How does updating Retrospect work?
There has been a lot of confusion on how Retrospect update work. So this KB article is an attempt to explain the main ideas and principles behind the system. And...
For those who are interested, I just uploaded XOT-Uzg.v3.3.7. This release is necessary in order to fix some channel bugs. Amongst which is the RTL channel that uses their new JSON interface and should be a lot faster and better. The NOS channels were also update and can nog handle streams who’s session expired a lot better. Besides these fixes, all fixes that were previously added using channel updates are also included in 3.3.7.
Here is the complete overview:
Changelog v3.3.7 – 2013-10-20
- Fixed: issue with HTML entities where ‘& test;’ would be interpreted as a HTML entity
- Updated: Json Helper can now accept a fallback value
- Updated: Make sure we always get an empty list from a Json call in the ProcessFolder method
- Fixed: Url that expire should be able to work around the cache (Issue 475)
- Added: Abbility to add http headers to items and then use them to open the urls
- Updated: dependency changed to xbmc.python-2.0
- Fixed: typoo in sorting algorithm
- Updated: Try a closer match for the user-agent
- Fixed: Statistics user agent
- Updated: Repository should use gzip
- Fixed: UriHandler filename correction
- Fixed: Channel updater for Xbox
- Fixed: filename correcting on xbox
- Fixed: Logging in Updater exception cause an issue
- Fixed: bug in XBMC updater and dialogs.
- Updated: settings template
- Updated: use custom user-agent for statistics
- Fixed: DC Subtitle subtitle format did not work with more than 2 lines (Issue 454)
- Updated: Channel sort order (import order only)
- Updated: Swedish channel sort order
- Fixed: No compression for Xbox, won’t work on Python 2.4 (Issue 452)
- Fixed: Swedish Translation (Thanks to Göran)
- Updated: Some translations
- Fixed: add \a to the titles that need to be on top (Issue 474)
- Fixed: New NOS player requires one more URL call.
- Added: More paging to NOS channel
- Fixed: Duplicate items (fragments actually) in NOS channels (Issue 469)
- Fixed: Both NOS channels broke (Issue 469)
- Updated: New stream detection for NOS
- Updated: NPO.nl cookie
- Added: 3FM to npo.nl instead of in the TV.NL channels as their streams are no longer static (Thanks to Chris)
- Updated: NPO Cookie notification
- Moved: some streams from TV.nl were also in NPO.nl and working there (Issue 453)
- Fixed: 3FM stream
- Updated: UZG mobile hashing algorithm updated (Thanks to Daniel)
- Fixed: Added another cookie to UZG channel to prevent redirects (Issue 446)
- Fixed: UZG Mobile broke due encryption changes.
- Updated: RTL XL channel for Json and fixed minor parsing issue
- Changed: RTL channel now uses the new Json interface
- Updated: RTL 4 Logo
- Updated: RTL disclaimer
- Fixed: RTL added a cookie check and updated main index page
- Fixed: RTL now uses M38U streams and DRM items can not be played back.
- Fixed: SVT Channel items were not seen as channel if url was set to HTTPs
- Fixed: SVT https streams were not detected in m3u8 data (Issue 462)
- Fixed: SVT swf url updated
- Added: TV10.se (Issue 466)
- Fixed: SVT Öppet arkiv channel did not detect pages correctly (Issue 463)
- Changed: stream updating in SVT
- Fixed: Kanal 5 did not show all episodes due to missing dates in the json data (Issue 456)
- Updated: added subtitles for SVT Öppet arkiv (Issue 451)
- Fixed: URPlay.se changed site layout (Issue 455)
- Updated: Minor date issue in Oppetarkiv channel
- Updated: SVT Öppet arkiv channel
- Updated: Json code in Kanal9Play.se
- Fixed: Kanal9play.se did not find streams (Issue 447)
- Added: SVT Öppet arkiv channel.
- Fixed: SVT Play limited Ajax callbacks to 500 items (Issue 444)
- Fixed: Some Swedish channels missed the Avsnitt (Issue 441)
- Fixed: Radio 538 channel (Issue 473)
- Fixed: AT5 channel (Issue 472)
- Fixed: BBC iPlayer channel (Issue 442)
- Added: TWiT.TV Live streams
- Added: TWiT.TV channel
- Fixed: Nickelodeon channels broke (Issue 449)
- Added: Paging to nick channel
- Fixed: A bit smarter episode matching for Nickelodeon
- Changed: Try to determine titles for items without titles in the Nickelodeon channels
- Fixed: Nickelodeon channels did not play
- Fixed: Some programs were missing from kijk.nl main lists (Issue 448)