ZeroPunctuation is a series of (hilarious) video game reviews done by "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Check out the videos here:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/v...unctuation .
This would be a very easy plugin to make for XBMC, mostly because a Python script to scrape the FLV video from the web player has already been made. It can be seen in action here:
http://zp.dbrweb.co.uk/ .The scripts are located here:
http://github.com/dbr/zp_grabber/tree/master .
With very little modification, I was able to get zp_grabber.py to work in XBMC as a script and generate a zp_cache.txt (A list of the FLV video URL's). My modified .py is pasted here:
http://pastebin.com/m2113aef3 .
So, this script (specifically zp_grabber.py) needs very little work to become a XBMC plugin. Unfortunately, I do not know python well enough to write this as of now; however I think that an experienced python xbmc coder could whip up a plugin out of this in a matter of minutes.
In my experience, you should never call something "easy" unless you can do it yourself.
joebrady Wrote:In my experience, you should never call something "easy" unless you can do it yourself.
Well, I actually have hacked up a XBMC plugin for this already.. it works.. but its awful
. If I was able to do this though I think an experienced python coder should have no problem. I'll keep working on it though and if nobody else wants to take a look at this, I'll release my script.
storhaug.3 Wrote:Well, I actually have hacked up a XBMC plugin for this already.. it works.. but its awful . If I was able to do this though I think an experienced python coder should have no problem. I'll keep working on it though and if nobody else wants to take a look at this, I'll release my script.
If you have any questions, we'll be happy to help you improve what you already have.
I love Zero Punctuation but I would request an expansion of the plugin request to the include the entire escapist site. some of the other shows are quite good too imho.
I was looking at reviving my old plugin but I can't get the md5 hashing to work on XBMC as Hashlib seems not to be present. Am I just showing my lack of Python knowledge or is there a different way of creating a md5 hash?
Thank you so much BlueCop, that works perfectly. Still relatively new to this Python lark and should really look a bit harder before giving up!
I'll tidy up my old plugin and drop that on my code page but really look forward to a better version from storhaug.3.
looking forward for this
Sorry not to get the plugin up yesterday, got rather busier than I thought. I hope to clean it up a bit more and get some of the back episodes added hopefully this week. Thanks for the assist on this one, I have been trying for ages to crack what was in actual fact a rather obvious code. Hopefully the Escapist won't change again too soon!
http://sico99xbmcstuff.googlecode.com/fi...ist0.5.zip
works well, can't say i've played alot with it but i played a few different videos and navigated around.
good work!!
only thing i didnt like was the aeon support with the images, but that was to be expected..
its obviously possible to change the cover image for the plugin..
is it possible to put user created images in different locations to change the menu images.. de rez, zero punc, etc?
Hi Mojario,
sorry to take so long to get back to you. I was not aware of the issues with Aeon, I haven't got it on my XBox at the moment but I will try putting it on there tonight and see what is happening with it.
The images are all directly from the site, all I do is scrape the videos page and put the relevant image with the feed. I'm afraid as it is not hard coded, i.e. there is not a specific list of the shows only the web page it is really customisable.
thats ok i figured as much.. dont worry too much, its more just the way aeon presents itself.. probably not alot you can do without going to too much effort other than changing the images on the site itself :p
The plugin recently stopped working... any idea if its fixable?
I was wondering if there was any life to this add-on. And if Dharma would be a good reason to dust it off.