[barney63]

I just tested the search using Shy Guy, Of Heaven and Home, and What to Do on a Date and they all worked.  Using just heaven alone (Of Heaven and Home) brought up nothing.  It is working much better than before.  Thanks

I'm still trying to figure out how the sort works.  In the settings I am sorting by title (alphabetically) and it does sort a group of results A-Z, then a couple of pages in it starts another group and sorts them A-Z.  I am using the 1950s Classic TV category.

Edit:  Just reread the previous post, is this what is happening?
This version will list the multiple qualities sorted quality wise ONLY when multiples qualities are available.

Kodi 19.4 Win 7

[barney63]

Is there a limit on the number of search results that are displayed.  I searched for coca cola and jfk assassination and both brought up 50 results and Next Page at the bottom.  When you click Next Page there is nothing.  Just wondering what is going on there as there should be more results.

[gujal]

Edit:  Just reread the previous post, is this what is happening?
This version will list the multiple qualities sorted quality wise ONLY when multiples qualities are available.

Kodi 19.4 Win 7

That is nothing to do with the search results or sorting.

The change above adds a feature where in when you play a video file, if there are multiple qualities available, it will show a dialog box for you to select which one you want to play.
The dialog box lists the qualities from highest to lowest and also shows if it is mp4, mkv, ogg, etc
If there is only one quality then it will play without prompting the user as before

[gujal]

Is there a limit on the number of search results that are displayed.  I searched for coca cola and jfk assassination and both brought up 50 results and Next Page at the bottom.  When you click Next Page there is nothing.  Just wondering what is going on there as there should be more results.

Okay, try this version. This one has a fix for the search - next page issue that you mention.
Also this one now has Pagination support in the main menu, so you can view all the collections
plugin.video.internetarchive-4.2.6~beta2

[AntiPontifex]

Thank you for fixing this: I hope, in time, you submit this to the official repo as well as creating a github
so it can be corrected as needs be. Again, thank you.

[03stevensmi]

Dam! Thanks bro. Cheers, will test out. Thx
You & @MetalChris are really talented guys. Keep up the great work guys! Cheers!

[Edit]:
@gujal Unfortunatly is does not let me choose the extention.
The video had an .avi file (original best quality) and the .mp4 file (internet archive's compressed poor quality).
the video loaded straight to the mp4 file (compressed quality). No choice.
here is the log incase it helps:

2022-05-08 10:21:26.404 T:16072 INFO : CPythonInvoker(0, C:\Users\sonik\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\service.xbmc.versioncheck\resources\lib\runner.py): script successfully run 2022-05-08 10:21:26.434 T:16072 INFO : Python interpreter stopped 2022-05-08 10:21:28.074 T:504 WARNING : [WS-Discovery]: The initial search for servers has failed. No servers found. 2022-05-08 10:21:30.941 T:11520 INFO : CPythonInvoker(1, C:\Users\sonik\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.internetarchive\addon.py): script successfully run 2022-05-08 10:21:31.012 T:11520 INFO : Python interpreter stopped 2022-05-08 10:21:32.280 T:5556 INFO : initializing python engine. 2022-05-08 10:21:34.540 T:2464 INFO : Loading skin file: DialogKeyboard.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY 2022-05-08 10:21:49.482 T:5556 INFO : CPythonInvoker(2, C:\Users\sonik\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.internetarchive\addon.py): script successfully run 2022-05-08 10:21:49.620 T:5556 INFO : Python interpreter stopped 2022-05-08 10:21:53.924 T:16696 INFO : initializing python engine. 2022-05-08 10:21:58.676 T:16696 INFO : CPythonInvoker(3, C:\Users\sonik\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.internetarchive\addon.py): script aborted 2022-05-08 10:21:58.726 T:16696 INFO : Python interpreter stopped 2022-05-08 10:21:58.738 T:10572 ERROR : XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.internetarchive/?mode=67&name=MTV%20Europe%20-%20VHS%20%23001&url=https%3a%2f%2farchive.org%2fdetails%2fmtv-europe-vhs-001 2022-05-08 10:22:00.180 T:2464 INFO : VideoPlayer::OpenFile: https://archive.org/download/mtv-europe-...%23001.mp4 2022-05-08 10:22:00.509 T:10856 INFO : Creating InputStream 2022-05-08 10:22:00.534 T:2464 ERROR : CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.internetarchive/?mode=67&name=MTV%20Europe%20-%20VHS%20%23001&url=https%3a%2f%2farchive.org%2fdetails%2fmtv-europe-vhs-001) failed 2022-05-08 10:22:03.519 T:10856 INFO : Creating Demuxer 2022-05-08 10:22:08.878 T:10856 INFO : Opening stream: 0 source: 256 2022-05-08 10:22:08.879 T:10856 INFO : Creating video codec with codec id: 27 2022-05-08 10:22:08.879 T:10856 INFO : CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 2022-05-08 10:22:08.880 T:10856 INFO : Creating video thread 2022-05-08 10:22:08.881 T:14316 INFO : running thread: video_thread 2022-05-08 10:22:08.882 T:10856 INFO : Opening stream: 1 source: 256 2022-05-08 10:22:08.882 T:10856 INFO : Finding audio codec for: 86018 2022-05-08 10:22:08.883 T:10856 INFO : CDVDAudioCodecFFmpeg::Open() Successful opened audio decoder aac 2022-05-08 10:22:08.883 T:10856 INFO : Creating audio thread 2022-05-08 10:22:08.883 T:16088 INFO : running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio:rocess() 2022-05-08 10:22:08.884 T:14316 INFO : DXVA::CContext::CreateContext: creating discrete d3d11va device for decoding. 2022-05-08 10:22:08.895 T:16088 INFO : Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through) 2022-05-08 10:22:08.921 T:4088 INFO : CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink 2022-05-08 10:22:08.924 T:14316 INFO : DXVA::CDecoder::Open: Total video memory available is 2118 MB (dedicated = 128 MB, shared = 1990 MB) 2022-05-08 10:22:09.068 T:2464 INFO : DXVA::CProcessorHD::InitProcessor: supported deinterlace methods: blend:yes, bob:yes, adaptive:yes, mocomp:yes. 2022-05-08 10:22:09.083 T:2464 WARNING : CRendererHQ::CheckVideoParameters: chosen scaling method 1 is not supported by renderer 2022-05-08 10:22:09.356 T:2464 INFO : Loading skin file: VideoFullScreen.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY 2022-05-08 10:22:09.448 T:14316 INFO : CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::CDropControl: calculated diff time: 40000]


Is there anyway this could be fixed?
Once again, cheers!

[03stevensmi]

Oops, sorry for the double post (please remove)

[barney63]

Okay, try this version. This one has a fix for the search - next page issue that you mention.
Also this one now has Pagination support in the main menu, so you can view all the collections
plugin.video.internetarchive-4.2.6~beta2

@gujal

Looks like the search - next page issue has been solved, thanks.

As for the second part, the main menu pagination support, can we view them in alphabetical order over the rest of the pages?

By that I mean, as it is now, Page One lists items A-Z, Page Two A-Z, Page Three A-Z.  By listing them that way you have no clue of how many pages more there are.

Can they be listed by Page One (A-D), Page Two picks up where Page One left off (E-F), Page Three (G-J) that way if you are at Page Three and you are only at G you have an idea of how many pages are left to go. 

My (A-D), (E-F) (G-J) suggestions aren't meant to be taken literally, Page One and Page Two might consist of only A, and B might start at Page Three.  That tells me if I am only at B on Page Three there are a lot more pages to go.

I don't know if that makes any sense but the reason I am being so particular about this is that the Internet Archive is a huge repository.  The search works now, but how do I find something if I don't know the title.  The browsing should help narrow it down.

My example of that would be the CBC addon which didn't have a search.  It does now (thanks micahg).  I tried looking for an Anne Murray video.  It wasn't under Music, it wasn't under Biography, it wasn't under Arts and Entertainment, I think I finally found it under Shows/Documentary which was none too specific so that's why the search was so important (but you still need to know the name of the video) for that to work.

[gujal]

As for the second part, the main menu pagination support, can we view them in alphabetical order over the rest of the pages?

By that I mean, as it is now, Page One lists items A-Z, Page Two A-Z, Page Three A-Z.  By listing them that way you have no clue of how many pages more there are.

Can they be listed by Page One (A-D), Page Two picks up where Page One left off (E-F), Page Three (G-J) that way if you are at Page Three and you are only at G you have an idea of how many pages are left to go.

This is an issue with Internet Archive website. It takes really long if you request collections sorted by title on the website. So in the addon it times out if we do that. Same thing about pages, there is no indication of the total pages on the website, so the addon cant do anything about it.
If there was a api provided by Internet Archive then it will be a lot easier, but with web scraping this is what it is unfortunately

[barney63]

@gujal
Ok, thanks for the explanation, if you don't ask you won't know   Just getting the search going was a big leap forward.  Thanks for checking.

[gujal]

The video had an .avi file (original best quality) and the .mp4 file (internet archive's compressed poor quality).
the video loaded straight to the mp4 file (compressed quality). No choice.
here is the log incase it helps:

Is there anyway this could be fixed?
Once again, cheers!

This is because of IA being inconsistent. They normally present multiple qualities on the web page on 'js-play8-playlist' section. Now for the page you linked above the playlist section only lists the mp4 file as below
 

Code:

<input class="js-play8-playlist" type="hidden" value='[{"title":"MTV Europe #001","orig":"MTV_Europe_#001.avi","image":"/download/mtv-europe-vhs-001/mtv-europe-vhs-001.thumbs%2FMTV_Europe_%23001_000115.jpg","duration":11904,
"sources":[{"file":"/download/mtv-europe-vhs-001/MTV_Europe_%23001.mp4","type":"mp4","height":"450","width":"600","label":"450p"}],
"tracks":[{"kind":"thumbnails","file":"/stream/mtv-europe-vhs-001/mtv-europe-vhs-001.thumbs/MTV_Europe_%23001_000115.jpg?vtt=vtt.vtt"}]}]'/>

Fixing this would be tough, the balance is to find a common method to pull qualities for most files

[gujal]

Thank you for fixing this: I hope, in time, you submit this to the official repo as well as creating a github
so it can be corrected as needs be. Again, thank you.

I do not know if @MetalChris maintains a git for code contribution. He maintains the release repo, so it is up to him what he wants to do with this

[03stevensmi]

The video had an .avi file (original best quality) and the .mp4 file (internet archive's compressed poor quality). the video loaded straight to the mp4 file (compressed quality). No choice. here is the log incase it helps: Is there anyway this could be fixed? Once again, cheers!

This is because of IA being inconsistent. They normally present multiple qualities on the web page on 'js-play8-playlist' section. Now for the page you linked above the playlist section only lists the mp4 file as below  
 

 

@gujal how exactly would this be fixed? Just curious, like what would be the game plan to get around this?
would it be easier to just display the whole downloads open directory url (with all folders & files) and be able to choose the files manually?
or have an option in the settings to choose what format it will scrap?

[gujal]

@gujal Unfortunatly is does not let me choose the extention.
The video had an .avi file (original best quality) and the .mp4 file (internet archive's compressed poor quality).
the video loaded straight to the mp4 file (compressed quality). No choice.

Is there anyway this could be fixed?
Once again, cheers!

Please test with this version and report back if you are able to select the file on MTV Europe VHS
plugin.video.internetarchive-4.2.6~beta3.zip

[03stevensmi]

I'm on it!

[UPDATE]:
@gujal 
Right,
tested with multiple videos.
works great! Thanks so much for doing what you could!
works amazingly! Thanks bro!