Giant Bomb on Media Centers

Fair enough, thanks for replying and thanks for the great add-on :D

Any word on the video sorting issue for the boxee box app?

Updated the Boxee app. 
Fixed sorting problem, added the ability to watch live streaming from justin.tv/giantbomb

I picked up an Apple TV 2 today and immediately shoved XBMC onto it. :) Was surprised and happy to see a Giant Bomb video add-on and installed it, but unfortunately there seems to be an issue: I get the following issue (sent to xbmc.log): 

17:57:35 T:165810176 M: 88510464  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

17:57:36 T:165810176 M: 88498176   ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>
17:57:36 T:165810176 M: 88498176   ERROR: Error Contents: No module named whimai.wm
17:57:36 T:165810176 M: 88498176   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.giantbomb/addon.py", l$
                                                import whimai.wm as wm  
                                            ImportError: No module named whimai.wm
17:57:36 T:90595328 M: 88498176   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/
17:57:36 T:90595328 M: 88498176   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/) failed

I am also interested to see how to get giantbomb plugin to run on xbmc on appletv2. I did some looking and whimai.wm is already copied on to addons under /resources/lib

It looks like the Apple TV 2G's mappings of special://whatever/ are different from the Apple TV 1G, so the Python add-on looks to the wrong directory for files. I drew that conclusion after looking at this page:  http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Special_protocol 
 
So to fix the issue, you can simply replace the file located at  /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.giantbomb/addon.py with this file, or you can manually replace these lines in addon.py:  

 _resdir = "special://home/addons/" + _id + "/resources"
_datadir = "special://profile/addon_data/" + _id 

 _xbmcprefdir = "/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC"

_resdir = _xbmcprefdir + "/addons/" + _id + "/resources"

_datadir = _xbmcprefdir + "/userdata/addon_data/" + _id 

APIs.  Gotta love 'em.

There may be some issue with the script writing to /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.giantbomb/video.dat , but even with that solved the script appears to parse through 3000+ (at the moment, 3676) video items every time it runs, with a resulting long load time. I think I'll take a crack as a mildly revised version of the script that alters how the categories and files are pulled down? Maybe we can optimize the checks for new content.

After taking a deeper look last night I think you have it as optimized as it'll go, actually - a slightly faster version might be produced using the video feeds instead of the API, but that seems questionable too. I really like what you did with the categories, by the way - having it hosted externally where it can be centrally updated is very smart. 
 
I'll give implementing an add-on using the XML feeds a try today, mostly just to get re-acquainted with Python.

Hey BuggeX, I'm having a bit of trouble with this addon, when I run it, it creates the video.dat file (about 3 meg), but then it locks XBMC
Here's my debug log:

17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563690496   DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 61453 pressed, action is Select
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563612672   DEBUG: CApplication::ExecuteXBMCAction : Translating ActivateWindow(10024,"plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/")
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563612672   DEBUG: CApplication::ExecuteXBMCAction : To ActivateWindow(10024,"plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/")
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563612672   DEBUG: Activating window ID: 10024
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563612672   DEBUG: Checking if window ID 10024 is locked.
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563612672   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (Home.xml) ------
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563612672   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogFavourites.xml) ------
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563403776   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (MyVideo.xml) ------
17:53:01 T:3176 M:2563403776    INFO: Loading skin file: MyVideo.xml
17:53:04 T:3176 M:2560024576   DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/)
17:53:04 T:3176 M:2560024576   DEBUG:   ParentPath = [plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/]
17:53:04 T:3176 M:2560008192   DEBUG: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::StartScript - calling plugin Giant Bomb('plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/','0','')
17:53:04 T:3176 M:2560008192    INFO: initializing python engine.
17:53:04 T:3176 M:2560008192   DEBUG: new python thread created. id=4
17:53:04 T:3176 M:2560008192   DEBUG: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::WaitOnScriptResult - waiting on the Giant Bomb plugin...
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2560008192   DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2560008192   DEBUG: Python thread: start processing
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559930368   DEBUG:   msg: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559930368  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559930368   DEBUG: XBPyThread::Process - The source file to load is C:\Users\Richter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb\addon.py
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559930368   DEBUG: XBPyThread::Process - Setting the Python path to C:\Users\Richter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb;C:\Users\Richter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib;C:\Users\Richter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\script.module.pil\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\script.module.pysqlite\lib;special://xbmc/system/python/DLLs;special://xbmc/system/python/Lib;special://xbmcbin/system/python/python24.zip;special://xbmc/system/python\DLLs;special://xbmc/system/python\lib;special://xbmc/system/python\lib\plat-win;special://xbmc/system/python\lib\lib-tk;C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559930368   DEBUG: XBPyThread::Process - Entering source directory C:\Users\Richter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559627264    INFO: Loading skin file: DialogProgress.xml
17:53:04 T:1680 M:2559619072   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogProgress.xml) ------
17:53:05 T:1680 M:2559315968  NOTICE: SETTINGS UPDATE OK
17:53:05 T:1680 M:2559315968  NOTICE: ERROR IN DATA FILE
17:53:09 T:1412 M:2555846656   DEBUG: CDDSImage::Compress - using DXT1 (min error is: 18.71:0.00)
17:53:26 T:2156 M:2555613184   DEBUG: Thread 2156 terminating (autodelete)
17:53:29 T:4084 M:2556383232   DEBUG: Thread 4084 terminating (autodelete)
17:53:39 T:1412 M:2551918592   DEBUG: Thread 1412 terminating (autodelete)

Hey, lovin' the Boxee app, it's my most used thing on the Boxee funnily enough.
Anyway, I'm considering purchasing a WM membership and want to watch the member-exclusive Happy Hours on the Boxee GiantBomb app. I can't see a way to login from the app - is this possible?
 
Cheers

@Sully got your addon to load up on Appletv2 XBMC i don't have a subscription to see the content but everything before the content loaded up. Might be worth it if the HD content didn't eat up bandwidth =D

I can't get this add-on to work in XBMC on Apple TV 2.  I keep receiving the following error: "Error: script failed!: addon.py".  Other video plug-ins work fine. 

Apple TV is 4.2.1 and XBMC is 11.0.0 April 2011 build.

There is also a Giant bomb Script for Playon
I managed to adapt this script so that is retrieves all videos from all other Whiskey Sites, no membership support.
http://www.playonscripts.com/?w=view&id=292 - Whiskey Media Script by Xantar
http://www.playonscripts.com/?w=view&id=79 - Giant Bomb Script by hottammale

@Billisbrother: sound wiered, have you tried the Low video quality setting? I have an old mac mini some where will try to find it and see whats up

Any plan to support the preeden version of XBMC?

@kyotocafe: Currently no. Whiskey Media will sone release there own plugins/apps. I have stop all development on my plugins for now.

It looks like this plugin was updated at some point today in the XBMC repository.  I'm a little confused, seeing as how I'm just reading this thread for the first time and it appears you've stopped development on it.  Is the new version the official version that you speak of in your last post?  I ask this because I noticed it directs you to a URL on this domain to link an account, which suggests to me that it's officially endorsed on some level. 
 
In any event, thanks for the plugin.  I had never heard of Giant Bomb prior to seeing the plugin in the XBMC repo several months ago.  After discovering it I went through and watched all of the Quick Looks and loved every minute of it.

@sp0rkeh: Currently both the XBMC and BOXEE plugin has been replaced with the official Whiskey Media plugins. Cool to hear that you enjoyed my plugin :)

Is there any way to go back to the old one?

nvm found it

for anyone else: google for plugin.video.giantbomb-2.0.3.zip, throw that on a usb stick or ftp it over then choose install addon from zip file

Amazing!

This works on my old Xbox like a charm still.

How do I install the new official plug Giant Bomb Plug in on XBMC?

Thanks

@BuggeX: I just want to say thanks for all the time and work you put into the plugin before the official one came out, I really loved using it :)

i'd kill for a Giantbomb plugin for PS3 Media Server, but it's not really that popular, so it probably won't ever happen. I have used it to stream 1080p content to my PS3 for years now.

@Matt: thanks duder, glade to hear

@Buckfitches: could be interesting, maybe I will look into it if I get the time