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Q: My Mediaportal Config always tells me that there is a problem with OnlineVideos.dll or "An error occured while loading the plugin file OnlineVideos.MediaPortal1.dll It is broken or incompatible with the current version of Media Portal and wont be loaded" error pops up, what should i do?
A: Simply delete the File OnlineVideos.dll from Plugins\Windows. MAKE SURE YOU DELETE IT - renaming it doesn't work!
Q: How can I add new sites?
A: That depends on the website you are adding but basically it's going to be one of these:
Q: Site X is missing from my list
A: you have to do the auto-update (when entering onlinevideos from mediaportal for the first time) first.
If all goes well, the onlinevideosites.xml (located in the programdata\... directory) should be updated, and then you should be able to select the watch-series from the "manage sites" menu.
Q: I often get a Windows popup about rights
A: During install/setup of Windows Media Player you probably disabled "download usage rights automatically when I play a file". Enable it in WMP settings.
Q: The problem is that whatever I try to play a video, it hangs in the buffering. Often it hangs Mediaportal all together and I have to force shutdown. Otherwise I can press the STOP button and I come back to the starting screen of OnlineVideos
A: Not a fix but a work around, If you skip forward or back the video starts playing again.
Q: Site X doesn't work properly
A: This usually means that something has changed on the site, or the site is down - try in a web browser first and if it's working please note it in the official thread and it'll get looked at in due course
Q: Is it possible to move the configuration for OnlineVideos to another computer in an easy way?
A: Inside MediaPortal.xml is a section named onlinevideos -> copy to MediaPortal.xml on other pc
Copy OnlineVideoSites.xml to other pc.
Copy Favorites Database and Thumbs if wanted.
Q: My Mediaportal Config always tells me that there is a problem with OnlineVideos.dll or "An error occured while loading the plugin file OnlineVideos.MediaPortal1.dll It is broken or incompatible with the current version of Media Portal and wont be loaded" error pops up, what should i do?
A: Simply delete the File OnlineVideos.dll from Plugins\Windows. MAKE SURE YOU DELETE IT - renaming it doesn't work!
Q: How can I add new sites?
A: That depends on the website you are adding but basically it's going to be one of these:
- The website you'd like to add supports RSS feeds that link directly to files that can be played (like mp4 or flv) -> simply create a new Generic site and add the rss feeds in the plugin configuration
- The website only offers HTML but you know about regular expressions -> create a new Generic site and use the GenericSiteCreator tool (or any other regex helper tool) to find the expressions for parsing the required infos off the html (they can be set on the Advanced button)
- The playback urls are hidden very good and need some tricky logic or the site offers an open API you can base your site on -> you'll have to create a new siteutil in C# (look at the code there are enough utils to use as sample)
Q: Site X is missing from my list
A: you have to do the auto-update (when entering onlinevideos from mediaportal for the first time) first.
If all goes well, the onlinevideosites.xml (located in the programdata\... directory) should be updated, and then you should be able to select the watch-series from the "manage sites" menu.
Q: I often get a Windows popup about rights
A: During install/setup of Windows Media Player you probably disabled "download usage rights automatically when I play a file". Enable it in WMP settings.
Q: The problem is that whatever I try to play a video, it hangs in the buffering. Often it hangs Mediaportal all together and I have to force shutdown. Otherwise I can press the STOP button and I come back to the starting screen of OnlineVideos
A: Not a fix but a work around, If you skip forward or back the video starts playing again.
Q: Site X doesn't work properly
A: This usually means that something has changed on the site, or the site is down - try in a web browser first and if it's working please note it in the official thread and it'll get looked at in due course
Q: Is it possible to move the configuration for OnlineVideos to another computer in an easy way?
A: Inside MediaPortal.xml is a section named onlinevideos -> copy to MediaPortal.xml on other pc
Copy OnlineVideoSites.xml to other pc.
Copy Favorites Database and Thumbs if wanted.