request - megavideo and reconnection support (1 Viewer)

[bombus]

hi all!
thank u for your great work!

I've got an idea for the new version:
as long as megavideo was supported by this plugin , I've found boring using my mouse (or my keyboard) and my browser to get to my router page and do the reconnection every time i spend more than 70 min watching megavideo's videos...
there is a program that can do the reconnection by itself (jdownloader).
I've found that curl (cURL and libcurl) is the library used by this app for their reconnection script... it would be a good thing to have a menu item inside the plugin which can run a bat or exe file for reconnection (if u download curl it can be used to do this thing, remenber to search in google).
a better way would be an integrated script similar to the program i mentioned million times (with an editor cause every router has a different script)...

sorry about my very bad english...

guys please post under this thread if u think it could be useful!

 

[doskabouter]

What exactly should that curl program do then?

Am I right to assume it should send a http-request to your router telling it to renew it's ip-address, so that megavideo thinks you're a new user?

 

[Quarter]

What exactly should that curl program do then?

Am I right to assume it should send a http-request to your router telling it to renew it's ip-address, so that megavideo thinks you're a new user?

I think that's what he's implying, Mega-video is a pain in the a** with the limit they give you. Even some series are cut short when you download them, So if you do make something can you extend it to watch-series and Watch-Movies

 

[bombus]

What exactly should that curl program do then?

Am I right to assume it should send a http-request to your router telling it to renew it's ip-address, so that megavideo thinks you're a new user?

I think that's what he's implying, Mega-video is a pain in the a** with the limit they give you. Even some series are cut short when you download them, So if you do make something can you extend it to watch-series and Watch-Movies

yea that's right! that would be a good thing ... and we cannot use megavideo account in mediaportal ...
but i think that the only way it could work is to reconnect between two videos not too long...

 

[doskabouter]

Well, if you have a megavideo account, maybe that's possible to include?

 

[bombus]

I don't have a megavideo account, but isn't it harder to introduce this feature (cause i think it changes the way you get the video url) than to add a part of another plugin inside online videos (you can simply add a editable string with the link to an exe or a bat file inside your hd and launch the exe in mediaportal) ?

I don't know anything (more or less) about programming but I hope the "reconnection button" will be avaible in the future releases

 

[doskabouter]

I really don't know if this is going to be on our todo-list.
I think there are a lot of caveats here:
- Everybody using that router will loose their internet connection
- For long videos (movies) it isn't going to help, beause onlinevideos always start at the beginning of the video.

Maybe there is some skin/generic option in mediaportal to include a button which starts an external progam?

 

[SilentException]

IMO, this is out of scope of OnlineVideos.

There are other ways for doing this, and you can add a button in OnlineVideos skin yourself.

Let me give you example.

1. First you need to create reconnect program or script. I won't go into this, you know what's working for your router

2. Get MultiShortcut plugin that you will configure on window ID XXX (random integer) and to run your program or script.

3. Next, add a button in OnlineVideos skin file with hyperlink to your ID: <hyperlink>XXX</hyperlink>

4. When you click on the button, it will run your program/script and return back to OnlineVideos.

5. ...

6. Profit

 

[bombus]

I really don't know if this is going to be on our todo-list.
I think there are a lot of caveats here:
- Everybody using that router will loose their internet connection
- For long videos (movies) it isn't going to help, beause onlinevideos always start at the beginning of the video.

Maybe there is some skin/generic option in mediaportal to include a button which starts an external progam?

thanks but if u put a button you can ask (shouting): "IS ANYONE USING INTERNET?" before clicking on it...
i know that for long videos this is not a solution, but if u see 40 min videos this is perfect...

IMO, this is out of scope of OnlineVideos.

There are other ways for doing this, and you can add a button in OnlineVideos skin yourself.

Let me give you example.

1. First you need to create reconnect program or script. I won't go into this, you know what's working for your router

2. Get MultiShortcut plugin that you will configure on window ID XXX (random integer) and to run your program or script.

3. Next, add a button in OnlineVideos skin file with hyperlink to your ID: <hyperlink>XXX</hyperlink>

4. When you click on the button, it will run your program/script and return back to OnlineVideos.

5. ...

6. Profit

thanks! i'll try if this work -

it works!

 

[Quarter]

I really don't know if this is going to be on our todo-list.
I think there are a lot of caveats here:
- Everybody using that router will loose their internet connection
- For long videos (movies) it isn't going to help, beause onlinevideos always start at the beginning of the video.

Maybe there is some skin/generic option in mediaportal to include a button which starts an external progam?

Might need a timer to stop the video playing when it reaches 70m (it's a total of 70m all feeds for the day), When you are watching the feed and it reaches 70m it completely locks up mediaportal.

Its a pain when it happens on the HTPC which doesn't have a keyboard to get the task manager up. lol