[jurrabi]

Yesterday I posted this same issue in the general Support forum (Find it here) but it went down really quickly with only 39 reads and no responses.

I thought this might be a better placing. This is the thing:

I have a plugin that can extract video URLs from several web pages. Then is gives a list of videos and lets you watch one.

The plugin is also capable of detecting when the video is hosted in megavideo.com and then allows you to configure your premium user name and password and then allows premium features like better video quality and no time limit.

The thing is that I want to add some of the videos to my library (some tv episodes mainly). So I thought that I could create a strm file and instead of inserting a video url insert a plugin url in this form:

PHP Code:

plugin://video/myplugin/?action=watch&source=MegaVideo&title=My+Online+Vid eo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sourceweb.com%2Fvideos%2F4 4413%2F 


In this way I can place the stmr file with my other videos of that tv series and I can get library information for it.

And it almost works!

I can fill my library and I can select it to play. This launches the strm file that launches the plugin with specific parameters to scrapp the video url from sourceweb.com and then does what is necesary to prepare a premium cookie for megavideo and then plays the video in premium mode.

The only problem is that xbmc thinks that the strm content wasn't valid and a popup message screen appears:

PHP Code:

"Playback Failed

One or more items failed to play.
Check the log file for details." 


The funny thing is that I can watch the video in the background just until the moment I press OK in the popup window.

Here is a view of the error logged in xbmc.log:

PHP Code:

...
21:42:29 T:3924 M:2836717568  NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio::Process()
21:42:29 T:3924 M:2838233088  NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86016, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through
21:42:29 T:4952 M:2833293312  NOTICE:  fps: 25.000000, pwidth: 640, pheight: 480, dwidth: 840, dheight: 480
21:42:29 T:4952 M:2833293312  NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 1366x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen (12)
21:42:30 T:2852 M:2835431424   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://video/myplugin/?action=watch&source=MegaVideo&title=My+Online+Video&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sourceweb.com%2Fvideos%2F44413%2F 
] 


I hope there is a way for the plugin to tell xbmc that it actually played something and that there is no error.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,

Jur.

[kreach]

The way I got this to work is by is that after you resolve the url you have to do something like this:

Code:

resolved_url='resolved_url'
listitem = xbmcgui.ListItem('', iconImage="DefaultVideoBig.png", thumbnailImage='', path=resolved_url)
xbmcplugin.setResolvedUrl(int(sys.argv[ 1 ]),True,listitem)

[jurrabi]

Thanks kreach. Your code was a lot of help.

I added the path param to my listitem and also set the resolvedurl...

I also had to add a check because when launching the plugin from strm file I don't have to call the xbmcplayer.play method.

So I placed something like this:

PHP Code:

if action="play": #If not strm file
           xbmcPlayer.play(playlist)
elif action="strm_file":
        xbmc.output("[jur.py] strm file. Avoid .play") 


Thanks for your time.

Jur.

[jurrabi]

Hi,

Now that I got that strm files going I found a side problem that I didn't spect.

As you might remember I'm creating strm files to access internet stream videos via plugin call.

The goal is to get those files in a movies directory and be able to use info scrapers on them.

Well, all the tests I did during development where with TV Series episodes and the scrappers would work perfect on them (giving that the naming and folder structure was adequate).

But when I try to get info for a movie file and I press the Info button, the scrapper starts, as I can see the quering scrapper message and then I get a selection list for the matching movies. But when I select one I get an info message saying:

PHP Code:

No Info Found!
my movie.strm 


The weird thing. If I rename that file to my movie.avi the scrapper works fine...

I can't see any valuable information in the log file.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Jur.

[jurrabi]

Please, can anyone give ideas on why xbmc doesn't scrap info for strm files?

I really would like this to work. Anyone from the dev. team can tell me if this "should" work and I must file it as an error or if xbmc is not supposed to work like I expect?


Thanks in advance,

Jur.

EDIT: I have done some more tests. The problem it's not scrapper dependent as I've tested with several and all show the same behavior.
I've also tried with many other file extensions, even new ones. I've created files with strv extension (and added it in advancedsettings.xml to make it a video extension for xbmc). This files can also be added to the video library. Of course I cannot play them as they are not correctly recognized by xbmc (if they where the problem will be solved).
The strm files show in the screen with an audio icon (as if they where audio files). Might this be related to the problem?

[jurrabi]

Adding information I gather.

I'm sorry to bother with this but I'm really clueless... Next step is going through XBMC source code.

Some more tips I've discovered. The info message that shows up when trying to scrap info for strm files is string ID 195 (No info found! in English strings.xml)

Here is a recap of the process to get the error:

1. Place a file with strm extension in a folder with content type set to Movies and any scrapper selected.
2. Press "I" over the strm file.
3. The scrapper gets the possible matches and pops up a window to let you select one.
4. When you select one and press ok you get the info:
No info found!+the name of the movie and just an ok button.

If I change the extension from strm to any other video file (avi,mkv, etc) the scrapper works just fine.

Finally I attach a paste bin log of xbmc.log of the process... although I don't know if this will be of any help since there is no significant message (that I can identify).
http://pastebin.com/m757737ca

Please, please. Any help will be well come.

Best regards,

Jur.

[Gardo551]

This is exactly what I were looking for, I managed to watch the movie I put on the Strm file, but when I try to put the scrapper It says no info found, so I'm looking forward for more info about this

[umOuch]

NO ONE IS RESPONDING OR HELPING WITH THIS I have been looking for info on this for months!