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

[hurtman]

Here's a screenshot from running UPnP2Podcast.exe "PlayOn:Hulu:+2" debug:

C:\SageTV\SageTV>UPnP2Podcast.exe "PlayOn:Hulu:+2" debug
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
<channel>
<title>Hulu</title>
<description>UPnP2Podcast v1.6 PlayOn:Hulu:+2 debug</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<itunes:summary>Hulu</itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle>Hulu</itunes:subtitle>
<item>
<title>No Videos Found</title>
<description>No videos found for UPnP search string (PlayOn:Hulu:+2). Sin
ce online videos are constantly being added and removed this could mean that the
re are just no videos available at this time. (This message is from the UPnP2Pod
cast Plug-in)</description>
<pubDate>1981-09-15</pubDate>
<itunes:subtitle>No videos found for UPnP search string (PlayOn:Hulu:+2).
Since online videos are constantly being added and removed this could mean that
there are just no videos available at this time. (This message is from the UPnP
2Podcast Plug-in)</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:duration>00:46:35</itunes:duration>
<enclosure url="http://127.0.0.1/fake.mpg" length="1668940000" type="video
/mpeg2" />
<media:content duration="2795" medium="video" fileSize="1668940000" url="h
ttp://127.0.0.1/fake.mpg" type="video/mpeg2">
<media:title>No Videos Found</media:title>
<media:description>No videos found for UPnP search string (PlayOn:Hulu:+
2). Since online videos are constantly being added and removed this could mean
that there are just no videos available at this time. (This message is from the
UPnP2Podcast Plug-in)</media:description>
<media:thumbnail url="http://127.0.0.1/fake.jpg"/>
</media:content>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>


Here's my tempfeed file:

The operation completed successfully. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/SageTV/SageTV/STVs/SageTV3/OnlineVideos/TempFee...

<media:content duration="1440" medium="video" fileSize="1068960000" url="http://127.0.0.1:63478/playon.luascripts-8...


I've went through the troubleshooting guide and still can't get any content out of Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, etc... I've tried turning off the firewalls. STVs are up to date. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

[scott2020]

Hi

Would you be able to post your UPnP2Podcast.log file from c:\program files\sagetv\sagetv directory? The log file immediately after you try to browse Hulu would be the most helpful.

[apschaefer]

Originally Posted by maxpower

Anyone else having trouble accessing MLB.TV games? There are no games returned when I choose "Today" or "Yesterday".

Same here, something must have changed on the PlayOn feed (maybe when they added multiple feeds for the local broadcasts for both teams?) I don't have trouble accessing anything else from PlayOn (and the PlayOn MLB feeds work from my Xbox).

[hurtman]

Scott,

Thanks for quick reply. I don't have any problems browsing and watching content from the generic Hulu genres. But I can't watch anything on channels like Nickelodeon and Nick jr. I've attached the file you asked for after trying to access Nickelodeon-Drake & Josh.

Thanks again for the help.

Jeff

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by hurtman

Scott,

Thanks for quick reply. I don't have any problems browsing and watching content from the generic Hulu genres. But I can't watch anything on channels like Nickelodeon and Nick jr. I've attached the file you asked for after trying to access Nickelodeon-Drake & Josh.

Thanks again for the help.

Jeff

You don't need the Scripts in the path anymore with the latest PlayON version, so it would just be

Playon:Nickelodeon:^Drake..amp..Josh$:+2

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by apschaefer

Same here, something must have changed on the PlayOn feed (maybe when they added multiple feeds for the local broadcasts for both teams?) I don't have trouble accessing anything else from PlayOn (and the PlayOn MLB feeds work from my Xbox).

Whats the full path you're seeing in Xbox for Today/Yesterday games?

[apschaefer]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Whats the full path you're seeing in Xbox for Today/Yesterday games?

There are now three feeds within each particular game, the path on the dashboard looks like this for the Red Sox Blue Jays game today:

Playon:mypcshostname/MLB/Today/Blue Jays @ Red Sox/Blue Jays @ Red Sox - $GAMESTATUS

Playon:mypcshostname/MLB/Today/Blue Jays @ Red Sox/Blue Jays @ Red Sox - $GAMESTATUS. Home

Playon:mypcshostname/MLB/Today/Blue Jays @ Red Sox/Blue Jays @ Red Sox - $GAMESTATUS. Visit

$GAMESTATUS = (I have seen First Pitch and Final written here)

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by apschaefer

There are now three feeds within each particular game, the path on the dashboard looks like this for the Red Sox Blue Jays game today

Update your feeds and give it a shot again.

[apschaefer]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Update your feeds and give it a shot again.

That did the trick, Thanks for the quick solution!

[hurtman]

Evilpenquin,

I made the changes you suggested and I'm still can't download any content. Here's the latest UPnP2Podcast file.

Thanks,
Jeff

[scott2020]

Originally Posted by hurtman

Evilpenquin,

I made the changes you suggested and I'm still can't download any content. Here's the latest UPnP2Podcast file.

Thanks,
Jeff

It doesn't look like there is a Drake and Josh listing under Nickelodeon1. There appears to be a Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon1 both on your playon server, and it is pulling in the Nickelodeon1 LUA script. I'm not sure what the difference is, but I would disable one of them and see what the list returns, and then try the other one at a time.

The UPNP browser program listed on the first or second post of this thread works well to show you exactly what is on the Playon server and how it is listed in the directory.

[hurtman]

Scott,

Thanks for the help. It's still not working. It seems that all of the Mediamall scripts are the ones not working. I can access Pandora, ABC, and just about everthing else. I just can't get anything like Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Playhouse Disney, Starcade, etc... The service is running and I'm able to download content and watch these channels on our Wii.

Thanks,
Jeff

[scott2020]

I was looking for NFL under ESPN and it seems to have changed paths too.

-ESPN -Categories -NFL

There are a lot of items under Categories now.

[herrdude]

Great work on this plugin! It works no problems with placeshifter. But when I use it with the mediamvp the hulu videos are half-screen. I read earlier in this forum to put the quality settings in playon at high. I have done this but it makes the video about 60% of the screen.

Is there any solution to this?

PS Canadians may be interested in knowing that hotspot shield works as a free vpn solution (although it's not great during primetime).

[FlyingDoc]

I have been using this plugin for some time (Thanks for all the development efforts you ROCK !)

This am tried to watch an episode from Hulu.... all seemed normal when navigating to the episodes l but when trying to play, right after the "Loading..." screen i got just a few seconds of the ABC tag video and then just a black screen. Tried several other feeds and episodes but essentially the same (for NBC the 'Tag' video does not even finish it just stops.

I did update play-on to the latest but that did not change this behavoir.
I tried updating the feeds and still the same. uPNP2podcast.log file attached for info.

Note it seems CBS programs are OK .... a well as Google Videos .... did Hulu change something??? All suggestions welcome.

Thanks

[zakrzep]

I can't get any channels to play on a placeshifter client outside of my network (i.e. from work). Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[mkanet]

Are you able to get to non-Playon related Online Videos to work (items listed before you installed the playon addon) such as Entertainment, HD Videos, Kids & Family, Science-Tech, etc?

Originally Posted by zakrzep

I can't get any channels to play on a placeshifter client outside of my network (i.e. from work). Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[zakrzep]

Yes. They play fine.

[zakrzep]

The PlayOn categories and show tilte, art, etc work, but when I click on the show, it says no videos.

[macsupergeek]

Has anyone successfully setup the TVLinks feed? I have the plugin installed and if I use a upnp browser I can see the feeds, the problem is that there is just too many to download the full list and I don't want all the feeds anyway, so I wanted to really break it down and define down to like the by letter feed or even specific shows, but I think the name of the feed is an issue as the sub folder to TVLinks is "TV:By Letter" and I think that colon is screwing up my search -- am I supposed to put like a ^ in there so that I can use the colon as a colon and not as a sub-folder marker?