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WIIMC+ and all of my guides are developed for and apply to Windows installs. They do not apply to Linux.

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I appreciate your note but unfortunately it’s a little late for that. I kept the first 20 enhancements separate but there has never been any interest shown in their incorporation, and in fact the responses I received to suggestions was so negative to any outside ideas that I gave up trying.

I appreciate all the work you guys have put into the “middle ware” and your continuing focus on correcting the bugs I have reported. By only building on your design I have pretty much kept the enhancements separate from your code and have not had to worry about conflicts when merging with the SVN’s, but because they were never accepted into the SVN’s, the enhancements are now interrelated and not separable into individual patches.

So bottom line is you guys continue to be free to change WIIMC to be the way you want it, and I continue to be able to extend it but not change it.

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Thanks dagert! I’ve revised the package to reflect the change to YouTube Retriever since it is the more common 32 bit library, and expanded the instructions accordingly. See version 3 abve.

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The original scripts and installation instructions have been revised again per dagert’s experience below and the corrected zip is posted above.

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My 1.1.5 starts fine, however I have experienced immediate crashes if the restore_points file was bad or did not exist. I have reported this as bug 352.
Try creating an empty restore_points.txt file with notepad and rename it to remove the .txt

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Subs are working fine in 1.1.5
Make sure you have subfont.ttf in your wiimc directory

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No, its another example of WIIMC+ not attempting to rewrite or modify the WIIMC design but rather to extend the functionality of WIIMC with an optional enhancement based on the existing WIIMC design, so as to ensure the greatest compatibility between the two implementations, and so as not to introduce bugs exclusive to WIIMC+. If and when WIIMC makes its Restore Points dynamic then WIIMC+ will do the same, just as it did when the browser was rewritten.

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You might want to use WIIMC+ which already has that feature and many more.

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So try one from the SD card! Then run the USB tests as at the top of the forum.

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Its not a WIIMC problem. I watch 2 hour videos all the time without problems. If you are accessing them via SMB then you should look for network problems. Try the same video from an SD card and see if it plays thru to verify this.

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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

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Another happy WIIMC+ User!

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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; />

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@reed wrote:

(Seems to be further than most people get on their own!)

Not sure where that came from. Apart from 2 people who did not follow the WIIMC+ instructions, I’ve heard from none of the other few hundred WIIMC+ users. Those who have gone on their own however probably have had problems but I assume you used the quik install libraries that I provided so you should have had none.

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I can get into the program with an “Unable to Load restore_points File” message.

You received this message because you failed to copy the “restore_points” file to your “wiimc-plus” directory as per the instructions. This file was created in the “wiimc” directory by WIIMC the first time you played a video file with WIIMC.

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I attempt to go into the online media menu, I get an exception and crash after “Reloading YouTube Playlist”.

This is happening because that “wiimc.org” link is currently broken. See http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1259
It should not code dump however and I will fix that but in the meantime go into settings/onlinemedia/onlinemedia folder and blank out the saved url(yes there is a wiimc bug there too, which I have reported(#350) so just keep hitting “BACK”), then change the Lock Onlinemedia folder to Always. This will cause OLM to always open at the main OLM menu instead of the last OLM link that you used.

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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.

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