[REQUEST] myLifetime.com (Lifetime Entertainment Services Network) Plugin or Script?
#1
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There are a few shows on Lifetime that my wife would like to watch (notably, Drop Dead Diva). Has anyone created a plugin for mylifetime.com content? If not I'll try to create one myself.
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#2
I haven't seen any evidence of anyone working on one here on the forums, in the svn repo, etc. Not surprising considering it's probably out of the normal demographic for xbmc users.

Give it a go!
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#3
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Okay, I know what I'm asking for here, but, any added XBMC content is good content, right?

I would like any input pertaining to the development of an addon or script that would scrape? (I'm not sure I'm using the right terminology) lifetimenetwork.com. If someone could point me in the right direction as to where to begin with this project it, my fiance would thank you. Big Grin
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#4
cyberfiche Wrote:There are a few shows on Lifetime that my wife would like to watch (notably, Drop Dead Diva). Has anyone created a plugin for mylifetime.com content? If not I'll try to create one myself.

I would like to know how to do this. mylifetime.com has tons of video content. I'm pretty noob to everything and really don't know where to start.
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#5
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=68337
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#6
divingmule Wrote:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=68337

This is what I've been looking for! Thank you very much. I've tried to search for this exact listing in the forum before to no avail. Much appreciated.
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#7
Ideally, to improve the overall WAF, I'd like to add a "Lifetime Channel" to my XBMC install. If you were to go to the following web site:
http://www.mylifetime.com/watch-full-movies-online
You can see all the movies available to stream from Lifetime. They even have an RSS feed to keep up on what movies are available. I tried entering that RSS feed as a video source on XBMC, but it came up as no episodes available (as the actual feed just gives links to the Lifetime web page to stream the movie from).

Just wondering if there is any code I could scrape from one of these pages that when put into an .strm file, XBMC would play the movie. If I can figure that part out, I think I could use Yahoo Pipes to create an RSS feed that would work in XBMC.

Any advice would be appreciated. If I could get this to work, then maybe I would tackle Hallmark channel, and the WAF would be 100%.
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#8
As a follow up to my question:

On Lifetime Channel's Web Site, I can choose the first movie and find a link to generate code to embed that movie on a web page. The code it generates look like this:

object id="flashObj" width="400" height="348" classid="clsidBig Grin27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0">
<param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<param name="flashVars" value="videoId=742140726001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mylifetime.com%2Fwatch-full-movies-online%2Fon-thin-ice%3Frss_lnk%3D&playerID=34284451001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Psdo~,VHRSAKDeoHkslgOFpvEewbCdoNHqT8LI&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" />
<param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" />
<param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=742140726001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mylifetime.com%2Fwatch-full-movies-online%2Fon-thin-ice%3Frss_lnk%3D&playerID=34284451001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Psdo~,VHRSAKDeoHkslgOFpvEewbCdoNHqT8LI&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="348" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</embed>
</object>

Is there anything in here I can put into .strm file and stream within XBMC?
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#9
It can be a lot of work to figure out how to stream Flash from a web site because the web site developers normally don't want you you to do this. However the good news is that if you can work out the correct URL XBMC will stream it.

JR
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#10
OK, so I ran URL Snooper on the web page in question and got this:

rtmp://cp88532.edgefcs.net/ondemand/&amp;mp4:1578086874/1578086874_742248159001_O-MOVE3208-DMPB-BC.mp4?__nn__=70287727001&amp;slist=1578086874/&amp;auth=daEdVcab4c1dvbpcdb6ccbPaAckdIaydhaP-bnlLYG-bWG-FCxpxwqkifhd

I saved that to a .strm file, and it failed to load. I'm not too clear on if rtmp addresses can be read natively in XBMC or if I need a plugin.
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#11
I tried that URL with rtmpdump and it didn't work, so there's probably an error with the URL. rtmpdump is the standard for streaming Flash. You can get it from http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/. Test the stream using:

rtmpdump -r rtmp://etc

If that works then putting the URL in a .strm file should work.

JR
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#12
Has anything become of this? An AddOn for mylifetime.com would be much appreciated.

Philip
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#13
any word on this addon? my wife is very interested in being able to watch lifetime on our apple tv (it runs xbmc gotham via crystalbuntu 2.0)
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