[timgt]

Ok Popeye, I did the test but the results are probably not what you had hoped for.

1. I moved the last 3 files out of the incomplete folder and tried to play the movie. It would NOT Play.
2. I put the end files back and moved 3 files from the middle of the movie and it again would NOT play.
3. I then put everything back and removed only the 1st file, this made the directory not even list the movie.
4. I put everything back in the directory and the movie started right up and played fine.

It appears the movie won't even play unless it has all the parts in the directory.

I went a step further and did the exact same thing and then tried to play it with the program called NZBplayer for windows. I removed the last 3 files of the movie and loaded the movie into NZBplayer. The movie started playing just fine without the end of the movie, this leads me to believe there has got to be a solution somehow.

[timgt]

I also just tried something else which gave me hope. It appears its the built in DVDplayer that XBMC uses.

I created a file called playercorefactory.xml in my userdata directory and pointed it to use VLC as the default player since I knew that is what NZBplayer uses as its player. I then moved the last few rars out of the movie then played it from the incomplete folder and it started right up using VLC!!

The only thing I cannot figure out for the life of me is how to tell it to use VLC for the streaming in your plugins. I have it using VLC for all playback but when I use your nzb.su plugin and search for a show and try to play it, it starts playing with that crappy dvdplayer again! Do you know how to change this? If we can then the problem is solved (for me atleast)

EDIT: I did find this line in the default.py which I think is the reason dvdplayer starts but I have no clue what to change the line to
xbmc.Player( xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_DVDPLAYER ).play( raruri, item )

[Popeye]

I also just tried something else which gave me hope. It appears its the built in DVDplayer that XBMC uses.

I created a file called playercorefactory.xml in my userdata directory and pointed it to use VLC as the default player since I knew that is what NZBplayer uses as its player. I then moved the last few rars out of the movie then played it from the incomplete folder and it started right up using VLC!!

The only thing I cannot figure out for the life of me is how to tell it to use VLC for the streaming in your plugins. I have it using VLC for all playback but when I use your nzb.su plugin and search for a show and try to play it, it starts playing with that crappy dvdplayer again! Do you know how to change this? If we can then the problem is solved (for me atleast)

EDIT: I did find this line in the default.py which I think is the reason dvdplayer starts but I have no clue what to change the line to
xbmc.Player( xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_DVDPLAYER ).play( raruri, item )

Very interesting! have a look at http://xbmc.sourceforge.net/python-docs/...tml#Player and play around with different player options if you have the time

[timgt]

IT WORKED! Changing the code from DVDPLAYER to AUTO worked since I had VLC set as my default player.

Code:

xbmc.Player( xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_DVDPLAYER ).play( raruri, item )

to

xbmc.Player( xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_AUTO ).play( raruri, item )

However it appears the vlc player is only starting the movie and maybe playing the first RAR file cause I have tried 3 shows and all 3 stopped a few mins into the show. Im going crazy here.

[timgt]

Ok, I tried like 5 different players yesterday that are all capable of playing media from rar files. The one that showed the most promise was BSPlayer, it would play ANYTHING no matter how many parts of the rar were there as long as it had the first rar file. Other players didn't do as well, VLC included which suprised me.

The only thing is if I play anything directly from the incomplete folder it works flawlessly every time, but if I launch a show from your plugin it launches BSPlayer and it plays ONLY the first rar then stops. Why is this happening?? BSplayer is playing everything I can throw at it no matter what, EXCEPT if it is launched from your plugin (Even if I launch it in your plugin then go to the incomplete folder and manually watch it, it plays!). So your plugin is doing something wierd, maybe its those fake rars you said it does?? I'm lost and have no other ideas to try so hopefully you have some input.

[Zure]

I tried it at a windows machine. And with some files I get errors and other play fine.

This is the error log. It says it can't acces rar archive .71. That's strange because it only downloaded one rar. So it should be at .01 not .71.

http://pastebin.com/T5RWZFWR

/edit Maybe it's because the file is old. So don't pay to much attention to the above.

Then with an other movie I got this error:

http://pastebin.com/L2vxccY0

Note: When I download the same movie and then play it. The movie works fine. The same movie just won't stream.

Any idea's?

[timgt]

Popeye, I have 3 questions.

1. Are you still working on this project at all, haven't heard any replies in a while? If not disregard questions 2 and 3.

2. Is there any way for the nzb.su plugin to pull the movie and TV show data and pictures from imdb.com for movies and thetvdb.com for tv shows? Right now it seems to be pulling from nzb.su which is unreliable for this info (tv shows never have info or pics and some movies don't either).

3. Is there any way to implement http://www.nzbsrus.com into the main nzb plugin instead of nzbs.org or as a separate plugin like the nzb.su plugin? I was going to try to change some nzbs.org info to nzbsrus.com info but I am afraid I will screw what does work currently up.

[Popeye]

Popeye, I have 3 questions.

1. Are you still working on this project at all, haven't heard any replies in a while? If not disregard questions 2 and 3.

2. Is there any way for the nzb.su plugin to pull the movie and TV show data and pictures from imdb.com for movies and thetvdb.com for tv shows? Right now it seems to be pulling from nzb.su which is unreliable for this info (tv shows never have info or pics and some movies don't either).

3. Is there any way to implement http://www.nzbsrus.com into the main nzb plugin instead of nzbs.org or as a separate plugin like the nzb.su plugin? I was going to try to change some nzbs.org info to nzbsrus.com info but I am afraid I will screw what does work currently up.

1. Yes, but not that intense lately due to business trips etc..
2. yes, if some one develops the support. I only uses the information provided by nzb.su if you are not happy with the info talk to nzb.su
3. Sure, but I will not do it since I there is a way to implement the support as a new plugin.

[Popeye]

Ok, I tried like 5 different players yesterday that are all capable of playing media from rar files. The one that showed the most promise was BSPlayer, it would play ANYTHING no matter how many parts of the rar were there as long as it had the first rar file. Other players didn't do as well, VLC included which suprised me.

The only thing is if I play anything directly from the incomplete folder it works flawlessly every time, but if I launch a show from your plugin it launches BSPlayer and it plays ONLY the first rar then stops. Why is this happening?? BSplayer is playing everything I can throw at it no matter what, EXCEPT if it is launched from your plugin (Even if I launch it in your plugin then go to the incomplete folder and manually watch it, it plays!). So your plugin is doing something wierd, maybe its those fake rars you said it does?? I'm lost and have no other ideas to try so hopefully you have some input.

I'm not sure I can follow all your different tests. Are they done with complete or incomplete rar sets? Also, the code to play incomplete rar sets is due to lack of support in XBMC, so please add a support ticket (track) if you are not happy with the current implementation...

I tried it at a windows machine. And with some files I get errors and other play fine.

This is the error log. It says it can't acces rar archive .71. That's strange because it only downloaded one rar. So it should be at .01 not .71.

http://pastebin.com/T5RWZFWR

/edit Maybe it's because the file is old. So don't pay to much attention to the above.

Then with an other movie I got this error:

http://pastebin.com/L2vxccY0

Note: When I download the same movie and then play it. The movie works fine. The same movie just won't stream.

Any idea's?

It was an mkv file. I have had issues with it but havent look into it yet...

[Zure]

I'm not sure I can follow all your different tests. Are they done with complete or incomplete rar sets? Also, the code to play incomplete rar sets is due to lack of support in XBMC, so please add a support ticket (track) if you are not happy with the current implementation...



It was an mkv file. I have had issues with it but havent look into it yet...

Ok thank you for looking into it

Popeye, I have 3 questions.

1. Are you still working on this project at all, haven't heard any replies in a while? If not disregard questions 2 and 3.

2. Is there any way for the nzb.su plugin to pull the movie and TV show data and pictures from imdb.com for movies and thetvdb.com for tv shows? Right now it seems to be pulling from nzb.su which is unreliable for this info (tv shows never have info or pics and some movies don't either).

3. Is there any way to implement http://www.nzbsrus.com into the main nzb plugin instead of nzbs.org or as a separate plugin like the nzb.su plugin? I was going to try to change some nzbs.org info to nzbsrus.com info but I am afraid I will screw what does work currently up.

For nzbsrus you can use this plugin:

https://github.com/Mar2zz/xbmc-newznab

[timgt]

Zure, that plugin you linked me to is for newznab enabled sites. nzbsrus is not one of those unfortunately.

[Zure]

Zure, that plugin you linked me to is for newznab enabled sites. nzbsrus is not one of those unfortunately.

What you can do is use the sabnzbd plugin for xbmc (to control sabnzbd). There you can enter your nzbsrus account. Then after you selected a file, you can go to the incomplete folder from this plugin and stream it the same way.

[ckergald]

I modified the version 0.0.9 code to work with a private newznab site I have running on one of my servers. I then added a new menu heading titled TV Channels.

Inside there I created entries for most of the networks I enjoy, and inside each of these networks I've added individual tv shows, grabbing a poster from tvdb. I accomplished this by adding the rageid to each search. it took some time to set it up but's working good for me. With some modification it should be able to work with nzb.su.

Anyone that wants to take a look or modify it can find it here
http://pastebin.com/KV68DgNH

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
ps nzb.su is a much better index than my private one but I'm cheap and don't have a premium account there.

[Zure]

I modified the version 0.0.9 code to work with a private newznab site I have running on one of my servers. I then added a new menu heading titled TV Channels.

Inside there I created entries for most of the networks I enjoy, and inside each of these networks I've added individual tv shows, grabbing a poster from tvdb. I accomplished this by adding the rageid to each search. it took some time to set it up but's working good for me. With some modification it should be able to work with nzb.su.

Anyone that wants to take a look or modify it can find it here
http://pastebin.com/KV68DgNH

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
ps nzb.su is a much better index than my private one but I'm cheap and don't have a premium account there.

Great addition to the plugin! I managed to get it to work with nzb.su. Now I just need to find out how I can extend the number of items displayed. I think it's limited at 100.

[ckergald]

it is limited to 100, and I believe that limitation is part of the api in newznab / nzb.su

I got arround it by adding seasons for items that were returning more than 100 results, so it's like &rid=1111&season=2