Ah - didn’t realise you could set your own session ID!! That definately makes it easier to manage - i’ll build that in rather than extracting it, removes a layer of code.
Thanks
EDIT: Done and tested - works fine… Wonder what other secrets lie in the API!!!
Almost there, smb and http are both working now but auto still fails :S
See attached file for some log snippets.
Funny thing is, on the other HTPC both auto and http work and smb fails, apparently still an smb premission problem, altho i tried fixing that with this guide [Windows 7 Guide to SMB Shares](http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=63116)
And if you are getting tired of me just say so :D
Woah - embarrasing!! I uploaded 1.9.6 as 1.9.6.1 by accident! Didn't affect those auto-updating (that was the right version) just accidently zipped up the wrong commit...
The URL is fixed now, so points to the right files - give it another go (you might need to remove and then add the addon back in, as it might not update itself with teh same version number)..
Fix for thumb images if transcoding is set for AEON-Nox skin:
<br />
#Set the thumb image if it has been enabled<br />
try:<br />
if len(arguments['thumb'].split('/')[-1].split('.')) < 2:<br />
arguments['thumb']=str(arguments['thumb']+"/image.jpg")<br />
liz.setThumbnailImage(str(arguments['thumb']+XBMCInternalHeaders))<br />
printDebug( "Setting thumb art as " + str(arguments['thumb'])+" with headers: "+ XBMCInternalHeaders)<br />
except: pass<br />
This should go after setting the fanart in "add link" method. This does not seem to work for other skins such as confluence and the updated quartz (still looking into but they may be using icon instead of thumb)
Also does DTS work for you when transcoding with latest nightlies?
I must have missed this - thumbs aren't showing with *transcoding* set? Whereabouts in the skin are they missing from (and is this the tweaked plexbmc version)? Transcoding is only ever set at playtime, so up to that point the plugin does nothing different from what it normally would do?
I did load up the plexbmc Aeon-nox (and could see thumbnails), but the skin is also broken a bit (I don't get the filter menus)..
Just checked and it doesn't. Not sure why, but it looks as though ffmpeg can't detect the stream correctly. I assume that the "data" stream is the audio (or subtitles, but not sure is this is added to the video stream - i.e. hardcoded during the transcode).
08:00:38 T:5688 INFO: ffmpeg[1638]: Stream #0.0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x544 [PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], 6k tbr, 90k tbn, 48 tbc
08:00:38 T:5688 INFO: ffmpeg[1638]: Stream #0.1: Data: [6][0][0][0] / 0x0006
Sorry to reply to myself, but this *might* fix the issue you have been having:
My XBMC patch for images has been added to GIT, so the latest nightly should have it (or at the very least will tomorrow). This allows urls without image extensions (such as .jpg/.png) to be tested, loaded and cached - which means we no longer have to add /image.jpg to the end of image URLs to get XBMC to work with them.
It should also open the way up to using the Media Server photo transcoder to resize images to match XBMC and therefore speed up image download/displaying. It might also allow custom section fanart to work.
Also, I wonder if we should break out dev discussion to a separate thread? Either in here or under developer->General
EDIT: Just checked the commit code and my fix is in 12th August nightly build
EDIT2: yep, fanart through the photo transcoder works and speeds up load (although it's still slow to download)
EDIT3: Hmm, section fanart is working, but I *had* to send it through the photo transcoder as the mimetype is wrong (application/octet-stream, rather than image/jpg). Haven't loaded to GIT yet as just playing.
EDIT4: Tidied up and in GIT now for testing..
I apologize if this has been already asked, but is plexbmc properly keeping track of what has been watched? It doesnt appear that any marking or anything is shown on shows, etc, that have already been watched through plexbmc, etc.
Bug Report:
When the folding folders option is selected (when only one season is available) I get an http 404 error when trying to mark a show ‘watched’ using the menu button when episode I selected is highlighted. (Again this is only for a show that has 1 season and it is automatically folded).
Then, when I change to never fold I get a recurring loop when entering via the ‘Show only Unwatched episodes’ filter like this:
- select tv shows
- select only show unwatched
- select show title
- select show episode
- … now instead of show playing, I get a list of tvshow, movies, again like on home screen but in list format and I can select tvshows again from here again and the loop starts over again; can never actually get a show to play UNLESS I select show ‘all’ instead of ‘unwatched’.
I am using plex server 9.3.4 on a mac mini
xbmc on windows vista using latest PlexXMBC and latest Quartz plugin.
Thanks - I’ll check that out today.
Working now, did have some problems with updateing to 1.9.6.1 but that is al sorted out now :)
Thanks for the great support.
I'm seeing the same thing though I hadn't had a chance to investigate enough to post a detailed report. My PMS is on Lion and the problem appeared about the time did the Lion upgrade. However, there was also a pled update about the same time so I don't know which was the culprit.
Not been able to reproduce this. I can mark shows and episodes watched with the single season flatten option turned on. Could you pass some more infomation?
Found this one. I put a workaround in for broken PMS data for unwatched shows and episodes. But looks like the data has been fixed, so this workaround is not actually causing problems. I just need to remove some code, so I'll do this later on.
Bugfix v1.9.6.2
To address the context menu and menu looping for “unwatched” filter menu.
Also checked and removed a few other XML data workaround I put in place (as Plex has fixed them)
https://github.com/downloads/hippojay/plugin.video.plexbmc/plugin.video.plexbmc-1.9.6.1.zip
I’ve also put these changes in to the EDEN only version of the plugin. This version also has numerous other changes/fixes that I have made for EDEN plus a few new feature:
[list]
[]from 12th August build, support for custom section fanart
[]resizing media server fanart to reduce size and speed up XBMC cache and load
Altered the resume write back to MEdia server to occur every 5 seconds, rather than at the end of the viewing session.
[/list]
For XBMC nightlies only:
https://github.com/downloads/hippojay/plugin.video.plexbmc/plugin.video.plexbmc-EDEN2.zip
Yep, it sends the data back to the Media Server. It will only mark stuff as watched if you watch 95% of it - also note that the standard XBMC flags are to show when items have been watched, rather than when they are still outstanding. Using a tweaked skin and setting plex style watched flags will reverse this.
In the newer EDEN builds, I have modified the reporting to send back data every 5 seconds, rather than waiting until the end of the video. This reduces the chance of losing this status information if there is a crash, etc. Not sure which build you are running.
Im running xbmc 10.1. Also, i dont think it should start reporting anything until at least 10% or so into a video.
I honestly though dont see any type of Watched marking on a video when going through my tv show listings, even though I have watched it. Also, how can i quickly go through all the movies/tv shows i recently imported into plex that I have already seen and mark them as watched?
Edit: Everything I reported before now works with Bugfix version v1.9.6.2. Thanks so much for the quick fixes!!!
I prefer the partially watched status to start right away since I often check the first few minutes to see if I'm interested in watching that show now and like returning to where it left off.
In the PlexXBMC / Look and Feel section do you have Plex Channel Vuew, Plex Style Watch Flags enabled? Mine is, and when a show is unwatched a dot shows beside the show or episode name.
Hello all,
I just installed Plex last week and I was forwarded to this thread when I was trying to find information about Plex client for Windows.
My question is:
My understanding is that I need to install XBMC to make this Plex client work as this is an XBMC plugin. Is that correct? Is there just a ‘client’ installation for XBMC or do I have to install the whole package on each computer for them to be able to browse and play Plex movies hosted on another computer?
Currently I have the ‘main’ computer that has Plex Media Server installed, and three others (2 windows, 1 macbook) that would like to watch and stream contents from the main computer. I have tested streaming Plex to Roku and also a couple of Android clients and they all work great! The only thing that’s missing for me is playback on the computers.
Thanks!
XBMC only comes as a client install (there is no sever option), so simply pick up a windows copy at xbmc.org. Once installed, download the repository zip file from the 1st post and put it somewhere handy.
Start XBMC, navigate to settings -> system -> addons -> install from zip. Find and install the repository zip file.
Once done, navigate to Get more addons (I think) and then the PleXBMC repository.
Download plexbmc (in videos) and a skin (I recommend quartz for sheer simplicity).
Once downloade, configure the plexbmc addon with the IP Address of the plex media server
Off you go.
These are from memory, so some of the names/steps might be different, but this is the gist.
Ah okay. I’m not familiar with XBMC and thought it’s similar to Plex.
Thank you for the response. I’ll be trying this as soon as I get home!
