TVNZ On Demand - No URL (1 Viewer)

[metalla_nz]

Hey Guys,

I've had a bit of a play and cant find out how to fix this issue, and Im starting to get a bit of heat from her indoors.

Is anyone able to fix up the TVNZ On Demand site for online videos?? It keeps saying No url for video...

Any help is appreciated, even if it's only instructions of how I can fix it myself.

Thanks

 

[doskabouter]

Do you have debug logs (onlinevideos+mpurlsourcesplitter) for me?

 

[ArnoldGoat]

I have this problem too. If I choose "Recent". there is a list. Most of them return "Unable to play the video, no URL", except for "Tiki" which produces a list of resolutions, and works if I select one. The log is for a session with 3 failed attempts and the one (Tiki) successful one. Logs attached. TIA for looking at this. Is this the right place to post? Version: MP1.2.3, dynamic updates applied.

 

[doskabouter]

I only see one attempt (tiki), but perhaps that's due to the loglevel not being at debug.

 

[ArnoldGoat]

Did you do something? It seems to be working tonight. Including the ones that didn't work yesterday.

 

[doskabouter]

Yes, I did: waiting for the problem to resolve itself

 

[ArnoldGoat]

Well, maybe you spoke too soon. It's back! Here's a log at debug level. I've got 2 MP clients and the problem appears on both. I chose 'recent' and tried the first 6. The only one that played was the third one 'Tiki'. The videos are playable OK from TVNZ's website. Is there any further info or testing I can help with?

 

[doskabouter]

I guess it's due to me using the ps3 api, and (if memory serves me correct) there were some discrepancies between the real site and the ps3.
Perhaps it's time to give the lot a revamp, and base it on the real site, but that's going to be a bit of work, so can't promise anything

Edit: after browsing through the site, and the history of onlinevideos, it's beginning to dawn on me.
It was very difficult to get consistent videolists for each category. f.e. if I click on V48Hours (Browse by title A-Z and then "V") I get a 404 page.
V48Hours 10 of the best (10 Episodes) gives a page with no videos on it.
Volvo Ocean race (22 episodes) leads me to a page with Full Episodes (15 videos). Clicking on view all full episodes (22 of them) titled "Your search for "volvo ocean race video" returned 22 results", so their could possibly be more videos as just the series you want to watch.

So it was all very confusing, and I decided to use the more consistent ps3 api. But that has it's flaws also...

 

[ArnoldGoat]

What a mess! I can understand why you wouldn't want to apply too much effort for the handful of MP users in NZ.

Consistency isn't TVNZ's strong suit. I keep missing programmes because they (I assume TVNZ) make spelling and punctuation errors in the EPG. I was even considering asking MP to do a 'fuzzy match'.

I'll just make it a bit easier to launch a browser on my HTPC.
In my case, I just use "recent" to catch the programmes missed because of the EPG, but that probably has its own inconsistencies.

Thanks anyway.

 

[doskabouter]

I can check if there's a section "recent" on the website, perhaps I can add that one to the existing categories.

In the mean time, perhaps Browsetheweb is something to consider?