Plugin: PlayOn in Online Services (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon VOD, etc.)

[skyeclad]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

What i'd like to see is premium tier of service, on par with Netflix's monthly pricing model ($10-15), that offered higher quality streams and a bigger archive of content (perhaps the entire season to date in addition to a bigger and more complete selection of old content). I'd happily subscribe to that.

What if Hulu decided to charge $10 for exactly what they provide for today with no premium addition? What would mostly older movies and mostly older TV shows with 5 episodes of recent shows be worth to you...in standard definition?

Personally as-is I'd pay $4.99(maybe), I'd go to $9.99 with entire season content and up to $14.99 if they offered entire season, new releases and decent HD content. However, at that point I'd have to ask myself why stick with Netflix.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Hey, I've got another test version for people (same as before, just replace the .exe).

Chagelist:

• I had to rewrite the auto-update stuff so that it could check to see what plug-ins you have before downloading those feeds. Right now I've just got Southpark (which is currently broken) and FoodNetwork. But in the future I plan on taking the feeds people give me and distributing them like this.
• Put in a workaround specifically for a weird case were a few Netflix movies are showing up in individual folders rather than in the main list.

Can I get a few people to download/install this update then i'll try out a some feed updates/additions over the next few days.

Thanks to the people who tried out my new version, if you've been watching PlayON feeds tonight you should have gotten some feed updates. To check to see if you got them...

• For everyone: ABC should have the thumbnail for FlashForward and the Brothers & Sisters feed should now pull down videos.
• Southpark Plug-in: If you have Southpark plug-in installed you should see it under Comedy Central. (The videos aren't working for me, but that's an issue with PlayOn plug-in)
• FoodNetwork Plug-in: If you have FoodNetwork plug-in installed you should see a new menu item for it on the main page.

Keep in mind for them to show up you may need to leave/re-enter the menu.

[petereader]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Thanks to the people who tried out my new version, if you've been watching PlayON feeds tonight you should have gotten some feed updates. To check to see if you got them...

• For everyone: ABC should have the thumbnail for FlashForward and the Brothers & Sisters feed should now pull down videos.
• Southpark Plug-in: If you have Southpark plug-in installed you should see it under Comedy Central. (The videos aren't working for me, but that's an issue with PlayOn plug-in)
• FoodNetwork Plug-in: If you have FoodNetwork plug-in installed you should see a new menu item for it on the main page.

Keep in mind for them to show up you may need to leave/re-enter the menu.

Thats funny, I happened to see the FlashForward thumbnail tonight and decided to start watching the series. Didn't realize that was your handy work. I can definitely say that auto-updates are working for me. Just looked and Brothers & Sisters showed up as well. Congrats and thanks, great success here

[Suntan]

Originally Posted by corwiniii

You can set playon to start with Windows. That is how mine works. I'm using Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit and it all works flawlessly. Worst case you can setup Windows to "wake on LAN" or something and/or use Remote Desktop Connection to hit the box in the basement without having to go down there.

Alright sweet. Once I get the new PC built I’ll have to try it out.

If I find I really use it a lot, I’ll figure a way to tie in and remote start the PC in the basement with the universal remote upstairs.

-Suntan

[simonen]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Thanks to the people who tried out my new version, if you've been watching PlayON feeds tonight you should have gotten some feed updates. To check to see if you got them...

• For everyone: ABC should have the thumbnail for FlashForward and the Brothers & Sisters feed should now pull down videos.

Keep in mind for them to show up you may need to leave/re-enter the menu.

Unfortunately, mine has not updated. I had previously installed version 1.3 and am no longer using the STVi (running the most current STV). I replaced upnp2postcast.exe with the test one, still no love.

[gplasky]

Make sure you actually went in and watched something. (I think) Mine updated fine but I made sure and started to watch Lost. (As an example. It can be anything.)

Gerry

[HelenWeathers]

Mine is working as well (the download from yesterday), but I still have the upnp2postcast STVi loaded.

Is that no longer necessary?

simonen I had previously installed version 1.3 and am no longer using the STVi

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by HelenWeathers

Mine is working as well (the download from yesterday), but I still have the upnp2postcast STVi loaded.

Is that no longer necessary?

No. The core SageTV application now supports this plugin fully. Nothing needs to be imported but you need to unzip all the files to the correct directories.

Gerry

[HelenWeathers]

Thanks, Gerry.

EDIT: I've been spending too much time watching TV and not enough time at the forum.

[KJake]

FYI Everyone, a PlayOn license is $10 off right now thru Holloween night with the coupon code OCT09.

[simonen]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Make sure you actually went in and watched something. (I think) Mine updated fine but I made sure and started to watch Lost. (As an example. It can be anything.)

Gerry

That didn't seem to do the trick either. Does it matter if I edited some of the feeds in the zExtras.properties file?

Everything else works fine: Netflix and Hulu

I assume this works by downloading new properties files directly into the OnlineVideos folder. Maybe I will check my permissions so that isn't preventing the app from replacing the files.

[-=Jeff=-]

Installed the latest program..

Brothers & sisters shows no video feeds but FlashForward shows some
I will install the South park plugin to see if that works next

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by simonen

That didn't seem to do the trick either. Does it matter if I edited some of the feeds in the zExtras.properties file?

Everything else works fine: Netflix and Hulu

I assume this works by downloading new properties files directly into the OnlineVideos folder. Maybe I will check my permissions so that isn't preventing the app from replacing the files.

Try just running UPnP2Podcast manually and then post UPnP2Podcast.log here for me to check out.

[simonen]

EP, here is my log file.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by simonen

EP, here is my log file.

The downloading seems to be working and it says its trying to write to the files. Can you delete all of the property files, run it again, and see if it recreates them?

[simonen]

No, it is not creating new files. I searched my drive to see if they were showing up somewhere else and nothing came up.

Here is their normal location on my C drive: C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\OnlineVideos

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by simonen

No, it is not creating new files. I searched my drive to see if they were showing up somewhere else and nothing came up.

Here is their normal location on my C drive: C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\OnlineVideos

I'll send you a version with better logging tonight to see if we can figure out why its not working. You're on XP so I can't imagine there would be any permission issues.

edit: Also, here's a place to manually download the feeds if you lost them

[simonen]

Thanks for the help.

[evilpenguin]

Hey, try downloading this build and running the same test (delete my feeds, run the .exe, and post the log).

[chrisc983]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

I'll send you a version with better logging tonight to see if we can figure out why its not working. You're on XP so I can't imagine there would be any permission issues.

edit: Also, here's a place to manually download the feeds if you lost them

Do these get updated automatically or do we have to do it manually?