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[RELEASE] TED Talks (Video) Plugin
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Plugin for watching videos from TED.com

Quote:TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.
Version 2.0 Released.

Features:
  • browsing by Theme, Speaker, Newest Talks, or Favorites (requires an ted.com login)

Available via Kodi repository

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#2
Hah, nice. I spent the last hour writing my own just to find that it already existed. Oh well, not completly in vain as it was a learning experience that I will use for other scripts aswell..

here's my version:

http://rafb.net/p/5kLwKd95.html

It lacks some of your features in its current shape, maybe I'll finish it, or maybe I'll just start using yours.
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#3
I don't know which is the 'correct' version of this plugin to be using but I couldn't get any of them to work for me; the only one that loaded proceeded to die when you tried clicking on a theme so finally resorted to looking at the ted_talks.py file and there was a problem with the listThemeTalks procedure simply commenting out the following two lines did the trick as the www. doesn't make any difference to the RSS feed URL.

#p=re.compile('//')
#match=p.sub('//www.',match[0])

Thought I'd share this with others who love this plugin but can't seem to get it to work at the moment.
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#4
to fix the ted plugin edit /Q/plugins/video/TED Talks/resources/lib/ted_talks.py at line 140
from
Quote:match=p.sub('//www.',match[0])
to
Quote:match=p.sub('//',match[0])
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#5
I'm running into a 403 Forbidden error when trying to access this url to download the ted talks plugin - I'd really like to get ted talks working on my XBMC install as I think they are a fantastic resource that I don't spend enough time watching. I think having a slick interface on my TV would encourage me to watch them more frequently...


Any suggestions? Is this project dead? Moved elsewhere? Any help would be appreciated. I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, it's early and I haven't yet had my 2nd coffee.


THanks!
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#6
Quote:Any suggestions? Is this project dead? Moved elsewhere? Any help would be appreciated.

After a bit of Googling I found the TED Talks video plugin here: http://www.theprojectxbmc.com/index.php?...Talks.html
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Rando Wrote:I'm running into a 403 Forbidden error when trying to access this url to download the ted talks plugin - I'd really like to get ted talks working on my XBMC install as I think they are a fantastic resource that I don't spend enough time watching. I think having a slick interface on my TV would encourage me to watch them more frequently...


Any suggestions? Is this project dead? Moved elsewhere? Any help would be appreciated. I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, it's early and I haven't yet had my 2nd coffee.


THanks!

futwick Wrote:After a bit of Googling I found the TED Talks video plugin here: http://www.theprojectxbmc.com/index.php?...Talks.html

kurrazyman Wrote:I don't know which is the 'correct' version of this plugin to be using but I couldn't get any of them to work for me...


Please use the SVN Repo Installer to install any of my plugins. SVN Repo installer.
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#8
1st post updated.
Quote:Plugin for watching videos from TED.com

Version 2.0 Released.

Supports browsing by Theme, Speaker, Newest Talks, or Favorites (requires an account at ted.com).

Enter your ted.com account username and password in the plugin settings (available via context menu) to browse your Favorite videos, as well as add/remove videos from your favorites list.

Available via SVN Repo installer.

[I deleted a lot of older/irrelevant posts in this thread. Don't be offended if yours is gone Smile]

Thanks to all of those who posted patches while I was lazy Smile
Please let me know of any problems you may have with the plugin in this thread. Thanks.
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#9
Code:
[TED Talks] version 2.1.01
added: Download Support
fixed: bug in getAllSpeakers caused speaker list not to load.
costmetics: PEP8

I didn't test downloading to networked devices. Please post if you try and it doesn't work for you.
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#10
thanx for the very useful plugin. is there a way to predefine location for downloading videos so that you don't have to enter it every time?
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#11
wikiped Wrote:thanx for the very useful plugin. is there a way to predefine location for downloading videos so that you don't have to enter it every time?

done.

Code:
[TED Talks]
added: setting for download folder or ask for each download
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#12
Love the plugin.

Wondering if you can allow the entire title of the speaker show instead of having it cut off and show the ellipsis (...)?

-Ippie
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#13
Unfortunately not, it would slow browsing down to a crawl. Blame TED.com.
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#14
Two questions:
When you go through the Speakers node, open a speaker and go back, you end up back on the home node (not back in speaker), is it by design?
Would it be possible to use SHIFT keyboard navigation in the speaker list? (ie SHIFT C would go to the first C surname)
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sho Wrote:Two questions:
When you go through the Speakers node, open a speaker and go back, you end up back on the home node (not back in speaker), is it by design?
Would it be possible to use SHIFT keyboard navigation in the speaker list? (ie SHIFT C would go to the first C surname)

Done, thanks for pointing these out.

Code:
[TED Talks]
changed: sort listings by label instead of title so jumping via SHIFT+LETTER navigation works.
fixed: Individual Themes & Speakers would return to the main list instead their respective listings.
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