TvGorge replacement (2 Viewers)

[doskabouter]

Hi All,

After the recent issues with tvgorge, I'm really missing the site.
There are a lot of alternatives, and I don't know which one to choose (I'm not going to do them all!).

So I decided to let you choose for me, and when voting, I want you to take the following things in account:

- The legality of the site
- The quality of the videos
- The bandwidth that is available for streaming
- The absence of (geographical) restrictions for use of the site
- Maybe some other things I couldn't think of

 

[medimax]

I think the sites that use Megavideo are the best so far. I don't know how you can recongnize an illegal site.
Hulu.com is only for US viewers.

 

[Wolen]

C'mon people... only 4 people responded? I'm sure more than that was using TVGorge!

 

[medimax]

I have been testing all the sites. What I do not like about Megastic.com is their Hoster is usually youku and it is terribly slow and lowres. Other sites like ninjavideo etc are mostley down( the videos have been removed). I like tv-links.eu and watch-series.com but I am still testing.
Cheers

 

[medimax]

Hi Doskabouter,

I hope you will add one of the above sites despite other users enthusiasm. An humble request could you maybe add kino dot to for the german speaking users?

Cheers

 

[doskabouter]

Recently I got a very extensive review from all the sites from jeeem.
Here it is:

Hi,

Read your post with interest. Glad someone else did the footwork for me, as I was just in the midst of researching this topic (for Thailand) for a couple of syndicated columnists in the U.S. who are reporting on it.
Here is my rough draft of my reply:
You sent me a forum list of "TVGorge Replacements" that I've been sorting through. Some work, others don't. Here is my rundown for you...
(Just to keep it simple, I've narrowed my search on each site to CSI Miami in most cases)
Watch tv series online for free, full episodes - Watch Series.com - Tried this link and came close to dumping it since it asked to download a player called Graboid Video and the whole site appeared confusing (doesn't take much with me), but I decided to give it a go anyway...downloaded Graboid but couldn't get it to work, then while fiddling around I found out I never really needed to download the player anyway...so, I used Revo Uninstaller to get rid of Graboid and found it is INCREDIBLY invasive!
Once rid of it, I went to the black bar on the top and clicked on "Episodes." You are then taken to another page with an Alphabetical listing. I clicked on "C" found CSI Miami, and clicked on that. Then, I was taken to another page, which showed every episode ever made!
I began with Season 1 (25 episodes), clicked on one I liked, and was immediately taken to yet another page, which was a bit confusing until I looked down towards the bottom left, and saw a number [1] and [2] under "Links", which come to find out is Part 1, and Part 2. Some Episodes I clicked on would take me to the page, and under Links I would find more than one site, tudou.com (with Part 1 and Part 2) or megavideo.com (with only one box to click on, which says, "Watch This Link!"
I chose tudou.com, clicked on Part one, and was taken to yet another page, which had a button in the middle stating, "Click HERE to play." Once you click the button, FINALLY you are taken to: (CSIÂõ°¢ÃܵÚÒ»¼¾08A_ÔÚÏßÊÓƵ¹Û¿´_ÍÁ¶¹ÍøÊÓƵ CSI Miami ÃÀ¾ç) a Chinese site. No problems at all, you just wait until the video screen comes up and there it is!
However, watching it as it starts, is very slow, with erratic streaming interruption. So, I pressed pause and waited for it to load fully so I wouldn't have to deal with the erratic streaming, and it took about ten or fifteen minutes to fully load...not bad. Watch part one, and when that finishes, just hit your back button on your browser and go back to the Part [1] and [2] screen and click Part [2].
I then tried the Megavideo link for another episode. This one appears to be British, and is very clean and well organized with no interruptions and constant, pure streaming from what I could tell.
So, this one works. (Albeit I am using Foxy Proxy now, but not sure if it's working or not...ha!)...Oh! Also, not a REAL biggy, but the video screen is peppered a bit with a couple-three Chinese advert icons, as well as a blue Chinese language thingy scrolling up top, and Chinese subtitles on the bottom, which is a bit annoying.

Watch Series Online Free - Once on this site, pan to the right side and you'll see the search pod. Just type in what you'd like to see (I tried a few. They didn't have Heroes, but they did list CSI, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, etc.) and click the SEARCH button. You'll be taken to another page with a listing of what they have to offer. Click on what interests you, and you'll get another page with anywhere from one to several different links to choose from. They use/offer: SuperNova (doesn't work here), Megavideo, Wisevid, zSHARE, Divxden, Megaupload, etc. Again I chose Megavideo simply because it works well. So, this one is okay, but their offering as far as episodes, is limited...evidently to whoever uploads the video content to them. Not very well organized either.
Project Free TV (Project Free TV - Watch all your favorite tv shows and movies online free) - This site appears to have just about everything. The appearance of the site alone gave me the impression it's an illegal site, but hey, I'm not prejudiced. I'm not sure if the other sites featured movies or not, but this one surely does. There were a few they didn't have when I searched, but stuff like Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Fight Club, even Avatar!...all there. CSI Miami was as well, mostly hosted by divxden, or megavideo. Sound quality on both the movies and some of the TV episodes is a bit lacking, unless you're using headphones. This site has great potential, and I'll surely return.
Fast Pass (Television | Fast Pass TV) - Beautiful site! Straight forward and easy to figure out. However, searching for CSI Miami came up with only Season 7 and Season 8, so I'd assume other stations may be lacking. This site does make up for it in quality video and sound.
TVdome (TV-Dome : Your Movie and TV Headquarters) - Another pretty straight forward site, however, when looking up CSI Miami, they only list a few seasons, mostly Season 7 and 8, but just one Season 5 (Weird).
I should mention now, that my connectivity might be one of the issues of slow loads, as although I have ADSL, it's certainly not without its little quirks.
I had to click on a couple different episodes to find one that would load, not sure why. But, once I found one and the video screen loaded up, the screen had an advert on it, which at the bottom states, "Close to play." In addition, there are two buttons just below the video screen, Version 1, and Version 2, which I didn't play with as I didn't have to, the video started on its own after I clicked on the advert's "Close to play," but my guess is those buttons are simply different links to the usual hosts: wiseVid, zShare, Megavideo, etc.
The video was medium quality, and the sound was good. But, I had to start the video, then quickly pause it for a while to give a chance to load a bit before starting it again, or the video would do the typical...start, run...stop...reload...start, which is really annoying to me. I'd much rather have uninterrupted video.
Oh, by the way...I have the ant download add-on for Firefox, which doesn't work on a lot of these sites, but most of the sites offer their own download option.
TVplush ((Shows - TVPlush.com) - Another "Alphabetical" site, which I like as it simplifies things...but, like others it also offers a search feature. Just for kicks (no pun intended actually prior to editing this) I tried out "Kung Fu," one of my favorites when I was a kid. Well, they have it listed, but once it came up, none of the episodes I tried were available, and I tried at least eight of them at random (there was a lot listed).
So, CSI Miami it was, and they listed all of the Seasons, 1 through 8, with all the episodes. I clicked on one I'd already seen by accident, and just below the video screen was a yellow banner stating, "We also have the episode details relating to Kill Zone [the movie I'd seen]" so I clicked on that, and it takes you to another page offering: Show, Title, Date Aired, Age (how many days), Rating, Season, Episode, Number, and a description of the episode...Nice! So, I went back and picked another I hadn't seen.
I was immediately taken to: you.video.SINA.com.cn, which didn't work. But! Below the video screen was a slew of other links to pick from, so I scrolled down and picked Megavideo (U.S., by the way), which I had had good luck with, and eureka! It worked. Wonderful clarity, great sound! Damn near perfect!
tvduck (Watch TV Shows Online Free - tvDuck.com) - Easy to find CSI Miami, with lots and lots of other t.v. programing options. Clicked on the episode I wanted, which unfolded to a myriad (18) of links to choose from. I tried four of them and not one of them worked, so I abandoned this site.
thepiratecity (Watch Free Movies Online) - All movies on this site. In fact I didn't notice any t.v. programs at all. However, clicking on random movies such as, Avatar, Madagascar, Hitman, Fight Club..., produces a series of pages. First page, either download the movie or watch the movie, second page shows various links to a variety of hosts, some that require you to download a player. So, I picked "Hitman," and clicked on one of their host choices, "Megavideo," again because of it's supreme quality. Worked flawlessly. Then on to "Fight Club," and again "Megavideo," however, this time there were three Megavideo choices, all with varying reports of percentages that worked. I picked the one rated 77%, and again...flawless. Excellent video quality and sound!
greatstufftv (Watch Free Movies Online) - Exactly the same as above. Not really sure why they even listed this one.
quicksilverscreen (QuickSilverScreen - Watch Movies Online Free) - This one's got a little bit of everything! Anime, Bollywood, Cartoons, Documentaries, Funny/Short/Web, Movies, Music Videos, Sport, Stand Up Comedy, Trailers, and finally TV shows. Awesome. I did a search under TV shows for CSI Miami and it listed 310 videos, although they are not well organized at all. Most all of them are hosted by Megavideo, so I tried one and like others, this worked wonderfully. Strange thing...Full-Screen mode didn't seem to work until I played with it for awhile. However, many of these sites, including Megavideo, appear to have little glitches in them depending on the website running them.
Checked out the Movies section, clicked on "Forest Gump," again was hosted by Megavideo, but didn't work. So, I tried, "2001: A Space Odyssey," but it required me to download the "Stage6 video player," so I stopped checking the movies out. I'm sure others are straight forward, but it appears some are not.
10starmovies (Watch Movies Online - Download Movies - Watch Free Online TV-Shows - watch-movies.net) - Offers movies, hot movies, and tv shows. You can also download anything on the site. T.V. show, (Miami CSI) worked great. Great video and sound. Regarding movies, you find the movie you want (they offer some of the latest movies, Avatar, The Book of Eli, etc.), click on it, then face the myriad of host choices, some of which have low percentage (of working) ratings, and others that have high ratings. I clicked on Avatar, followed the page paths, and finally came up with a great stream, but with low sound quality. So, I just switched to another host and found one with great sound. Still, Avatar and Book of Eli were just released here, so you can't really beat that!
streaming-tv-episodes.co.uk (Streaming TV Episodes - Broadband TV) - All t.v. shows, as far as I can tell. Clicked on Miami CSI, and was taken to a Season's page. Picked Season 1 and was further taken to an episode page that was frustratingly slow, since I had to click through every episode and wait for the page to load before I got to the episode I wanted.
Once the video loaded, and was off and running, on the lower left portion of the screen was - Part 1 of 7. Playing the video wasn't a problem as it ran continuously and without interruption until it reached Part 2 of 7, and stopped just short of the end, and was slow to play. The video would stop for three to four minutes, resume for twenty or so seconds, then stop again. I tried pausing it to allow it to load, but this didn't help much.
I'm not sure if all the rest of the programming is like this, but if it is, this site gets a big thumbs down from me, since there are so many other websites, which provide streaming free from interruption.
ovguide (Free Movies Online) - Claims Movies, TV, and more, but after searching around clicking for about five minutes and coming up empty handed, I said, "Forget this site!"
hulu (Hulu - Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.) - Couldn't get it to work at all...kept coming up: "We're sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed within the United States. For more information on Hulu's international availability, click here....Well yes, I've got Hotspot Shield and Foxy Proxy, but obviously something isn't working right...will likely take the time much later to look into this.
fancast (Fancast | Watch Full TV Shows and Movies | Free Online Streaming) - This site is not very well put together. Limited episodes to begin with, confusingly busy site, and I couldn't get anything to load up and play. Not recommended unless you want to invest the time to play with it a while.
watchxonline (Never scheduled programming | Free Movies / TV Shows Online | WatchXOnline.com) - Not too bad. Movies and TV both work, but limited quantity of both. Weird thing is once you click on the movie or tv show you want, up comes not one video player, but two. The second listed as "Alt." kinda like a back up parachute I guess. Quality of video and sound is reasonable but has some streaming problems and long wait times.
tv.blinkx (Watch Full Episodes of TV Shows Online with blinkx Remote) - This site is pretty nice! Both movies and TV and a nice selection. Another one that has a huge selection of different host sites. Choose Megavideo if it's available and everything is clean, clean, clean...other host site differ from poor (streaming issues, bad picture and sound) to excellent. This one's a keeper.
blinkbox (Watch Movies Online, Watch Free Movies & Free TV Online | blinkbox) - Sounds similar to the one above, but a totally different (and useless) site. Useless in the sense it doesn't work here in Thailand...at all.
luutit (Watch Movies Online, Free Movies, Free Online Movies, Watch Movies) - Very odd site. I couldn't seem to find CSI Miami at all, so I tried a couple others. No luck. Then I picked one they had listed and once taken to another page, it took me more than five minutes (that's my limit) and I never got a video going. Same deal with the movies.
moviesforfree (Movies For Free, Watch Movies Online) - Found CSI Miami on the site easily, but it only offers a handful of episodes from Season 8, 7, and one episode from Season 1. You cannot play these videos unless you sign-up (with PushPlay), which is a big negative for me. I might sign-up to a site that offered a massive amount of entertainment, but not this one. Regarding movies, they have a small selection (when compaired to other, bigger sites) and you get the same deal when you try to watch them...you have to sign-up. Then, I tried downloading both the TV shows and the movies, and what you get is a binary file, which includes that invasive video player Graboid, so again...no way Jose! I don't recommend this site at all. A big thumbs down!
movics (MovIcs - Watch Movies Online | Watch Free Movies | Watch TV Shows | Free Movies) - This one is all movies. Looks like a great selection, but this is a sign-up site, and one I'm not interested in, as there are so many more that do not require you to sign up. Thumbs down!
TV-LINKS (Tv-Links : Free Movies links, Watch Tv Shows links online, Anime, Documentaries) - Another alphabetical site, which I prefer simply out of the ease of finding what you're looking for. Has both movies and TV listings, both of which offer several host sites including my favorite Megavideo. You can download, but in order to, you have to sign up for Usenet. Thumbs up for this site.
tvsplanet (Watch Free TV Online) - Offers TV viewing in many different countries (except Thailand). Pick the country you want, click, and pick whatever you'd like to watch from the numerous shows offered. Could not find a search feature on this site to save me, so I'll have to give it a thumbs down since my primary goal in writing this review was to watch CSI Miami programming or up-to-date movies. However, if you like documentaries, news programs, or those rather odd Japanese tv programs (all in several languages) then this would be an interesting site to peruse. Shows are available either real-time or pre-recorded. No buffering problems either. I watched some weird, but entertaining tv show from the Kin WebTV General Channel in the Congo, Africa....different!
crackle (Crackle - Watch Free Full-Length Movies, free TV, Original Web Series Now) - Offers both movies and television, however, I could not get this site to work. Everything I clicked on took me to a dead page, announcing: THE PAGE IS NOT REDIRECTING PROPERLY. I checked my connectivity, and nothing was out of order, so not sure why this one didn't work. The site does not appear to have CSI Miami listed.
in2tv (In2TV: Classic Old TV Shows - AOL Television) - This site offers Classic "Old" TV shows, such as Barney Miller, The "A" team, ALF, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Gilligan's Island...they are all here! Gave me a true blast from the past, it did! I watched one episode of Barney Miller, with great sound, but fuzzy picture. Searched for Miami CSI, and found it, but all this site does is re-route you to another host for shows they don't list. This one's great for those old episodes of Gilligan's island that you missed when you were ten years old!
DavidMovie (Davidmovie- watch 2007 2008 2009 movies online for free: action, adventure, horror, thriller, comedy) - All movie site. Tried to search for "Fight Club," but no results found. Tried a few others from off the top of my head, all with "No Results Found," so you're better off sticking to the ones listed on the site, which according to their adverts, doesn't list prior to 2007. Avatar was there, as well as Book of Eli...but, you click on them (Watch Movie Online) and are taken to a DavidMovie link, which says:
The free blinkx Remote Toolbar uses the world's most advanced video search engine to access all the most popular and recent TV shows and films! The toolbar also includes a handy Ask search box. ShopperReports provides comparison shopping offers in a sidebar. blinkx Beat is a screensaver of video entertainment that brings you the best viral videos from all around the Web. Uninstall easily via Add/Remove Programs.
For more information: Terms of use, Privacy Policy
Yes, I want free ShopperReports too
View TOU | Print TOU
By clicking "Start", I represent that I (1) am at least 18, (2) agree to the EULA and Privacy Policy terms and (3) consent to install the blinkx toolbar, blinkx Beat and, if selected, ShopperReports, and access Davidmovie- watch 2007 2008 2009 movies online for free: action, adventure, horror, thriller, comedy.
So, you have to read the fine print unless you want to get stuck with a toolbar you don't want. Also, at the bottom is two green buttons..."Cancel," which I'd be inclined to press...and "Start," which states, "Click 'Start' to install and access this website for free."
I don't like that word....INSTALL...if I see it, I run in the opposite direction most of the time. Thumbs down on this one!
freeonlineepisodes (Free Online Episodes | Watch TV Shows, Anime, Cartoon, and Movies Free) - Nice site. Clean, all TV, nicely organized. The video's have no buffering problems, great sound, nice picture. Thumbs up!
movielab (Watch Movies Online at MovieLab | Free Movies Online, Divx Movies, Flash Movies, Veoh, Zshare, TV Shows, Anime, Live Sports and Live TV Online) - Movies, TV programming, and Anime offered on this site. Alphabetic listings...my favorite. Movies are from several hosts, Megavideo included, so clean streaming with literally no buffering issues. TV shows, including CSI Miami, are not well organized, with some coming up, "This Video Not Available" however, once you find one that works, they are all pretty clean and easy streaming with great quality. Thumbs up!
ireel (Watch Movies Online - Download Movies & Streaming New Movies on iReel) - All movies. Lists several genres such as: Action, Adventure, Documentary, Foreign films, History, Inspirational, Horror, Mystery, literally everything! Has quite a few REAL OLD movies, some way before my time! Three movies I searched for, "Deliverance, with Burt Reynolds," "Fight Club, with Brad Pitt," and "Matrix, with Keanu Reeves," all came up "Sorry, we couldn't find any matching movies." But, this site has a plethora of movies I've either never heard of, or have forgotten about.
So, just off the top of my head I chose the genre, "Crime," which brought me only 28 choices. I clicked on "Hells Gate, (2003)" a crime drama by John Cecil, starring, Brian Faherty and Jeremy Cohen. I clicked on "Start Movie Now," and was taken to a "SIGN IN/SIGN UP" site.
Thumbs down. I just can't be bothered with sign-in sites.
ninjavideo (NinjaVideo.net) - Offers TV, Movies, Cartoons, Documentaries and "Other." First off, this site is just too damn busy for me. Too much eye candy and too confusing. Text in red prompts you to download this and download that...stuff needed if you want to watch something, which was another bad sign for me, even though this site appears on the forum as rather highly rated.
I clicked on Movies and hurriedly clicked on the Movie of the Day, which was a 1950's flick called "All About Eve," but I was taken to yet another 'busy' site that stated in red text, "Video May Take Up to 60 Seconds to Load. Please Do Not Refresh." I waited the 60 seconds and...NOTHING. Evidently it didn't work because I didn't download all the 'helper' crap they offer.
Big Thumbs down from me. I like simple, easy sites. Not a bunch of crap like this site offers.
quarkbase (Website Information, Analysis & Research Tool | Quarkbase) - This doesn't even appear to be a TV, or Movie host site. It appears to be some sort of Website search engine. Big question mark.
surfthechannel (SurfTheChannel - Home) - Simple and straight forward, just how I like it. Only TV programming here. Big search bar up top, put in the program you're interested in, and search. I picked Miami CSI and bingo, all seasons, all episode. Nice, clean, clear video with no buffering. Thumbs up!
tv-links.eu (Tv-Links : Free Movies links, Watch Tv Shows links online, Anime, Documentaries) - Virtually the exact same site as TV-LINKS above.
comewatchtv (Welcome to Come Watch TV) - TV programming only. Tried searching for CSI, Heros, Lost, to no avail, however, the search engine tends to be very picky as in either you type in your selection exactly as it is listed (including caps/no-caps) or you're out of luck. So, I'm sure they are there, just didn't type them in correctly.
I picked South Park to check out the quality and once clicked, it offered several different host sites...Smotri, zShare, Megavideo, but everyone I tried offered beautiful clarity and sound, but a buffering issue only solved by pausing the video and allowing it to load fully. No download capabilities that I could see, but not a big deal really.
Thumbs up!
letmewatchthis (http://www.letmewatchthis.com/) - Another site offering alphabetical listings, which I like. Found just what I wanted in both TV listings (CSI Miami) and Movies (Deliverance, staring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight). Very straight forward, great clarity, good sound, no buffering, GREAT! Big thumbs up!
flickpeek (Watch free movies online, watch tv shows online, watch video online) - TV & Movie listings. Some buffering issues, solved per usual by pausing the video and allowing it to fully load. Load times seem relatively fast, but then I have an ADSL connection in Asia, while the rest of the Western world is asleep...Nice quality TV videos of CSI. No problems other than the buffering issue (Some Megavideo sites come pre-loaded, so you can just click-n-go, or pick any spot in the video you want and go from there. Very nice..)
Downloads handled by UseNet on some hosts...big negative, as you have to sign up, but, if you pick the right host, some will allow you to download the movie clean, without having to download a player, or some other stupid plugin. I played around with it for awhile, after searching for "Fight Club," a movie I'd seen but never finished, and I found a host that offered a clean download, albeit pretty slow...
Hummm...I suppose this one's a high-medium thumbs up. Ya gotta do a lot of clicking and exploring...very time consuming in today's "I want it NOW!" society.
show-links.tv (TV Shows, Movies & Music Show Links TV) - Another massive clicking site. Not worth my time, nor anybody else! Big, big, thumbs down!
megastic (Megastic.com - Enjoy !!!!) - Claims - TV shows, Movies, Bollywood, and Cartoons/Anime. Clicked on TV shows...CSI Miami. Only offers Seasons six, seven and eight....which sucks. I picked a random episode, clicked on it, and it loaded okay in another window. But...there is a buffering issue with this one, which is weird...it's like you can hear the movie playing from some other source, but there's nothing in the browser...too weird. Too jerky too...video stops and starts a lot, no matter if you allow it to load or not. Not my cup of tea! Thumbs down!!!
episodeonline (Episode Online - Free To Watch TV and Movies) - Movies and TV. Tried CSI Miami...only Seasons 7 and 8. Limited episodes also. If you like clicking, you're gonna love this site! Movies...a big hodgepodge mess, is how I'd describe the "organization" of movies on this site. No semblance of order. First you think they are going alphabetic, then after a group of say..."D" movies, all of a sudden you get a movie titled with the first letter "W"...I mean go figure?
Click on one, go on a "Clicking safari," then finally settle into some remote webpage from the island of Zork, let the video load, then click "PLAY"......nothing happens. Then, something happens! Then nothing. Then something! Then...aww...forget it.
Thumbs down DEFINITELY for this one!
tvepisodestoday (Watch TV Episodes Today) - Another eye candy site...lots and lots of video adverts...too much for me, actually. Uh Oh! Got a virus on this one!!!! Not a good sign at ALL! My anti-virus program listed it as a "dangerous virus," so...that's enough for me...this site is a goner! Thumbs down big time!!!
tvtubex (Watch TV Online - Free Series, Shows) - TV programming site...but, no matter what I do, I can't seem to reach the video. Searched "CSI Miami," and got several hits on it...leading me to a site that offered the video, but didn't work...not sure why, but also not sure if I was doing the right thing or not...another one of those sites that offer too much..so you don't know if you're doing the right thing or not.
Thumbs down on this last one.
That's it!
No more listed.

So, there you have it. Someone, possibly you, appeared a bit upset that nobody was replying to the thread. Well, you dump that many URL's on people, nobody is going to want to research it unless there is something in it for them....

 

[andemg]

wow! great review by jeeem there mate

I had a look at some of the sites and here is my two cents... If you look at most of these sites they just have links to externally hosted videos, why dont we build an app purely for TV-Shows, an aggregator kind of app or just functionality into OnlineVideos, which just lists all the shows and when selected any shows/episode, it trawls through these websites to find video links.

Once the links are pulled in, user is given an option to choose a link to play from, at this stage, user can choose one and go back to choose the next one if he find the first one if broken/bad quality etc.

I think this might be a lot of work, just a vague idea thats passing my mind.

You see, most of these sites will be gone one day or other, so if we have a generic app to pull tv shows, we can just fix the code once in a while when new sites come in and some other sites die!

thanks! Love MediaPortal !!! Love OnlineVideos !!!

 

[doskabouter]

Due to the overwhelming amount of votes on watch-series.com I'm going for that one.
I cracked most of the video-suppliers, still 2 to go, and a bit of polishing, and then it's time for a first test.

wow! great review by jeeem there mate

I had a look at some of the sites and here is my two cents... If you look at most of these sites they just have links to externally hosted videos, why dont we build an app purely for TV-Shows, an aggregator kind of app or just functionality into OnlineVideos, which just lists all the shows and when selected any shows/episode, it trawls through these websites to find video links.

Once the links are pulled in, user is given an option to choose a link to play from, at this stage, user can choose one and go back to choose the next one if he find the first one if broken/bad quality etc.

I think this might be a lot of work, just a vague idea thats passing my mind.

You see, most of these sites will be gone one day or other, so if we have a generic app to pull tv shows, we can just fix the code once in a while when new sites come in and some other sites die!

thanks! Love MediaPortal !!! Love OnlineVideos !!!

Indeed that is a lot of work to make, for now I will implement just the one I mentioned above.
And if that one decides to quit, I will implement a new one. That's for now the easiest method (I have to keep just one site working instead of 50), and with the auto-update it's deployed fast enough.

 

[doskabouter]

Today I added watch-series.com. You should get it with the autoupdate.

When selecting a video, there is a box (similar to youtube) where you can choose the source of the video. Behind it is the percentage (as on the original website). The lower the percentage, the less chance there is that the video will play correctly.
After the percentage there is an optional sequence number to keep the names unique, and after that an abbreviation: ns is not supported wip is work in progress. The ones without an abbreviation should play normally.

 

[doskabouter]

Now i'ts working as it should be.
A couple of remarks:
- Some servers aren't that fast, so it could take a while to start (especially if you have set a large buffer-time).
- Some videos are in multiple parts, for now I only implemented playing the first part.