XOT-Uzg v3.1.0

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  An XBox Media Center script which allows playback of streams from www.uitzendinggemist.nl. This version has options for streaming multiple past episodes from different TV Shows.
  
  Discussion of the script can be done in this thread at XBMC or in this thread at Tweakers (Dutch only). Issues regarding this script can be submitted at our Project Page at code.google.com.
  
  Download the latest version in 7z-format here: XOT-Uzg.v3.1.0.7z
  

• Please sir, can you spare a dollar?

  A lot of people are using XOT-Uzg now. On the 20th of januari 2008 we passed the border of 100.000 XOT-script starts. What if all those people would have donated 1ct each time they started XOT :D. It wouldn't make me rich, but heck, why not try to earn a bit on the side with my hobby? So if you are enjoying XOT and you can spare a some change (1$ or 1€) just donate it via PayPal!

• Changelog v3.1.0 - 2008-05-07 (Needs at least XBMC revision R10008)

  • Added: Auto Channel Updater
  • Changed: update now has a verbose option to also show a message if no update was available
  • Fixed: www.uitzendinggemist.nl introduced a SecurityCode to obtain the mediaurl. For now it is fixed by loading an extra page that holds that code.
  • Fixed: Regex for results in NOS Zoeken fine-tuned
  • Fixed: Dumpert.nl MediaUrlRegex
  • Fixed: Pagecontrols where showing for channel description labels
  • Added: Official SBS6.nl channel. The previous one now has PCZapper in it's name and description
  • Added: NET5 from www.net5.nl
  • Added: Veronicatv.nl
  • Fixed: Cosmetic changes to contextmenu
  • Added: self.defaultPlayer option to channels
  • Changed: Prevent addition of duplicate items in Mainlist
  • Added: more debugging info if an AttributeError occurs after importing libraries. This should give more information on what went wrong.
  • Fixed: on some XBox systems the timeout of on Open action would occur immediately due to a problem with the threading.join() method. (Thanks to Arnova [tweakers.net])
  • Fixed: Caching of thumb would not return the default self.NoImage if an exception occured.
  • Changed: GuiController now ignores exceptions that occur when non essential controls are missing from the skin file (like the channelinfo controls and rating controls).
  • Fixed: Contextmenu had disappeared in some channels
  • Fixed: RTL XML Layout changed

  Changelog v3.0.1 - 2008-03-11 (Needs at least XBMC revision R10008)

  • Added: more download algorithms
  • Added: more support for quicksilverscreen.com
  • Added: people who donated
  • Fixed: Searchregex www.uitzendinggemist.nl was not correct
  • Added: Swedish television SVT.se
  • Added: BeautifulSoup support via common.DoSoupFindAll
  • Added: chn_class.py now accepts lists/tuples for playback. They will be converted to playlists
  • Added: MyVideos.nl
  • Added: new pagenavigation images
  • Added: favorites now go into Database file
  • Added: sqlite2 library
  • Changed: context menu now uses onClick and works with mouse
  • Fixed: Crash on detection of script/plugin from within XBMC for Linux
  • Fixed: Crash on mouse movement when mouse is not over a control in ProgWindow.
  • Fixed: UrlJoin used for url creation in CreatePageItem
  • Fixed: GuiController check self.PluginMode
  • Added: Page support in XOT Plugin (they show as folders)
  • Added: XBMC version and compile date in Directory Printer
  • Changed: scrolling through pagelist now also allows from top -> bottom jump
  • Fixed: UZG changed their layout. ParseMainList now parses multiple pages

  Changelog v3.0.0 - 2008-01-28 (Needs at least XBMC revision R10008)

  • Changed: Item is now first pushed onto the history stack before fetching of new items, so the parent item can be called via the history stack (for descriptions for instance)
  • Changed: sort-order of Lama's channel
  • Added: Quicksilverscreen.com channel
  • Added: Ratings
  • Changed: Modified the www.uitzendinggemist.nl search channel to a 'specials' channel including search, popular items, newly added items, etc..etc..

  Changelog v3.0.0b2 - 2008-01-07 (Requires at least XBMC R10008)

  • Fixed: issue with getFocus() for GUI types that are XBMCGUI specific.
  • Fixed: Minor issue on NOS Page handling
  • Fixed: Progressbar dissappeared in NOS channel
  • Added: Favorites can now be every folder in each channel.
  • Changed: ContextMenu is moved from Channel to ChannelClass. In the Channel now has a self.contextMenuItems which is a list of ContextMenu.ContextMenuItems. Each item has a label, a callback function and an indication wether it should show on video/folder/completed items.
  • Added: Favorites
  • Added: Settings.xml
  • Added: contextmenu to 123video
  • Added: 123Videos.nl
  • Changed: chn_nos - NOS now only retrieves recent items and displays an archive folder with older items

  Changelog v3.0.0b1 - 2007-12-23 (Requires at least XBMC R10008)

  • Fixed: Kanalenkiezer.nl is now working again
  • Changed: Dumpert.nl icons renamed
  • Changed: 'De Lama's' Channel changed to not retrieve 1000 items, but only 500. This should solve timeouts opening the channel.
  • Fixed: Text not appearing in textboxes
  • Added: Better handling of xbmcplugin interface.
  • Changed: Fixed some overlaps in skins.
  • €euro;dded: Caching of items. On 'back' items are retrieved from the cache! This reduces the URL lookups dramatically
  • Added: self.pluginMode, if in plugin-mode, this variable is True
  • Added: initPlugin method to Channel. This one can be used to do the initialisation of a channel. Remember to add the self.pluginMode = True to this part.
  • Added: item.Downloadable indicates whether an item is downloadable. Should be used in the future to determine if it can be downloaded or not.
  • Added: Plugin support (dates still missing in listing)
  • Added: Dumpert.nl channel
  • Changed: had to remove some UI related stuff from the channels, to make sure they would work as a plugin.
  • Changed: channels may NOT contain any reference to objects of the XOT-Script UI. If they do, make sure to not adres them when in script mode.
  • Fixed: Joox.net channel
  • Added: if mediaurl is not filled in updatevideo, the item is always marked als not complete
  • Fixed: date is now grey when item is not selected in progwindow
  • Changed: mplayer and dvdplayer can now be selected explicitly. Defaults to the default XBMC player.

  Changelog v2.7.0 - 2007-10-12 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Added: Cachefolder cleanup
  • Added: New GTST episodes to RTL channel
  • Added: Channelnames in Programwindow
  • Added: Channeldescriptions in Programwindow
  • Added: Channeldescriptions to all channels
  • Added: item=complete checkmark
  • Fixed: RTL Error in Regex due to changes in XML layout
  • Changed: renamed self.onUpDownEnabled to self.onUpDownUpdateEnabled for better displaying its function
  • Added: Lama's channel
  • Added: self.CacheThumb to chn_class.py to automate the caching of thumbs

  Changelog v2.7.0b6 - 2007-10-05 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Fixed: RTL script updated for GTST (ParseMainList adds an extra item: GTST)
  • Fixed: RTL script updated. The XML layout changed a bit.
  • Added: an user agent to the uriopener (thanks to VincePirez @ xbmc forums)
  • Fixed: SBS Regex
  • Added: Date for programs in progwindow
  • Added: Option to disable sorting alphabetically and sort by date
  • Fixed: layout of Kanalenkiezer.nl changed. Had to adjust the regular expressions and urls.
  • Changed: no URL fetching on item selection. Only on click! (Done using the self.onUpDownEnabled = False).
  • Added: when self.onUpDownEnabled = False and ignore = False then only the data is shown and no update is done of the videoitem.

  Changelog v2.7.0b5 - 2007-09-01 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Changed: no onupdown for TVLink until the issues are fixed. Now update via contextmenu
  • Added: onUpDownEnabled to Channel settings and onUpDown(ignoreDisabled=True/False)
  • Added: Controlgroup for onUpDown to controls.py
  • Changed: self.initialUri to self.mainListUri. self.intialUri still exists, but is set when the Episode window opens (ShowEpisodeWindow)
  • Added: Progressbar for filling lists larger than 50 items
  • Added: Canceling of URL opening even if no data is comming in
  • Removed: Talpa as it now is RTL8
  • Added: Locking mechanisme to prevent multiple background updates (very Experimental)

  Changelog v2.7.0b4 - 2007-08-06 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Fixed: <string> error in XBMC log due to XOT logger
  • Added: Print directory of script on startup for debugging options
  • Fixed: KK channels where out of sync due to webpage layout!
  • Added: Locking for video update
  • Added: Don't break on not resolving www.rieter.net
  • Fixed: No more frenzy internet lookups: onUpDown now only starts after last onUp in 500ms
  • Changed: uriOpener now has private variables for methodes to prevent multithread problems
  • Added: New backgrounds for RTL, SBS and Talpa
  • Added: ConvertURLEntity and ConvertHTMLEntity in common.py (replacing StripHTML)
  • Added: maxXotVerison to channels. If XOT updates older channels may lead to conflicts, so they won't be loaded then.
  • Added: TV-Link.co.uk support (needs more file type detection)
  • Fixed: Changing list position while loading first item would lead to wrongly display item info on the newly selected one.
  • Added: Default compare value in progwindow channel comparison
  • Added: UriOpener.Header now also returns the real url after redirection

  Changelog v2.7.0b3 2007-07-28 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Added: Code.google.com page: http://code.google.com/p/xot-uzg/
  • Changed: Uitzendinggemist.v2 will be called XOT:Uzg (XBMC Online TV: Uitzendinggemst)
  • Changed: UZG is now based on seperate framework called: XOT (XBMC Online TV)
  • Added: Custom sorting of channels using SortOrder property
  • Changed: Chn_class.py is now completely UZG free
  • Changed: Media files that do not explicitly belong to UZG are renamed from uzg_ to xot_
  • Changed: Progwindow Skin
  • Fixed: Visibility on Panel now works
  • Added: Checking if image is present in SkinFolder. If it is present, that one is used, else the file in the channel folder is used
  • Changed: Media of channels now in channelfolder OR in skinfolder. The latter overwrites the former (skinfolder is the most important location).
  • Changed: Each channel has its own folder now: chn_name.py has to be located \name\chn_name.py
  • Changed: Moved chn_class to libs.
  • Added: New skin for progwindow
  • Added: Control groups for up/down and exit/back
  • Changed: Graphics for channels
  • Added: Possibility to have both a list of channels and buttons. Nr of buttons must be equal to number of channels
  • Changed: Register items to 'channelSelect -> channelRegister'
  • Changed: buttons are now registered from within the channelClass
  • Added: Dynamically load channels
  • Changed: Contextmenu and progwindow skin-name in config.sys
  • Changed: More UZG-name related stuff into the config.py
  • Added: appName to config.py
  • Changed: UpdateUrl now in config.py
  • Changed: UzgLog to logFile (for general purpose)

  Changelog v2.7.0b2 2007-07-14 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Removed: Some unneccessary imports
  • Added: UZG Logger class, not based on Python logging
  • Added: option to log exceptions in both UZG and XBMC log
  • Added: GUID for identification of cListItems
  • Added: Uriopener checks if filenames are in correct xfat format now
  • Fixed: Some bugs in Uriopener
  • Changed: Joox regex
  • Added: .flv detection to SBS6/PCZapper script

  Changelog v2.7.0b1 2007-07-02 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Added: registration of all channels in their own chn_name.py
  • Removed: PMIII skin. Now defaults to Default
  • Added: SBS6 support (from pczapper.tv)
  • Added: Progressbar information while opening
  • Added: complete contextmenu support (used AMT for inspiration but changed a lot). Menu is triggered by the Info Key/Button
  • Changed: renamed skin xml files to uzg-windowname.xml ("uzg-" added)
  • Added: ClearityMod skin
  • Fixed: MC360 skin
  • Added: config.py with all config stuff
  • Added: controls.py with all control and window ID's
  • Changed: Joox download enabled. Defaults to Cache Dir and uses item name as filename.
  • Changed: moved first load of www.uitzendinggemist.nl from default.py to chn_nos.py and added cookie check to chn_nos.py.
  • Fixed: integer instead of float value to progressbar dialog (float is decrepated)
  • Fixed: Minor bug playing KK streams
  • Changed: logging now happens in the 'uzg.log' file in the script folder of UZG. The logfile from the previous session is named 'uzg.old.log'.
  • Added: MultiLine Logger Class with Exception Handling
  • Changed: NOS Search now accepts multiple characters.

  Changelog v2.6.x 2007-06-20 (Requires at least XBMC R8683)

  • Added: Joox Support
  • Added: Version Checking
  • Changed: UriOpener now has False as default. Only True on data retrieval
  • Fixed: Skin list scrolling
  • Fixed: uriopener did not open file if filesize was smaller than chucksize
  • Changed: cleanup of uriopen method. Also adding more debuginfo
  • Changed: ListItem methodes to comply with XBMC R9198
  • Fixed: wrong tag in skin XML-Files
  • Fixed: re-initialisation of episode window after video playback
  • Fixed: MC360 skin
  • Changed: New Skinlayout, first draft
  • Fixed: Initialisation of Talpa-window continued even when login failed.
  • Added: The "Concept" skin.
  • Fixed: Errors due to very large amounts of URL's queueing up when scrolling an episode list fast.
  • Added: Talpa.tv Uitzendinggemist Support(READ 4.a below)

  Changelog v2.5.x 2007-05-16 (Requires WindowXML compatible XBMC)

  • Fixed: Problem with image-links in Default skin. Prevented correct display of images when the default skin was selected.
  • Added: PMIII skin.
  • Fixed: RTL 4,5&7 streams were not working due to server changes at RTL.
  • Fixed: Pixel column at left side of button removed.
  • Added: initial MC360 skin support (Still needs testing)
  • Changed: More NOS Uitzendinggemist history. All episodes present on the site should now be visible.
  • Fixed: cleaning of URL with &amp; insided the url.
  • Added: common.py has ID's for the used controls defined in channelwindow.xml.
  • Added: windowxml skinning support (See further down for more notes).
  • Changed: icons for channels/episodes
  • Changed: more robust checking for streams in Kanalenkiezer. Html is now filtered out before playback (had to check HTTP first) to prevent problems with mplayer.
  • Changed: location of constants changed to the channel-libary files.
  • Changed: all constants in CAPITALS, variable in camelCase and methodes in PascalCase

  Changelog v2.4.x 2007-04-24

  • Changed: to make things a bit more easy to maintain I changed from a single default.py to multiple files.
  • Added: seperate python scripts for libraries (libs), channels and a default.py.
  • Changed: each channel has it's own python file with instructions.
  • Fixed: on some systems the Cache dir was not present which prevented the script from running! Checking this now on startup.
  • Added: BETA support for www.kanalenkiezer.nl
  • Changed: search algorithm for www.uitzendinggemist.nl

  Changelog v2.3.x 2007-04-09

  • Fixed: lookup string was wrong due to missing Q, X and Y.
  • Fixed: no episodes were displayed if no date was found for episodes.
  • Added: Searching for NED1,2&3. Only one symbol can be used to search. Others will be neglected.

  Changelog v2.2.x 2007-04-09

  • Added: Progressbar support while loading an URL

  Changelog v2.1.x 2007-04-03

  • Fixed: scaling bug when using HD resolutions
  • Added: parsing of ASX/ASF for compatibility with older XBMC versions
  • Added: first support for RTL 4,5 & 7 (please use the XBMC forum link to let me know if there are bugs)
  • Added: icons for folders/video-files

  Changelog v2.0.x 2007-03-30

  • Added: animations
  • Changed: tabs instead of spaces for indentation
  • Added: readme.txt
  • Fixed: now again working with www.uitzendinggemist.nl
  • Fixed: working ASF streams
  • Added: support for multiple episodes of a programm
  • Changed: split window-class into to parts: program-window and episode-window
  • Added: new background
  • Changed: layout
  • Fixed: display most recent programms, instead of the first in alphabetical ranking

  Known Limitations

  • Not all Kanalenkiezer channels are working. This is a limitation of the www.kanalenkiezer.nl website. It cannot be fixed. I can override stream-urls. But therefore I need the correct URL's for the stream. You can mail them to: uitzendinggemist.vx[@t]gmail[d0t]com with a clear description of the channel and stream URL.
  • Older XBMC builds do not completely support playing of ASF playlist files and streaming will fail. Updating to a more recent build of XBMC will solve the problem.
  • Very often the problem is not the script but the site that is having the problems! So before you start posting/writing-e-mails/sending-me-logfiles CHECK THE WEBSITES of the channels first. Go to www.uitzendinggemist.nl, www.tien.tv, www.rtl.nl, joox.net and/or www.pczapper.tv to see if the websites are up and running. If they are not working, neither will Uitzendinggemist.v2!

• Skinning

  Future versions of Uitzendinggemist.v2 require a build of XBMC that supports WindowXML. Such a version can be found at the ussual places.

  Skin Development (Users won't need to read this)

  New skins need to follow these guidelines to function correctly:
  • A skinfolder must be placed inside the folder 'scripts\<scriptfolder of uitzendinggemist>\skins'
  • Uitzendinggemist uses the same folder-name to lookup the skin as the foldername XBMC is using. So the skinfolder for Uitzendinggemist.v2 should have the same name as the folder in which the XBMC-skin is present. E.g. for MC360: the XBMC skin-folder for MC360 is called 'skins\MC360'. So the folder that holds the skin for Uitzendinggemist.v2 should also be called 'MC360' and should be located in the '<scriptfolder of uitzendinggemist>\skins\' folder (which is usually scripts\uitzendinggemist\skins\'.
    If no identically named folder is found. The skin located in the 'Skins\Default' folder is used.
  • Inside the skin-folder should at least be a 'Media' and 'PAL' folder. The Media folder holds all the images and the PAL folder the XML for the PAL oriented skins (See XBMC Wiki for more info on skinning-folders).
  • The XML files that need to be present are called 'progwindow.xml' and 'channelwindow.xml'.
  • IMPORTANT: Never remove the items which have ID's. These are mandatory for the script.
  • Their appearance can be changed. But they may NEVER be removed. They should keep their ID's.
  • The 'progwindow.xml' holds all the layout for the main window from where the channels can be chosen.
  • The 'channelwindow.xml' holds all the layout for the episode windows. This is the windows from where you can select the episodes.
  If you have made a skin, please mail it to me at uitcrapperzendingcrappergemist.crappervx@gcrappermail.cocrapperm so it can be included in future releases.

• Acknowledgement

  Uitzendinggemist v2.0 is a continuation of a script by BaKMaN (http://xbox.readrss.com). Basic idea and part of the scripting credits go to him or any other previous developer.

Copyright © 2007 Bas Rieter, All rights reserved. | Best viewed in Mozilla FireFox 1.5+

Last updated on Wednesday 07-05-2008, 23:44