some reason cnn changed its behavior and the stuff i do to find the real url doesnt seem to work that way anymore... cnn has done this once before and it only lasted for a day and hopefully it will go back to the way it was before. but in the mean time i will try to figure out an alternative path for when it is behaving unfriendly.
edit: hmmmm it looks like it might have something to do with skipping the ad.... they might check that now to see whether you accessed it before the story?
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well its working again.... man it's so hard to adjust for what cnn does on sunday afternoons.... how am i supposed to develop for that? next time it happens i need to sit down more and figure it out.
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the cnn script had been working excellently, but in recent weeks has not been able to play the videos.
the selections lists are downloaded. when selecting a video to view, the dialog says that the video is downloaded, then nothing happens...
i just am returned to the cnn video selection list.
anyone else having the same experience?
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had this problem with many videos using releases prior to may 28th.
which build are you running?
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will look into this soon. need to update the thing anyway to look nicer in mc360. it seems that some videos only work if you click them twice? maybe cnn is expected me to show a commercial the first time? nitn looks broken too, i wonder how many people use that (its annoying to parse since it is updated differently than the rest).