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You should ask error1 who he contacted. He seems to have gotten a response pretty quickly.
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That's how I contacted them. Got a reply tonight. Things are looking promising - sounds like they're interested in providing premium user authentication as well.
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So, has there been any progress on this? I'm curious to know how things have been going.
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Not yet, no - I haven't heard back from my contact there yet. I followed up tonight, so hopefully we'll get somewhere.
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Just heard back today. He explained to me how the Flash player (and the Boxee plugin) are retrieving ad info from the ad server. When I'm done work I'll do some packet sniffing to figure out if that will be feasible for me to do entirely in Pythonland - apparently the Boxee plugin is literally opening the page in a browser and expanding the Flash player to fullscreen. Needless to say that's lame and I'm not doing it that way if I can avoid it; I'm confident I can.
He did say that, if there's no easy way for me to handle it all in Pythonland, he'd put me in contact with the advertiser. There's a decent chance they'd be willing to put some code together to make this happen.
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Great to hear! I look forward to seeing what you're able to do. I'd really like to go back to being able to use the plugin. It's significantly less awesome to watch stuff on my monitor. Good luck with it!
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Agreed. Personally I haven't watched it since the plugin broke =p
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Will this thread be notified once the plugin is fixed? I want to be sure it's OK so I don't get blocked again from The Escapist.
Thanks!
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This is the only thing my xbmc setup is lacking for perfection.
Does this have anything to do with rtmpdump & the librtmp that xbmc uses? I was trying to get the Daily Show and Colbert Report working and all I had to do was replace those files.
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The difference is that the RSS feeds still direct you to the website and it allows things to play normally, including the ads. What the script does at the moment is pull a direct feed of the video, bypassing all advertisements and such, which annoyed The Escapist, so they started IP blocking people who were using the script.