readme.txt

XOT: XBMC Online TV Framework

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 Uitzendinggemist v3.x.x                                                                   
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 Contents
 1. Introduction
 2. Changelog
 3. Skinning
 4. Known Issues
 4a.How to get Talpa working???
 4b.Some channels are not working? How come?
 5. Acknowledgements
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 1. Introduction
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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 at this thread at the XBMC Forums. Please post any 
problems/suggestions in either of these threads:
 - http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?p=130060) 
 - Most recent XBMC thread at http://gathering.tweakers.net (Dutch only)

Download the latest version at: 
 - http://www.xbmcscripts.com or http://www.rieter.net/uitzendinggemist/

Direct contact can be done using the following e-mailadres: 
 - uitzendinggemist.vx[@t]gmail[d0t]com

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 2. Changelog
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Changelog v3.0.0b2 - 2008-01-07 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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.

Changelog v3.0.0a1 - 2007-11-25 ****Needs at least XBMC revision R10008 ****
* Added: 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 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 - 2007-07-27 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 - 2007-07-27 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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 ****Needs at least XBMC revision 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)