Help with new plugin

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I have been using plex for over an year and absolutely love it. I have started writing a new plugin for NDTV (an Indian News Channel) and ran into some issues. I am new to plugin development, this is my first plugin, so I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I started with an existing plugin and modified for my needs. The way it is now, when I select a video to play, plex media server dies and there is no information in the log files why it died. Below is the plugin code, hope somebody could help me figure out what I am doing wrong. I am suspecting the problem is in the site config. file.



This is still work in progress and there is some unused code and some hard coded values.



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import datetime, re, pickle<br />
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###################################################################################################<br />
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PLUGIN_PREFIX  = '/video/ndtv'<br />
BASE_URL       = "http://www.ndtv.com/video/list"<br />
RSS_FEED       = '%s/v/feed/playlist/%%s.xml' % BASE_URL<br />
RSS_NS         = {'mvn':'http://maven.net/mcr/4.1', 'media':'http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'}<br />
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# Default artwork and icon(s)<br />
ART_DEFAULT    = 'art-default.png'<br />
ICON_DEFAULT   = 'icon-default.png'<br />
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###################################################################################################<br />
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def Start():<br />
  Plugin.AddPrefixHandler(PLUGIN_PREFIX, MainMenu, 'NDTV', ICON_DEFAULT, ART_DEFAULT)<br />
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  Plugin.AddViewGroup('Category', viewMode='List', mediaType='items')<br />
  Plugin.AddViewGroup('Details', viewMode='InfoList', mediaType='items')<br />
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  # Set the default MediaContainer attributes<br />
  MediaContainer.title1    = 'NDTV'<br />
  MediaContainer.viewGroup = 'Category'<br />
  MediaContainer.art       = R(ART_DEFAULT)<br />
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  # Set the default cache time<br />
  HTTP.SetCacheTime(CACHE_1HOUR)<br />
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###################################################################################################<br />
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def MainMenu():<br />
  dir = MediaContainer()<br />
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  dir.Append(Function(DirectoryItem(Playlist, title='Top Videos', thumb=R(ICON_DEFAULT)), title='Top Videos', id=1))<br />
  dir.Append(Function(DirectoryItem(Playlist, title='Latest', thumb=R(ICON_DEFAULT)), title='Latest', id=2))<br />
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  return dir<br />
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###################################################################################################<br />
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def Playlist(sender, title, id):<br />
  dir = MediaContainer(viewGroup='Details', title2=title)<br />
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  i = HTML.ElementFromURL(BASE_URL).xpath('/html/body/div[@id="contentbody"]/div[@id="contentbodywrap"]/div[@id="contentbodycont"]/div[@id="insideleftcont"]/div[@id="storybody"]/div[@id="video_thumb_list"]/ul[@id="Related"]/li')<br />
  #Log(i)<br />
  for item in i:<br />
    title       = item.xpath('./p/a')[1].text<br />
    media       = item.xpath('./p/a')[1].get('href')<br />
    mediaurl    = "http://www.ndtv.com/%s" % media<br />
    Log(mediaurl)<br />
    description = title<br />
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    dir.Append(WebVideoItem(mediaurl, title=title, subtitle='', duration=50, summary=description, thumb=R(ICON_DEFAULT)))<br />
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  return dir<br />







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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><br />
<site  site="http://www.ndtv.com//video/player/news/.*/.*"<br />
       plugin="http://www.ndtv.com/news/flash/video_622x386/KKSPlayer.swf"<br />
       version="1.0"><br />
<crop x="20" y="470" width="622" height="386" /><br />
</site><br />
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Hi!

It could be because your site config doesn’t contain a (initial) state. Try it like this and see what happens. I’ve also made the site url and player url a little less specific.



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><br />
<site site="http://www.ndtv.com"<br />
	plugin=".*KKSPlayer.swf"<br />
	initialState="playing"<br />
	version="1.0"><br />
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	<crop x="20" y="470" width="622" height="386" /><br />
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	<state name="playing"><br />
		<event><br />
			<condition><br />
				<frameLoaded /><br />
			</condition><br />
			<action><br />
				<!-- if this is a live stream, you can leave it at that, --><br />
				<!-- otherwise you might want to create more states --><br />
			</action><br />
		</event><br />
	</state><br />
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</site>
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Welcome to the plugin development world …



Agreed with Sander, I have seen this in the past …







Totally unrelated but to give you a heads up:



In the v2 Framework the syntax to globally set the cache time has changed to :



HTTP.CacheTime = CACHE_1HOUR

instead of

HTTP.SetCacheTime(CACHE_1HOUR)





Also you probably want to add this to your Start():

DirectoryItem.thumb = R(ICON_DEFAULT)

as a good practice in case a DirectoryItem happens to not have a thumb parameter declared, it’ll default to the icon default (or your can remove them in the DirectoryItem instantiation and lighten your code)





And your background art should be .jpg if possible





Good luck with your plugin.

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Thank you very much, adding initialState to the site config fixed it.


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