[dshorrosh]

New question - is it possible to change the order in which the channels display?  I've edited what is hidden and logos and so forth, but would like to change the order in which the channels appear.

Thanks,

David

[matthuisman]

use channel numbers. you can set those via context menu in merge > manage tv

[dshorrosh]

Sorry to be a n00b but I don't see that option available from Configure in the IP Merge add-on or right-click on channel > Manage.

And sorry to pile on, all Live TV (Hulu) is freezing now after a few minutes.  Log = HTTPS://PASTE.KODI.TV/HULOMAGECO.

I'll hit the tip jar again after this gets sorted out!

[R.O.H.]

@dshorrosh: Heads up: your log doesn't show up. Check the link or reupload.

@matthuisman:

I've also got a question Matt:

I noticed Hulu is using lots of landscape images. For example at "TV for You". However the same images are shown as posters in your add-on.

Is there something I can do to use the landscape one instead of poster? I know I could scrape the items to the library and use any type of image but here I'm talking about the Hulu add-on itself.

Appreciate any help!

[dshorrosh]

Very strange, the link works on my phone - try again: https://paste.kodi.tv/hulomageco

[R.O.H.]

ah yes, it was the dot at the end

[dshorrosh]

Any updates on this?  The freezing problem persists.  Anybody else having problems with this?

Thanks in advance.

[matthuisman]

there is a github issue here that you can monitor:
https://github.com/matthuisman/slyguy.addons/issues/488
https://github.com/xbmc/inputstream.adap...ssues/1290

[dapharsyde]

there is a github issue here that you can monitor:
https://github.com/matthuisman/slyguy.addons/issues/488
https://github.com/xbmc/inputstream.adap...ssues/1290

I'm the tester that opened both of these issues.  To clarify, there appears to be 2 different (likely unrelated?) issues - the HTTP 410 errors after < 5 minutes happens on all channels at all times.  Since it happens regularly and repeatedly, I assume it has something to do with authentication timeouts so I opened the issue under the slyguy/hulu project. 

The other issue appears sporadically, only on the ESPN channel on certain broadcasts, and stops the stream after < 30 seconds.  This appears in the logfiles as a "RefreshLiveSegments" error in inputstream.adaptive, which is why I opened that issue under the IA project.

[dshorrosh]

The first issue is exactly what I'm experiencing.  Thanks for working on it.  FWIW it's only the live channels, streaming shows from the Hulu library is solid.  Will I get the fixed release automatically or do I need to download anything?

[dapharsyde]

The first issue is exactly what I'm experiencing.  Thanks for working on it.  FWIW it's only the live channels, streaming shows from the Hulu library is solid.  Will I get the fixed release automatically or do I need to download anything?

The fix for the HTTP 410 errors will not be backported to Nexus, so that means you'll eventually need to upgrade to Omega to see this fixed.

[dshorrosh]

Got it.  I read the GitHub and understand the 410 issue will be included with Omega when released.  Fortunately the issue seems to be only with Live TV, the rest of the Hulu add-on works fine.

I appreciate y'all's work.

[dapharsyde]

The hard part is knowing where Kodi is currently playing.

You could detect the manifest contains the ad break, but how do you know when Kodi is playing it... You can't do it on when that segment gets requested as IA could be caching ahead or the user may have just navigated away or paused. It's a nightmare. Inputstream and Kodi together would know what's playing and if there was some sort of marker on those periods, it could simply mute

Sorry to bring up an old idea again, but while looking at the manifest files, I noticed the Periods in which advertisements appear are explicitly marked like so:

<Period id="1688639866" start="PT195017866.141S">
    <AssetIdentifier schemeIdUri="urn:com:hulu:asset-id:2016" value="huluAd"></AssetIdentifier>

When these sections are found in the manifest file, would it be possible to replace the SegmentTemplate with our own content, redirecting the plugin to play a locally hosted blank/"looped" mp4 file instead of the ad?  Then it wouldn't matter where Kodi/IA are in playback, but whenever it does get to this point, it will play nothing in place of the ad.

[R.O.H.]

@dshorrosh: Heads up: your log doesn't show up. Check the link or reupload.

@matthuisman:

I've also got a question Matt:

I noticed Hulu is using lots of landscape images. For example at "TV for You". However the same images are shown as posters in your add-on.

Is there something I can do to use the landscape one instead of poster? I know I could scrape the items to the library and use any type of image but here I'm talking about the Hulu add-on itself.

Appreciate any help!

@matthuisman

hi Matt, you may have overread my question from a couple weeks ago. I have also experimented with 

xml:
<texture>$INFO[ListItem.Art(landscape)]</texture>

but no luck. 

Any hope for landscape thumbs? Same with Paramount. On Disney I can choose the art type which is nice.

Thank you!!

[matthuisman]

best to open issues here otherwise they will get overlooked
https://github.com/matthuisman/slyguy.addons/issues