Problem with online media

[iconway]

After of update to 1.1.4 version I can’t connect to online media like radio stream or youtube, with 1.1.2 version I dind’nt have this kind of problem. Any idea to solve this problem?

[cadbusca]

I have no problem connecting to OLM with 1.1.4.
You might want to post specific links that do not work, but if none of them work then its something other than WIIMC that is the problem.

[ybshutmp]

I’m having the same problem. Youtube was working fine yesterday (I never tried any of the other online media sources), but today I just get “Error loading file.” for any online media (immediately after clicking Youtube, Shoutcast, whatever. I don’t get any kind of channel selection). And it is NOT something other than WiiMC that is the problem, because every single other program (including Shoutcast stream from some other media player and Youtube through the Internet Channel) is working perfectly. Downgrading to 1.1.2 didn’t help.

edit: With the lower version, it DOES prompt me to update and it DOES successfully download the update. So it’s not a problem with my connection or with WiiMC connecting to the network. But it’s not getting onto my FTP server either, not even a client connected message.

edit 2: “Navi Xtreme Media Portal” DOES work, I didn’t try it before because it sounded awful. And it IS awful, so it doesn’t really help me. And after connecting to it, the OLM menu has 2 entries for it, 2 entries for Shoutcast Radio, 2 entries for Shoutcast Search, and so on for everything. Wow, online media is pretty broken.

[rodries]

WiiMC’s web host just blocked YouTube and Shoutcast support (which are hosted on wiimc.org) so that’s why it doesn’t work.

[cadbusca]

The WIIMC support for Shoutcast and YouTube simply consists of scripts that can run on any php server. Many of us have our own php servers setup for VLC-Shares, and so can restore those scripts if the scripts were made available.

Unfortunately access to those scripts has been denied in the past even though this is supposed to be an “open” solution and there is nothing proprietary about such scripts other than the work to write them.

Others have made their “Youtube scripts” for accessing authors and playlists available, just as I have made my enhancement pack available, so in the same spirit it would seem appropriate for WIIMC to make its “YouTube” and “Shoutcast” scripts available as well.

[evil007]

So, why are they blocking support for this? Is there anything we can do different from our end?

[rodries]

They sent an email saying scripts of this nature are against their policy. Until we find a new (and permanent) host you’re out of luck.

[evil007]

Can we obtain the scripts and run them ourselves as you suggested. Who did all the work for this?

[rodries]

The scripts must run on a web server, and I think the majority of WiiMC users won’t want to run their own web server for this purpose. And no, the source for the scripts will not be made available.

[cadbusca]

OK folks this is not rocket science. How about one of you php knowledgeable people develop a youtube script for the rest of us to use. There are already youtube scripts for wiimc that can serve as a starting point.
Here is an extract from my “Guide to Using WIIMC’s YouTube Support” with those posts.

User Contributions
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You can also access any public YouTube PLAYLISTID. This was provided by boondoklife http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1030. Simply add these links to the onlinemedia.xml file.

<link name="YouTube – Defined Playlist ID" type="playlist" addr="http://mainwall1.us.to/youtube/?playlist=PLAYLISTID&quot; />
<link name="YouTube – ENTER PLAYLIST ID" type="search" addr="http://mainwall1.us.to/youtube/?playlist=&quot; />

You can also access the latest files uploaded by any YouTube USERNAME. This was provided by faceleg http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=926. Simply add these links to the onlinemedia.xml file.

<link name="YouTube – Defined USERNAME" type="playlist" addr="http://pagesofinterest.net/wiimc/youtube.php?type=user%26q=USERNAME&quot; />
<link name="YouTube – ENTER USERNAME" type="search" addr="http://pagesofinterest.net/wiimc/youtube.php?type=user%26q=&quot; />

[akisbel]

Hi folks, Im new here and just starting using wiimc, I love this programing and the online streaming, media, especialy the shoutcast radio, now, nothing plays says “unable to load file” with all online content, is there a fix/patch for this?
Jay.

[cadbusca]

I have my YouTube scripts almost working and will post them soon. In the meantime set up VLC-Shares so you will have a server to run them. Shoutcast is a different problem. You need a developers licence to access its playlists. You can however copy specific shortcuts off http://www.shoutcast.com in the form http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=1711239 and add them to onlinemedia.xml

[fsantani]

I wish that politics wouldn’t have prevented the use of such a good open source application. I installed it an used it for 2 days before they blocked it! There were over 100,000 downloads of this app. Hopefully someone finds a new permanent web host or developes new scripts to use.

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