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Nice work!
Perhaps you could get on to the xbmc-addons repository to store your code, and allow install from xbmc etc?
Cheers,
Jonathan
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2008-11-22, 13:58
(This post was last modified: 2008-11-22, 14:04 by amadawn.)
Hi!
I just followed your instructions but I can´t get this to work!
I copied the entire plugin folder inside the video plugins folder in the XBMC application support and then I started Plex (which I assume would work as XBMC does, right?).
I went to the Videos tab and I did not see any new entry there. I tried to add a new source but I did not find your plugin there either.
How are you supposed to use or enable the plugin?
Thanks!
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cjedj
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Works great for me, looking forward to seeing how this develops. Thanks a lot!
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cjdej,
thanks a lot for your help. I got it working great now! It seems that I had misplaced the plugin (I had put it in an old XMBC application support folder, rather than in the Plex application support folder).
So thanks! And also thanks to xbmchead. Great job! :-)
If I may make a suggestion, it would be great if the plugin showed a preview of the recorded file (which I believe EyeTV stores in its library along with the actual MPEG file).
Thanks a lot to everyone!
Amadawn
P.S.- Forgive my ignorance, but where can I access the addons repo that you guys mentioned?
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cjedj
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Loving the .tiffs on Plex - thanks a lot.
I'm sorry I can't help with the .nfo's, I have no idea what I'm doing in that area, but I really appreciate your efforts.
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I'm finishing up testing version 1.3 of XBMCEyetvParser and I'll post it in the next few days. I've integrated Nic "midgetspy" Wolfe's Thumbnail Overlay Generator so now your thumbnails will have little 720P 5.1 surround sound badges overlayed on to them on the fly. And let me just say, It's friggin cool.
Because the system requirements are so high I'm thinking about setting it to default this feature off, eventually adding it to the gui settings. Users would have to install the macports imagemagick and ffmpeg, in light of this, what do you all think, default to off, use simple tiff thumbnails, and make advanced users manually edit the default.py, or go whole hog and use try/except and just let it go at it and fail gracefully(sic)? With TOG enabled and working it takes much longer for the first use, but subsequent use is much quicker for existing videos that now have pre-existing .tbn files. Enableing TOG will cause small .tbn jpegs to be created in your .eyetv video packages but will not alter any original files or impact use in eyetv.
Another possibility would be to release this version as a seperate plugin. The original XBMCEyetvParser would continue to be a simple tiff thumbnailed usable video application and this new TOG enabled plugin could become something like EyetvPowerParser. Once again I ask for the community opinion.
I'd like to hear your thoughts.