Topic: Apple Movie Trailers (Read 103 times)

ragnar999 · « **on:** September 14, 2006, 12:10:00 AM »

Iv'e just discovered using scripts to surf the net and stuff with XBMC.

The 1st night i used it I was watching all these movie trailers from apple and everything worked great, that was tuesday night. now for some reason i can't veiw trailers in xbmc. I haven't made any changes, i just get these errors saying can't connect to http://apple..................... etc.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

P.s. I can use other scripts to watch porn on the net

so doesn't seem to be a problem with my xbox's network connection.

Something seems to have gone wrong with the movie trailer script built into xbmc.

silentbob343 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 15, 2006, 08:10:00 PM »

QUOTE(ragnar999 @ Sep 14 2006, 02:17 AM)

Iv'e just discovered using scripts to surf the net and stuff with XBMC.

The 1st night i used it I was watching all these movie trailers from apple and everything worked great, that was tuesday night. now for some reason i can't veiw trailers in xbmc. I haven't made any changes, i just get these errors saying can't connect to http://apple..................... etc.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

P.s. I can use other scripts to watch porn on the net (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) so doesn't seem to be a problem with my xbox's network connection.

Something seems to have gone wrong with the movie trailer script built into xbmc.

Same here, what version of XBMC are you using? I only ask because I want make sure it isn't XBMC related. My theory is the apple site has changed for support with Itunes 7 so the script will most likely have to be modified.

dxg836 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2006, 04:38:00 AM »

Not working for me either. Think it must be some sort of change at the Apple site that has caused it not to work anymore.

Are there any workarounds for it?

Are there any changes that need to be made to any xml files??

BreEil · « **Reply #3 on:** September 16, 2006, 09:37:00 AM »

same for me, i just updated to the latest tech3 release. an to make it worse i accidentally deleted my older version which had everything working

silentbob343 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 16, 2006, 12:27:00 PM »

I'm using the 8-9 release and I'll be going over to my brother's place today so I can see if his is still working. He is using the 7-23 IIRC. Anyway I think it is more likely the Apple site has changed since they have released some "new" products.

silentbob343 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 16, 2006, 09:39:00 PM »

yeah the apple messed with the site, doesn't work at my brother's place either.

sheepie · « **Reply #6 on:** September 17, 2006, 03:17:00 PM »

bah not working for me either with latest tech release, apple trailers has nice way to waste time when you had nothing to do

DManC · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2006, 08:21:00 PM »

ya its too bad there isnt a script for the website www.comingsoon.net

Its just as good, if not better for movie trailers..i cant believe no one has coded a script for that site yet.

silentbob343 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2006, 08:53:00 PM »

QUOTE(sheepie @ Sep 17 2006, 05:24 PM)

bah not working for me either with latest tech release, apple trailers has nice way to waste time when you had nothing to do

again I don't believe it has anything to do with the new tech release, it is apple's site that has changed. Doesn't work on mine, newer version nor my brother's, older version.

sheepie · « **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2006, 07:39:00 AM »

why would apple deny us accses? the whole point of the site is to promote films, which xbmc helps do

vesse · « **Reply #10 on:** September 18, 2006, 12:58:00 PM »

I noticed this too. It seems to me that Apple has changed the XML Schema. For example, when QuickTimeBrowser_utils.py tries to read Exclusive Movie Trailers from MAIN_INDEX_URL (http://www.apple.com...xml/h/index.xml), it uses path
/Document/ScrollView/MatrixView/VBoxView[1]/MatrixView.
The path is now
/Document/View/ScrollView/MatrixView/View/VBoxView
etc. (I didn't check which node would suite the needs of the script, so that path is probably not enough). If the changes are only minor (like added a View-node under Document-node), it should not be that hard to fix - though I'd guess that Apple has done more complex changes since it wouldn't make much sense to do just some cosmetic changes.

By the way, how can these scripts be debugged on a computer? The xbmc related libraries should be imported, but I'd think that somehing else is needed too (since the xbmc libraries probably do not work in my computer)? It is too slow to upload the modified scripts to the xbox and then run to the living room to test it and then come back again

silentbob343 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2006, 01:32:00 PM »

QUOTE(sheepie @ Sep 18 2006, 09:46 AM)

why would apple deny us accses? the whole point of the site is to promote films, which xbmc helps do

deny us access? They changed their website, all companies update and modify their websites. The script was written using the older site and now that they have changed it the script no longer works. Remember Apple launched some new stuff a week or so ago, the website updates were bound to happen. Go to apple's movie trailer section does it look different? I couldn't tell you because I never went there on a PC.

Also, no apple does not think about XBMC when updating their website or they would make their own script for us to download and use or keep a second site up that works with the existing script.

lwessman · « **Reply #12 on:** September 25, 2006, 01:56:00 AM »

XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) 2006-09-24 CVS T3CH build

...
* QTB (QuickTimeBrowser) has been removed. It stopped working.
Instead I include an ALPHA version of a new "trailer" script that is being created by Killarny & Nuka1195. Cheers guys!
NOTE! about new script, first time you run it, it takes quite a while (5 - 10mins depending on connection). Also note that script isn't finished, so lots may still change.
...

silentbob343 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 25, 2006, 03:38:00 AM »

QUOTE(lwessman @ Sep 25 2006, 04:03 AM)

XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) 2006-09-24 CVS T3CH build

...
* QTB (QuickTimeBrowser) has been removed. It stopped working.
Instead I include an ALPHA version of a new "trailer" script that is being created by Killarny & Nuka1195. Cheers guys!
NOTE! about new script, first time you run it, it takes quite a while (5 - 10mins depending on connection). Also note that script isn't finished, so lots may still change.
...

I'm going to update later tonight, but if anybody wants to weigh in and let us know how the new script works.......

lwessman · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2006, 08:30:00 AM »

QUOTE(silentbob343 @ Sep 25 2006, 11:45 AM)

I'm going to update later tonight, but if anybody wants to weigh in and let us know how the new script works.......

Any news on this?

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