Plugin :: Movie Showtimes

[pjpjpjpj]

Ah, the one movie that I randomly clicked into probably didn't have a trailer available. I'll check it out when I get home. Thanks!

Did I gather from previous posts that access to Apple trailers is not working in Sage anymore? I loved how the old MovieTimes plugin used to download the 1080p trailers overnight and have them saved for instant access.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

Did I gather from previous posts that access to Apple trailers is not working in Sage anymore? I loved how the old MovieTimes plugin used to download the 1080p trailers overnight and have them saved for instant access.

Yep, i'll never support pre-downloading trailers. If Sage can't stream them, I won't use them. That being said, there are some very simple changes Sage can implement to make streaming apple trailers possible and once I have the time i'll put together a detailed feature request for them.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

Did I gather from previous posts that access to Apple trailers is not working in Sage anymore?

If your referring to the Ortus Trailers plugin then yes it is still working and was updated by Apple last week with 59 new trailers....its not really all that compatible with this plugin as alot of the trailers are future films not out in theatres yet.

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Yep, i'll never support pre-downloading trailers. If Sage can't stream them, I won't use them. That being said, there are some very simple changes Sage can implement to make streaming apple trailers possible and once I have the time i'll put together a detailed feature request for them.

Not quite sure what your after but its quite easy to stream Apple trailers with the current beta versions (if you want to edit the STV a little that is) .....we worked with Sage in getting some of these features included and use them in the above mentioned plugin along with our own Apple downloading system.

Cheers

Ben

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by jaminben

If your referring to the Ortus Trailers plugin then yes it is still working and was updated by Apple last week with 59 new trailers....its not really all that compatible with this plugin as alot of the trailers are future films not out in theatres yet.

Yep, Ortus Trails plug-in works/looks great and is highly recommended for impressing guests

Originally Posted by jaminben

Not quite what your after but its quite easy to stream Apple trailers with the current beta versions (if you want to edit the STV a little that is) .....we worked with Sage in getting some of these features included and use them in the above mentioned plugin along with our own Apple downloading system.

Ahh,

StartBackgroundFileDownload(java.lang.String ServerAddress, java.lang.String SourceFile, java.io.File DestFile, java.util.Properties RequestProperties)

is exactly what i'm talking about, maybe I can get apple trailers going. What's the format for the RequestProperties object?

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Ahh. is exactly what i'm talking about, maybe I can get apple trailers going. What's the format for the RequestProperties object?

You'll have to excuse me if I dont understand your question fully but the main reason Apple downloads wont work is due to you needing a valid UserAgent so we can fool them into thinking we're running a browser.....so in our plugin code I set it up like so:

var = new_java_util_Properties()
SageAppleUserAgent = java_util_Properties_setProperty(var,"User-Agent","QuickTime/7.6.5 (qtver=7.6.5;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)")
AddGlobalContext("SageAppleUserAgent", var)

Now all we need to do is specify the link to download and where to download the file....this goes like:

DownloadResult = StartBackgroundFileDownload(TrailerURL, null, FilePath + TrailerName, SageAppleUserAgent)

And thats about it.......hopefully I've explained it ok as I'm not all that good at this coding stuff and it took me awhile to work out myself and I haven't really looked at it since release.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Cheers

Ben

P.s I liked your plugin as well.....it even works for us in the UK

EDIT:

Oh, the other cool thing you can do with Apple is the abitity to specify a trailer size (720p, 1080p etc) and all that depends on is the end part of the URL.....so http://trailers.apple.com/movies/wb/...tlr1_h720p.mov could become http://trailers.apple.com/movies/wb/...lr1_h1080p.mov or whatever format you want....pretty easy

You can also see in the URL "tlr1" which refers to the trailer amount for this particuilar movie, another one is "clip1" or "fte1".....in theory there are quite a few of these and they can all be downloaded/streamed...... I never bothered with these as it got abit too much but I have some nice links to other scrapers if you want to take a look at how others do it and make use of these extra trailers.

[evilpenguin]

Yep, that's exactly what I needed, although I just now found a nice website that's easy to scrape, has simple urls, and links to high quality trailers that can be downloaded directly.

http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/sco...-vs-the-world/

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Yep, that's exactly what I needed, although I just now found a nice website that's easy to scrape, has simple urls, and links to high quality trailers that can be downloaded directly.

http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/sco...-vs-the-world/

I looked at that one as well, they do offer some Apple downloads but alot of them are not direct download links. I thought about using their Yahoo links but that got abit complicated with unpacking something or other before you goto a valid link.......can't quite remember now. You also need to scrape the following page to get to the download, seemed alot of hassle when I can goto Apple and get everything straight up from an xml file they provide....well not provide but is there if you know where to look.

Cheers

Ben

EDIT

Actually that page doesn't look too bad.....perhaps I was thinking of another one.

[pjpjpjpj]

EP,

I checked on my plugin and it's not loading the info for all the movies (under "show movies", not "show theaters"). It's loading 5 out of about 20+ movies (and two of those are Avatar and Avatar IMAX). The other movies just have the movie title, with no thumbnail and no plot description.

Of the 5 movies that did load thumbnail and description, one which has the "trailer" asterisk does not have the "see trailer" option when I click into it.

Have you seen any instance of some of these thumbnails/descriptions taking a long time to load? I gave them probably a minute, and nothing showed up.

[evilpenguin]

Zipcode and log, please

[saltlyck2]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

EP,

I checked on my plugin and it's not loading the info for all the movies (under "show movies", not "show theaters"). It's loading 5 out of about 20+ movies (and two of those are Avatar and Avatar IMAX). The other movies just have the movie title, with no thumbnail and no plot description.

Of the 5 movies that did load thumbnail and description, one which has the "trailer" asterisk does not have the "see trailer" option when I click into it.

Have you seen any instance of some of these thumbnails/descriptions taking a long time to load? I gave them probably a minute, and nothing showed up.

Same here. I do have the see trailer link though. But when I click it I get some playback exception error. Zip code 29451

[evilpenguin]

Same deal, what movie's trailer didn't work and I need a log.

[evilpenguin]

Sneaking out *one* last update before I move on...

Movie Times v1.2:

• Added support for more trailers thanks to http://www.hd-trailers.net/
• Added settings menu for changing location and selecting streaming resolution
• Added trailers for a limited selection of upcoming movies
• Lots of code clean up

[pjpjpjpj]

EP,
Zip is 45242 (I've also tried 45241 - I live right on the line). Log attached.

As mentioned, only a few of the movies have posters and descriptions. The entries all seem to function okay though (you can click in and get theaters and times). Just wondering why a lot of the movies don't have posters and descriptions and the asterisk for trailers.

[evilpenguin]

That's odd, i'm using that zipcode and everything is working. Can you try two things for me:

1. Zip up the files (should be a bunch of .cache files) in...
   

   ...\SageTV\SageOnlineServicesEXEs\MovieTimes\

   And then post that zip on the thread.
2. Delete all the files in...
   

   ...\SageTV\SageOnlineServicesEXEs\MovieTimes\

   And try loading the movie list again.

Also, I removed the asterisk since most everything has a trailer now.

[pjpjpjpj]

EP,
I was about to send you the zip file, but deleting the files and reloading fixed it! Thanks!

One other thing, though. When you go to the setup screen, and choose to set up your location, and enter it, that takes you back to the setup screen again. Then, say, you choose "1080p trailers" and hit enter. This takes you back to the setup screen again. If, at that point, you hit the "back" button, it takes you back to the "enter location" screen again, instead of taking you back to the "sort by theater, sort by movie, etc." choices. In other words, if you do more than one "setup" thing at once, the only way out is to hit the "home" key or some other key ("guide", etc.). Backing out takes you back through the last things you did. Does that make sense?

Also, I know this is something for down the road, but I would love to have the ability to download and temporarily store the trailers, either doing a manual download and having it keep them until the movie was no longer showing, or else having a scheduled event to check daily. Downloading the 1080p trailers takes a looooong time when you are waiting to watch.

Otherwise, great job, it's nice to have this plugin back.

[evilpenguin]

Please do post that zip file, i'd still like to know what went wrong originally.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Please do post that zip file, i'd still like to know what went wrong originally.

I think this is it.
Everything is still working fine, though, since I deleted and re-populated the folder.

[pvr599]

Originally Posted by Crunch

EP,
Thanks for this. Installed and pulled up details no problem.

Is there a way to increase the distance I can pull the theaters from?

We have no theaters in our zip code, but each side of us has about 4.

Sometimes we want to shop and go to movies to the west of us, sometimes we want to go to the east side of town. Currently I see 9 theaters, but they are not the ones we go to if going to larger malls.

The two we mainly go to (1 east and 1 west) are a few more miles on. If I use zip code to west of us I get them but not ones to east... you get the picture

Edit - sent address details etc as requested in PM.. thanks

Was wondering if this was added or if there is a way to do this. Maybe being able to add favorite theaters?
Thanks!!

[pjpjpjpj]

pvr599,
This should have been remedied in the last update. EP changed the site that he grabs info from, and it should be grabbing a larger area now.

[Crunch]

My issues all resolved with latest release.
I did have to...

Delete all the files in...

Code:
...\SageTV\SageOnlineServicesEXEs\MovieTimes\

And reload the movie list again.

to show images for some shows.

Thanks EP.
My wife was very impressed that it is now so easy to see whats on at local movies. The ability of see trailers topped it off. "How much did THAT cost?" "Nothing sweety pie, all part of SageTv"

So with 'info caller ID popup' and other tricks SageTV does she is thinking SageTv is not that bad. Only hope Cable Card stuff with HDHR etc will work with SageTV at some point and we will be set for years to come.