Plugin: TWiT.TV Video Podcasts

[shadeblue.com]

Support & Comments Thread for TWiT.TV Video Podcasts



Add the TWiT.TV video podcasts to your list of online services menu in SageTV.
Leo Laporte's network of popular podcasts including: This Week In Tech, Tech News Today, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, The Tech Guy, and many more.

Please visit www.twit.tv for a complete listing of podcasts.

After installation you will find these feeds listed in the Online, More Online Service menu.





Available in the SageTV Plugins Repository.

[PLUCKYHD]

Nice!!

[shadeblue.com]

Now available for installation in SageTV 7 via the Plugin Manager.

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Nice!!

Thanks! I find myself watching some of these on a daily basis now that I have them listed in SageTV.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by shadeblue.com

Thanks! I find myself watching some of these on a daily basis now that I have them listed in SageTV.

I definitely will as I already watched some at work.

[Opus4]

Some of these are already in the included feeds. I can look into adding the rest for the next online video update, unless you prefer having them all in your custom category?

- Andy

[shadeblue.com]

Sure having them built in would be better :-)

Some of the existing feeds listed in the "Science-Tech" category are outdated. For example, "Systm" was canceled more than a year ago. PBS e^2 has not had any new content since 2008 and The Hidden Epidemic since 2007. Is it possible to remove some of these outdated feeds? It is my opinion that these clutter up the category with useless content feeds since they seem to lead to dead ends.

Content from TWiT.TV, REV3, and a few other podcasters that are still around may be more relevant.

PS: I know that many of the REV3 shows are already listed.

Thanks, SB

[Email68]

Very cool! Thanks for making this.

Anyway to add their live.twit.tv feed?

-Tim

[Opus4]

Like other issues in SageTV, submit the problem feeds to SageTV (and they would get forwarded on to me). I would probably also see posts reporting such feeds on the forum. I made a note of the above post for future reference when I next update the feeds.

A lot of those outdated feeds still provide results, so the automatic check for dead feeds won't find them.

- Andy

[shadeblue.com]

Originally Posted by Email68

Very cool! Thanks for making this.

Anyway to add their live.twit.tv feed?

-Tim

Done

Release 7.1

• Added TWiT Live Video Feed (Low Quality)
• Added TWiT Live Video Feed (Hi Quality) *

* Please note that at this time, the "Hi Quality" feed is not working properly.
You can see this problem directly on the http://live.twit.tv site when you select the Hi quality BitGravity feed.
So the problem lies in the feed, not the link.

*** UPDATE 2010-11-14
FYI, I checked today and the "Hi Quality" feed is working properly now.

[Email68]

Thanks again!

Can't wait to try it when I get home.

-Tim

Originally Posted by shadeblue.com

Done

Release 7.1

• Added TWiT Live Video Feed (Low Quality)
• Added TWiT Live Video Feed (Hi Quality) *

* Please note that at this time, the "Hi Quality" feed is not working properly.
You can see this problem directly on the http://live.twit.tv site when you select the Hi quality BitGravity feed.
So the problem lies in the feed, not the link.

[setherd]

anyone else having issues? all feeds play a few seconds for me then stop and jump backto the previous screen. even if I first pause it and let it buffer a lot of the show then play. the same thing happens

[Techno]

I have been useing this for a long time and can confirm it still works fine for me.
I was hoping to find a way to edit the shows in the feed.

[tvmaster2]

has anyone found a way to edit the shows so the current list can be included? Is anyone still developing for this app?
thanks

[tvmaster2]

anyone using this app anymore? If so, have you got the LIVE stream link working? If so, can you post the properties url here
thanks

[shadeblue.com]

You can modify the following two files to update your TWiT feeds:

<sagetv>/STVs/SageTV7/CustomOnlineVideoLinks_TWiT.properties
<sagetv>/STVs/SageTV7/CustomOnlineVideoUIText_TWiT.properties

[shadeblue.com]

Version 7.2 has just been updated in the plugin repository.

• This update removes all feeds for canceled shows/feeds.
• This update adds feeds for all current shows.
• This update fixes all feed thumbnail images.
• This update upgrades all video feeds to HD quality.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by shadeblue.com

Version 7.2 has just been updated in the plugin repository.

• This update removes all feeds for canceled shows.
• This update adds feeds for call current shows.
• This update fixes all feed thumbnail images.
• This update upgrades all video feeds to HD.

WooHoo! Thanks, great news

[matt91]

Thanks. Looks interesting.

Are these files supposed to fully download before playing, or start playing during the download?

I haven't tinkered with it much, but it did take 9 minutes for this to start playing:

Sat 4/23 7:53:26.599 [FileDownload@4fea6f56] Detected MP4 ISO stream downloading...
Sat 4/23 8:01:22.096 [FileDownload@4fea6f56] Read -1 bytes from the URL stream; download has completed
Sat 4/23 8:01:22.225 [FileDownload@4fea6f56] VF.submitJob(VFJob[InactiveFile r=0.0 t=0 file=null ifn=/tmp/OnlineVideo7915133189666659298.flv])
Sat 4/23 8:01:22.225 [FileDownload@4fea6f56] VF.submitJob(VFJob[InactiveFile r=0.0 t=0 file=null ifn=/tmp/OnlineVideo7915133189666659298.flv])
Sat 4/23 8:01:22.226 [FileDownload@4fea6f56] Download completed for files server=http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp4/cdn.twit.tv/video/twig/twig0348/twig0348_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 src=null dest=/tmp/OnlineVideo7915133189666659298.flv abort=false

Not sure if that is by design, or if the original video file has something to do with it.

thanks
Matt

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by shadeblue.com

Version 7.2 has just been updated in the plugin repository.

• This update removes all feeds for canceled shows/feeds.
• This update adds feeds for all current shows.
• This update fixes all feed thumbnail images.
• This update upgrades all video feeds to HD quality.

There's only one feed there I didn't see - the studio LIVE feed, which used to have a link. Is it there and I just missed it?