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- BlueCop - 2011-11-27

american horror story doesn't have a full episode rss feed for some reason. It just isn't provided for that show. it is strange because the extras and clips have rss feeds. It will need a new scraper for it to work correctly. sorry...

I will commit the history patch in a bit. thanks Johnnyfive

They removed the universe and modern marvels from history and added them to H2 their new rebrand for history international. http://www.history.com/shows/h2 . I wrote something to scrape them to so it will readd those shows.


- PatrickBateman - 2011-11-27

BlueCop Wrote:american horror story doesn't have a full episode rss feed for some reason. It just isn't provided for that show. it is strange because the extras and clips have rss feeds. It will need a new scraper for it to work correctly. sorry...

I will commit the history patch in a bit. thanks Johnnyfive

They removed the universe and modern marvels from history and added them to H2 their new rebrand for history international. http://www.history.com/shows/h2 . I wrote something to scrape them to so it will readd those shows.

Thanks BC,
An amazing plugin that id be lost without! My self and the other half really love watching the 48hr mysteries, as we don't get them over here. They are truly fascinating! So thanks for introducing them to us Nod

That's for keeping this plugin updated (and the host of other plugins you've created) (off topic but the reddit one is working perfect now too since its update).

Thanks again,
Pat~

Your entire range of plugins are


- StinDaWg - 2011-11-27

Nice plugin! A lot of newer MTV shows are not available that are on their website though. Just a few off the top of my head are Beavis and Butt-head and The Real World: San Diego. There are older seasons of Real World available why wouldn't the newer one be? They have a lot of the newer stuff in 720p which would be great to watch in xbmc because watching in the browser with flash is never smooth.


- Johnnyfive - 2011-11-27

Hi Bluecop,

I have a patch that fixes a lot of the nbc shows like Free Agents, Grimm etc. Saturday Night Live still doesn't return any shows as that would require a different scraper again. I've added a method that scrapes the recent episodes on the shows home page eg http://www.nbc.com/grimm/ if your original method fails.

The diff is on pastebin if you're interested
http://pastebin.com/NNGrMLPe

Thanks for all your work on your plugins


- dynaflash - 2011-11-28

Most fantastic! things looking very nice. While not going to the well too often ... *any* chance Discovery Channel can be cracked ? Just figure it was worth a shot Wink .

Thanks again so much for this. Phenomenal, simply phenomenal!


ABC Family? - poopyurinal - 2011-11-29

I just installed this to try to get ABC Family working for my wife, but none of the shows seem to be able to play. I've tried multiple shows, full episodes and short videos. The episode list appears, as well as a synopsis, but when I try to play them, the "working" icon appears briefly and then disappears and nothing else happens. Any thoughts? I searched this thread but didn't see anything recently about this. I am using version 0.1.9 of the plugin. Can anyone help me troubleshoot? Let me know if there's any more information that I can provide.

And thanks, BlueCop, for all your hard work. You've made my XBMC installation twice as useful!


- vivarey - 2011-11-30

Hi everyone,

I'm a noob to the XBMC world. Last night I installed XBMC on my jailbroken ATV2, along with BlueCop's depository, and I tested Free Cable to see what it was all about -- nothing would play for me, but I was able to browse the list of shows and networks. Do I need to patch any files to get started? Is each show coming from a different feed?

Thanks!


- ronmcse - 2011-11-30

Anyone having problems with CBS and NBC?


- ronmcse - 2011-11-30

vivarey Wrote:Hi everyone,

I'm a noob to the XBMC world. Last night I installed XBMC on my jailbroken ATV2, along with BlueCop's depository, and I tested Free Cable to see what it was all about -- nothing would play for me, but I was able to browse the list of shows and networks. Do I need to patch any files to get started? Is each show coming from a different feed?

Thanks!

When I was new at this I had the same problem. Did you download and install the lastest update aka "nightly build" after you installed XBMC. First you install XBMC, but then you have to download last nights build and install it too. Then your Free cable should work. Here are instructions on installing the nightly builds: Click here


- BlueCop - 2011-11-30

ronmcse Wrote:Anyone having problems with CBS and NBC?

yeap. CBS changed their carousels code. The good news is that their new json lists are nice and detailed. so things will have more meta-data when fixed.

I keep getting side-tracked away from free cable. sorry...

Johnnyfive: would you be interested in committing? I welcome any fixes you have.


- vivarey - 2011-11-30

ronmcse Wrote:When I was new at this I had the same problem. Did you download and install the lastest update aka "nightly build" after you installed XBMC. First you install XBMC, but then you have to download last nights build and install it too. Then your Free cable should work. Here are instructions on installing the nightly builds: Click here

Thank you so much! Really appreciate your help. I'll do this tonight.


- ronmcse - 2011-11-30

vivarey Wrote:Thank you so much! Really appreciate your help. I'll do this tonight.

You're welcome, I'll try to help in any way I can. You only have to do the Nightly build once. It should take care of your issues. The only other time you would need to do a nightly build is if something isn't working correctly and someone suggest installing the latest nightly.


- dynaflash - 2011-12-01

BlueCop Wrote:Johnnyfive: would you be interested in committing? I welcome any fixes you have.
* dynaflash cheers on Johnnyfive Smile Fwiw also had good luck with his nbc patch. Also fwiw anyone new to this using linux would be well off to observe the librtmp issue and upgrade asap, it makes a huge difference. Just my .02 of course.


- Zeee1 - 2011-12-01

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone is having problems with this plugin. I just updated the plugin this morning and I am not able to play How I Met Your Mother. Is there something else that I need to do?

Thank you,

Zeee1
Apple TV 2 4.3.2


- BlueCop - 2011-12-01

no need for a log.

some of the CBS show pages are down.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/video/

this url for example is currently throwing a error 500 Internal Server Error.

It was working before the pages went down.

Also I updated to 0.2.0 and it includes fixes for CBS, History(now includes H2 shows), USA, NBC Full Episode lists

NBC still needs fixes for some show pages for extras content.