[fraserc]

Deutsche Welle

This add-on enables playing of live TV and videos from the Deutsche Welle website.
 

• Shows Live TV such as; DW English, DW Deutsch, DW Deutsch+, DW Español and عربية DW
  
• Shows TV Programmes such as; Arts.21, Close Up, DocFilm, etc
  
• Shows topics such as; Lifestyle, Education, Science, Sports, etc
  
• Shows programs from the last 24 hours
  
• Allows searching and saved searches
  
• Caches recently viewed files for fast replay
  

Donations for this add-on gratefully accepted

Source

https://github.com/FraserChapman/plugin.video.dw

The Collection

Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster. It conveys a comprehensive image of Germany, reports events and developments and incorporates German and other perspectives in a journalistically independent manner.

Disclaimer

This add-on is not created, maintained or in any way affiliated with Deutsche Welle. It only provides an interface to access the free content on the Deutsche Welle website from Kodi.

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Licence

All art work, code and data is provided under an MIT License except the two images icon.png and fanart.jpg


Twitter - Public Domain / Fair use 

Daily Motion - Public Domain / Fair Use

[asik1]

kudos to you fraserc,
I have your repo, I hope to get DW there.

[jmh2002]

Nice, thank you, it's much appreciated

[fraserc]

kudos to you fraserc,
I have your repo, I hope to get DW there.

Thanks for the kind words! I am debating putting this into my "repository.film.archives" - as it isn't really a film archive...That said, I have a couple of other "news" add-ons in testing too - so my plan it to actually make a "repository.news.channels" so that they are all together logically. On top of this I plan to make a master "repository.kodi.fraser" that itself will simply contain my other repo add-ons (if that makes sense). This way I can keep things organised and categorised - and can add any additional repository.x.y if I have further addons outside the scope of the others. 

e.g.

• repository.kodi.fraser
  • repository.film.archives
    
  • repository.news.channels
    
  • repository.x.y
    

...I may also simply re-brand "repository.film.archives" to "repository.kodi.fraser" and put all my add-ons in there, flat, just like the main Kodi repo.

OOI which do you think makes most sense?

A master "repository of nested repositories" as outlined - or simply a single repository that contains all my add-ons?

My thinking is the former as one thing that really bugs me about the Kodi repo is just how many add-ons there are and the fact that they are actually all quite different - meaning it is a bit of a smörgåsbord of fairly unrelated things - a bit like going into a shop that has sandwiches, paint and lawnmowers on the same shelf!

[fraserc]

Nice, thank you, it's much appreciated

Thanks for the support, it is great to get appreciative feedback

[fraserc]

This add-on is now available in Kodi Leia and above

[asik1]

I installed it and it work fine but the items list is date ascending on one hand but "page 2" is on top of the list
* The best section in DW is DocFilm,

[fraserc]

I installed it and it work fine but the items list is date ascending on one hand but "page 2" is on top of the list
* The best section in DW is DocFilm,

This is by design - the [page n] links in all my add-ons are always at the top of the list (with the ".." back link)
When you get to the bottom of a list - just go down once more and you get to the paging links at the top (i.e. the list navigation loops) 

Also - you can change the sort method (date, duration, title) and direction (ascending, descending) in the options 

Have fun!

[asik1]

I installed it and it work fine but the items list is date ascending on one hand but "page 2" is on top of the list
* The best section in DW is DocFilm,

This is by design - the [page n] links in all my add-ons are always at the top of the list (with the ".." back link)
When you get to the bottom of a list - just go down once more and you get to the paging links at the top (i.e. the list navigation loops) 

Also - you can change the sort method (date, duration, title) and direction (ascending, descending) in the options 

Have fun! 

OH,,, never tried going further "down"...
** The live streams are hit or mis, mostly mis here on my K18.3 on android7.1

[fraserc]

@asik1 re: OH,,, never tried going further "down"...

re: The live streams are hit or mis, mostly mis here on my K18.3 on android7.1

How do you mean hit or miss? In term of the content or the stream actually working? I have had no issues with them at all in terms of them playing - although the "DW Español" stream is only on for about 6 hours per-day it should default to DW English at all other times. If you have a failed streams I'd be super interested to see the log for it if that is something you could provide? 

Thanks for the feedback

[asik1]

I installed it and it work fine but the items list is date ascending on one hand but "page 2" is on top of the list
* The best section in DW is DocFilm,

This is by design - the [page n] links in all my add-ons are always at the top of the list (with the ".." back link)
When you get to the bottom of a list - just go down once more and you get to the paging links at the top (i.e. the list navigation loops) 

Also - you can change the sort method (date, duration, title) and direction (ascending, descending) in the options 

Have fun!  

OH,,, never tried going further "down"...
** The live streams are hit or mis, mostly mis here on my K18.3 on android7.1 

Yes, the streams do not work. I didn't know they are not 24/7 . I guess english and german do, but still I never was able to get the german stream and english only about 25% of the tries. I can see the "working" is working for 20-30sec and than gives up.
(I'm in Israel)

[fraserc]

@asik1  re: I can see the "working" is working for 20-30sec and than gives up.

Hmm it could be any number of things - I would guess and some networking issue - is your connection relatively stable? Be super interested to see a log file of a stream that has disconnected if you could provide it. 
In any case many thanks for the heads up - will play with it myself and see if I can reproduce the issue (...FWIW I had the English stream on for about 4 hours without issue the other day - and have never had any disco when testing either).

[asik1]

Well this morning at 09:52 all 5 streams were connected and worked
but now 12:42 no Deutsch or arabic.
I don't have much networking issues, I'm on 15Mb ADSL and been cord cutter for the last 7 years.
**Now at 12:58 no English also Here  the log extract
2019-07-20 12:58:45.998 T:7648   ERROR: Control 50 in window 10025 has been asked to focus, but it can't
2019-07-20 12:59:00.117 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: plugin://plugin.video.dw/play?m3u8=https%3A%2F%2Fdwstream4-lh.akamaihd.net%2Fi%2Fdwstream4_live%40131329%2Fmaster.m3u8&title=Euromaxx+-+Lifestyle+Europe
2019-07-20 12:59:02.806 T:12048  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2019-07-20 12:59:03.381 T:12048  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
2019-07-20 12:59:33.958 T:12048   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
2019-07-20 12:59:33.959 T:12048  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2019-07-20 12:59:33.999 T:7648  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2019-07-20 12:59:34.002 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2019-07-20 12:59:34.003 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2019-07-20 12:59:38.614 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: plugin://plugin.video.dw/play?m3u8=https%3A%2F%2Fdwstream6-lh.akamaihd.net%2Fi%2Fdwstream6_live%40123962%2Fmaster.m3u8&title=Auf+ein+Wort...+-+Michel+Friedman+im+Gespr%C3%A4ch+mit+Astrid+Erll
2019-07-20 12:59:40.309 T:12096  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2019-07-20 12:59:40.799 T:12096  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
2019-07-20 13:00:11.328 T:12096   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
2019-07-20 13:00:11.329 T:12096  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2019-07-20 13:00:11.363 T:7648  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2019-07-20 13:00:11.364 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2019-07-20 13:00:11.364 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

You see each try lasts ~30sec

[fraserc]

Well this morning at 09:52 all 5 streams were connected and worked
but now 12:42 no Deutsch or arabic.
I don't have much networking issues, I'm on 15Mb ADSL and been cord cutter for the last 7 years.
**Now at 12:58 no English also Here  the log extract
2019-07-20 12:58:45.998 T:7648   ERROR: Control 50 in window 10025 has been asked to focus, but it can't
2019-07-20 12:59:00.117 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: plugin://plugin.video.dw/play?m3u8=https%3A%2F%2Fdwstream4-lh.akamaihd.net%2Fi%2Fdwstream4_live%40131329%2Fmaster.m3u8&title=Euromaxx+-+Lifestyle+Europe
2019-07-20 12:59:02.806 T:12048  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2019-07-20 12:59:03.381 T:12048  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
2019-07-20 12:59:33.958 T:12048   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
2019-07-20 12:59:33.959 T:12048  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2019-07-20 12:59:33.999 T:7648  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2019-07-20 12:59:34.002 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2019-07-20 12:59:34.003 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2019-07-20 12:59:38.614 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: plugin://plugin.video.dw/play?m3u8=https%3A%2F%2Fdwstream6-lh.akamaihd.net%2Fi%2Fdwstream6_live%40123962%2Fmaster.m3u8&title=Auf+ein+Wort...+-+Michel+Friedman+im+Gespr%C3%A4ch+mit+Astrid+Erll
2019-07-20 12:59:40.309 T:12096  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2019-07-20 12:59:40.799 T:12096  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
2019-07-20 13:00:11.328 T:12096   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
2019-07-20 13:00:11.329 T:12096  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2019-07-20 13:00:11.363 T:7648  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2019-07-20 13:00:11.364 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2019-07-20 13:00:11.364 T:7648  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

You see each try lasts ~30sec

re: ...and been cord cutter for the last 7 years - good to know you know your stuff!

Ah ok - I can see the issue is with the Demux - but the log doesn't have debug logging enabled...
Could you switch it on (settings > system > logging > enable debug logging), then reboot your device and reproduce the issue - finally upload that log via https://paste.kodi.tv

Thanks for your help on this

[asik1]

Here a full 657K log
https://paste.kodi.tv/vasijeraqe.kodi

I think here only the german didn't work.