GiantBomb VIdeo plugin for XBMC media center

UPDATED, Current Version 1.5:

• Extract the zip file to you XBMC video plugin folder, usaly:
  Windows Vista: \Users\$UserName$\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\plugins\Video 
  MAC: $HomeFolder$/Libary/Application Support/XBMC/plugins/video 

Features

• Play all videos from GiantBomb.com
• List all videos or choose a category
• Two sort methods (Title, Date)
• Choose between High (1500 kbit/s) or Low (700 kbit/s ) video quality
  

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oh cool I have been thinking about using xbmc when i build a htpc

That is pretty sweet.

Cool, I've also made this. :)
 
 

This is a great idea, I was hoping something like this would pop up sooner or later. I use Plex right now on my media center, and I long for a way to browse Giant Bomb videos through it. Looking forward to seeing more.

Any updates on this? I've wanted to watch Giant Bomb videos on XBMC for a long time.

It would be great if you could set it to play the endurance run non stop in order.

 
OK, so here is a xbmc plugin I made for giantbomb, it gives you the 20 latest videos. I hade made one which hade categories (persona endurance, tang, interview etc.) but the new site design broke it. So this will have to do.

 http://web.comhem.se/~u55784102/giantbomb_new.rar

I have released the plug-in, see the beginning of the thread.

Had some trouble getting it to work on my Xbox for some reason.. Eventually, after looking through the log file I created an empty video.dat in the plugin directory (as it couldn't create it for some reason?) and it worked fine then. Though I can't properly sort by date when using it. It's stuck on sort by date oldest>newest and I can't change it.. Hmm.  
 
Any chance you could add some options to set? Primarily the video quality. Looks from the code it's hard set to 1500? I'd like to be able to select medium if possible (700 I think that is). 
 
Grand plugin though. 
 
Edit: After a little looking around, looking at some other code, I found I could add  " xbmcplugin.addSortMethod( handle=int( sys.argv[ 1 ] ), sortMethod=xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_DATE ) "  early inside the addVideosFile() method (I placed it as the fourth line) and now when I go into each directory I can change the date sort. Certainly a horrible fix, but works until someone with a firmer grasp of the coding gets a look. 
 
Still can't see a way to get 700 medium quality.. It looked like it would be an easy change but it still streams 1500's.

Released version 1.1
Changes:

• Added two sorting methods (Title and Date)
• Possible to choose video quality (High, Low)

Thanks for those changes. Installed the new version and had a go with it. Sorts how I want it to and even low (700) is totally watchable for me on my tv. It streams in a lot nicer too (had the occasional hiccup on 1500 for me... Aussie broadband I guess).

Thanks for this.

What's XBMC? Because I want to be able to watch the endurance runs on my tv

XBMC is an application for viewing/streaming video from your network. There are versions for most major OS's, but the program itself was originally developed for use on original Xbox's that were modified. Honestly, it's still the easiest way I've found to watch video streamed to my tv. 
 
Since it's PC release I believe it's become quite popular as a home theater PC interface. 
 
Edit:  http://xbmc.org/

Lookin' good... nice work!

Ok. I see how it works. Any chance they're going to do something for any of the current consoles? Or maybe make their own media device for the TV?

Released version 1.2 
See the top for the thread

Excellent script. Thanks! For XBMC on Linux I had to change the Default.py to default.py due to case sensitivity.

BuggeX, I've been reading through your source code, and forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why do you need video.dat file? Are you not just passing through the Giantbomb link to the actual FLV file to XBMC? Thanks for your help.

Released version 1.3
See the top for the thread   
Also released ComicVine Videos plugin

You have a "1 off" error in your script. This makes it so the last video in the dbase (most recently added on the site) isn't ever shown.

Any news on this great plugin being added to the SVN Repo Installer?

 Released an update correcting a couple of errors, all videos should now be available again, see the top for the post.   
@Matt:    I will look into this, hopefully next week   

Can you move the updateVideos() call to be under "if mode==None:"? Sometimes after viewing a video it will get stuck in a loop trying to update the video db and ultimately trash it. Have to delete it and have it rebuilt. I think it's when they add a video from the time you started watching something. Moving that call will make it so it only updates the video.db when your at the main category menu.

Add support for boxee and created a new thread in General Discussion with more information here

@BuggeX Are you planning to update the plugin to work with the Dharma release of XBMC?

This thread is now only for version 1.X for XBMC version Camelot or older. Check this thread for the newest version. I'm no longer self using this version of the plugin, so if any problems occur please contact me (PM or write in the thread) so I can fix it as quickly as possible.