TWiT.tv Channel Plugin

[flexage 118]

TWiT.tv Channel Plugin

http://twit.tv/

 

 

Description

 

The TWiT.tv Netcast Network with Leo Laporte features the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech, along with over 20 other top-ranked online shows.

 

This channel lets you browse and watch the latest episodes of your favorite netcasts from the TWiT.tv network.

 

 

 

Screens

 

TWiT Shows Overview

 

TWiT Episodes Overview

 

 

 

Configuration

 

There are no configuration options required to use the TWiT Channel.

 

However you do have some control over the quality of video stream you would like, using the Channel area of the MB3 Server dashboard.

 

 

 

 

Change Log/Release History

 

1.0.5267.29180 (3/Jun/2014)

• Initial Beta Release - A minimum Media Browser Server version of 3.0.5267.16902 is required for use (which is the latest Beta Server Release at the time of writing)

 

 

Credits/Kudos

 

Massive thanks go out to Redshirt and Luke for their help, and also to snazy2000 for the Twitch Channel plugin which laid the foundations for this plugin.

Edited June 3, 2014 by flexage

[Redshirt 1485]

Well done bud.

[Luke 24286]

Fantastic. Done in record time!

[CBers 4692]

Nice one @@flexage.

[flexage 118]

Thanks guys, it's a pleasure

[CBers 4692]

Not sure if it's the plug-in or the Channels infrastructure, but I can't sort any of the content, either the list of netcasts or the episodes within each netcast.

 

TIA.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1083]

Can't wait to test it out. Thanks for the contribution.

[flexage 118]

Not sure if it's the plug-in or the Channels infrastructure, but I can't sort any of the content, either the list of netcasts or the episodes within each netcast.

 

TIA.

 

Well, if I remember correctly when I last looked it kinda worked like this:

• Netcasts List

  Sortable only by Default(Name)/Name, the netcasts folders don't have a release date or runtime associated with them so those two sort types are ignored.

• Episodes List

  Sortable by Default(Name), Name, Release Date, and Runtime.

  However, it is worth noting that for episodes lists the name and release date sort types produce the same order, since the episodes are already listed by names that correspond to their release order.

  Runtime, on the other hand does produce a sort order that is exactly by running length (shortest to longest).

For the Episodes List I made sure to wire up the ability to sort by both Name and Release Date so that this Channel is prepared for any future developments that may be made to the sorting/channel backends in the mb server.

 

But really, atm, yeah Netcasts Lists are effectively only sortable by Name, and Episode Lists are only sortable to the equivalent of Name & Runtime

[CBers 4692]

OK, thanks @@flexage.

[snazy2000 339]

Nice work!

[Yogi 367]

Stil having an issue here

 

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/7412-dev-build-173/page-6&do=findComment&comment=104117

[flexage 118]

@@Yogi, just seen the OP, I'll look into it, thanks for the head's up... still don't have MBClassic to test tho I'll do my best

[Yogi 367]

@@Yogi, just seen the OP, I'll look into it, thanks for the head's up... still don't have MBClassic to test tho I'll do my best

Thanks mate much appreciated

[im85288 1492]

For what it's worth I am also experiencing issues with Twit. It works fine via the web client but is not retrieving the channel details on the Roku...or actually for me via the API to get the channels data.

 

This is the error shown when attempting to get the channel data via the API:

 

[snazy2000 339]

If the same I'd works on web client but not in api then I'd of thought it's an api issue

 

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

[Abobader 1707]

Well done!

[flexage 118]

@@Yogi - Ebr has fixed the problem TWiT was having in MBC as of the latest Dev release (176?) - Tested my end and seems to be fine now
 
@@im85288 - Are you still seeing this issue from the current stable server release onwards and latest stable TWiT release onwards? The issue with MBC has been resolved with some recent updates, has this helped your issue at all?

[Yogi 367]

@@Yogi - Ebr has fixed the problem TWiT was having in MBC as of the latest Dev release (176?) - Tested my end and seems to be fine now

 

Thanks mate all working great now.

[im85288 1492]

@@Yogi - Ebr has fixed the problem TWiT was having in MBC as of the latest Dev release (176?) - Tested my end and seems to be fine now

 

@@im85288 - Are you still seeing this issue from the current stable server release onwards and latest stable TWiT release onwards? The issue with MBC has been resolved with some recent updates, has this helped your issue at all?

 

@@flexage - I'm currently on the OSX server which is not quite up to date according to the version number...so it may be down to that. Once it get's updated I'll let you know if it's working for me. Cheers.

[Luke 24286]

it's up to date. just a bug where it's checking the windows catalog for updates

[im85288 1492]

Ah ok then it still does not work for me @@flexage - the same error message as shown above is produced when I attempt to get the channel data.

 

Looking into it in even more detail this call works:

 

http://192.168.1.214:8096/mediabrowser/Channels/d51e6f2cc27dee8bfb984be260b83039/Items?StartIndex=0&UserId=c0be427190e662f0ed319e512f6d72ab

 

But this one fails:

 

http://192.168.1.214:8096/mediabrowser/Channels/d51e6f2cc27dee8bfb984be260b83039/Items?UserId=c0be427190e662f0ed319e512f6d72ab

 

So it looks like the StartIndex is incorrectly a required field? 

[im85288 1492]

Ok thanks, My point is that all other channels successfully return the channel data without a StartIndex provided. This one is the only one (I have tested) that fails with a InvalidOperationException when the StartIndex is not included in the request. Not a big deal as I can add it to all requests..just odd.

[flexage 118]

Hmmm, I'll take a look see at my code... I might have left something erroneous in there, or it may be that I'm implementing a server feature that the other channels aren't to do with paging and filtering... Probably the latter tbh

[Redshirt 1485]

I'm able to surf this channel on Android without providing a startIndex. 

[Luke 24286]

start index is not required but you do have to respect the channel's max page size - for now, the lower channel is i think 50, so if you limit your calls to say, 30 at a time, that should last you a while