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Hulu is useless to the large amount of users outside of the US though. I agree Hulu et. al. should at least be in the official repo though.
But yes, my thoughts were if we had the popularity ratings, then we could offer default listings (and the addons would install on demand).
@topfs2: regarding pagination - ideally we'd be passing that info (and other info, such as "we want videos") into the plugin, I agree - most of the pagination that plugins do is due to the fact that the website they're scraping is paginated, so you can see why they do it.
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Jonathan
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2011-03-10, 00:57
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-10, 01:01 by SpectreX.)
Streaming is useless for anything else than TV Shows (and even there something like OTA or Cable Card offers superior PQ quality). Inferior crappy quality (low bitrate) 720p content with 10 year old tech (DD) sound vs 1080p 40Mbps DTS-HD 7.1 Blu Ray quality? Streaming is a joke for anybody who cares about video/audio quality, so anybody in that category chooses local content, hence chooses XBMC or 7MC. Streaming is a Yugo atm, Blu Ray is the BMW M5. It will take years before the majority of people have 60Mbps + speeds on their internet connection so streaming content actually can compete with ripped local Blu Ray in terms of audio/video quality. Boxee has an interface that screams "Windows 95 called, it wants it`s interface back". The most fugly thing i have ever seen in my life. Plex is indeed nice, but it`s just a more limited XBMC fork, i haven`t yet seen anything that Plex can do and XBMC can`t.
The XBMC devs should focus on :
-> Getting HD audio bistreaming working (AudioEngine is getting developed for that, so that`s taken care of in Eden)
-> PVR/DVR functionality (very important if XBMC wants to take over a lot users from 7MC)
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I am using xbmc for about 2-3 weeks now and I would say that it has worked perfectly for me. No crashes and it does exactly what I want and even more than I expected.
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it pleases me that this discussion is taking place.. i do hope for the success of XBMC and others which will at some point be strong contenders for video streaming.. true local content is useful to some.. that's why disc players do well.. but eventually we all want immediate open access to everything.. on demand streaming over the internet holds that promise.. one final point tonight.. when i bought my new 55 inch LG tv.. it came with Netcast to access Youtube.. and as soon as i saw it running i realized the only reason i didn't get Google or the entire internet was they didn't put on the links in the form of widgets.. its a no brainer that it is capable right now today..
thank you to everyone.. for your attention and kindness..