2014-08-23, 01:22
(2014-08-12, 05:14)nickr Wrote: I think people find the lack of support from the addon author(s) is frustrating, the lack of releases from github to the xbmc repo, the haphazard nature of the patches that have been submitted to this thread (usually not as proper patches either) and similar issues. I get that HenrikDK probably prefers to spend his time doing things other than cruising this forum looking for things to post about, but when people post a lot about errors you'd expect some posting, even if just to say "sorry I am busy with life right now, I'll try and fix this when I get to it." I imagine that given the number of people using this addon, he must feel a lot of pressure to keep up with it, maybe he feels it is a monster he can no longer get away from. I am grateful for the effort that has gone into this addon over the years.
Reading through this forum does make me (and obviously others) think it has been neglected lately though.
Even without those issues, there is nothing wrong with a post pointing to an alternative. It is not rude. It doesn't deprive HenrikDK of an income, because it's all free. it is not spam, it will simply be a welcome pointer to many.
If the other plugin author was displeased with the state of this plugin, rather than starting from scratch, why not fork this plugin and fixed up the problems that were being experienced. The other plugin actually misses quite a lot of functionality that this one has. For instance the other plugin does not deal at all with logging into the web site, when any kind of logged in scraping is required. This plugin also correctly handles two factor authentication for web site and api login.
I have submitted a PR to support viewing purchases in XBMC.
https://github.com/HenrikDK/youtube-xbmc.../issues/71
Because the purchases videos are all DRM protected it is not possible to view them inside XBMC, so I am using the same method that the Netflix plugin uses.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=178693
Perhaps others will find it useful, and potentially suggest improvements. I only have a single tv season on my purchases, so html pages with other configurations would assist me to
code up any additional functionality.