[taxigps]

You're right, not sure how watching the other videos work.

Do you think you can get in contact with the 5vido author? Perhaps add live channel servers to their list using this method? Often times in the US, PPTV servers work better than the listed sohu live channel servers. Also there's more PPTV live channels than Sohu live channels.

Thanks.

fixed live channels in PPTV视频. update to 1.2.5. thanks.

thanks a lot!

edit: I tried the update. I seem to be getting this error. whenever I try streaming a channel.

01:58:06 323.347534 T:2717766736 NOTICE: http://web-play.pptv.com/web-m3u8-300166...type=ppbox
01:58:06 323.368561 T:2717766736 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 58-61: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.pptv/default.py", line 821, in <module>
playVideo(name, url, thumb)
File "/storage/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.pptv/default.py", line 745, in playVideo
with open(m3u, "w") as f:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 58-61: ordinal not in range(128)
-->End of Python script error report<--

edit 2: that error appears when I use the raspberry pi. It doesn't appear when I use my laptop. Any clues what could be going on?

try to change line 744 as:
m3u = os.path.join( __temp__, u"%s%d.m3u" % (name.decode("utf-8"),i))