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[Tom]

Fun while it lasted!

 

[Revels]

I only did it about a week ago

 

[Gavin.]

Do you think they will find a new file host? They put a post on the home page regarding just that.

Even if they do, thats a lot of uploading needed to get anywhere near what they had.

 

[Tom]

You could use another host, but it would take months to reconstruct that amount of data. I'm assuming they have a plan. I've heard Dropbox being banded about but they will probably suspend users.

 

[Gavin.]

Like you say, I am sure there will be some sort of back up plan. It will be business as usual in a few weeks more than likely.

 

[Rob]

Was it that content rich? I'm a bit disappointed I never got it now!

 

[Gavin.]

Just a little bit lol

 

[C.J]

Was it that content rich? I'm a bit disappointed I never got it now!

Yes. Literally everything was on there. Everything.

 

[James28]

Oh my days . My atv is now essentially pointless.
Well not as such, but a massive use I had for it now is

Its almost as if XBMC forum knew it was coming, literally only took the thread on IF down last week..

 

[C.J]

Its almost as if XBMC forum knew it was coming, literally only took the thread on IF down last week..

I thought that. They washed their hands of IF.

 

[James28]

Guess I could sign up for a netflix free trial whilst we find out what happens to it!

 

[Ronnie R]

f**king great. Not long purchased this also got my dad one for Christmas.

Just seen a text from him saying it's not working, then check on here.

 

[Gavin.]

It's looking like Boxee, netflix or lovefilm for the time being

 

[James28]

Ohh. It was perfect for the half month I had it.
If there was nothing I wanted to catch up on, or nothing on live with TVcatchup, I always just wacked a film on.
Gutted.

 

[Gavin.]

Just been on the site, they have had a mega clear out. All megaupload stuff has gone and they have moved onto 2shared, what is left is a tiny percentage of what they did have.

 

[James28]

Are you referring to IF Gman?
Just installed the Navi-X addon. Bit confusing but some content on there.

 

[C.J]

Just been on the site, they have had a mega clear out. All megaupload stuff has gone and they have moved onto 2shared, what is left is a tiny percentage of what they did have.

Through the IF addon, are there many shows left?

 

[Revels]

I think they'll get back new stuff like Dexter or whatever but the very first episodes of old old old things aren't going to be back for a while.

As long as they keep new films etc, then that'll do me fine.

 

[Gavin.]

Are you referring to IF Gman?
Just installed the Navi-X addon. Bit confusing but some content on there.

Yes I was mate, i'll have a look at that one later. Cheers

Through the IF addon, are there many shows left?

Through the website and no lol

I think they'll get back new stuff like Dexter or whatever but the very first episodes of old old old things aren't going to be back for a while.

As long as they keep new films etc, then that'll do me fine.

Agreed, everything is user uploaded anyway so new stuff will appear first, it will just take time.

 

[James28]

So people will upload to other sources, and then over time IF will add these sources to its directories, and slowly will build up its content again do you reckon?

 

[Gavin.]

Yup thats what will happen, it will take a while though. Just tried Navi-x, what a mess that is lol

 

[Tom]

Navi-x is clearly written by someone who uses Linux what a load of s**t.

 

[Gavin.]

I was thinking the same, i was just a little more subtle.

 

[Tom]

But, it works.

 

[Gavin.]

True, we have to work with what we have I suppose.

 

[James28]

Haha, I still don't really get it.

So far I've worked out:
Navi-Xtreme Media Portal > Most-viewed 24 hour / 7 days > then click one of the folders that comes up and just have a look through them..

Although half of the films I've tried don't appear to do anything. Other than that don't really get it!?

Netflix is alright. Watch Seven Pounds. Though the content seems really disappointing.

 

[C.J]

I've just been messing around with Navi X. Seems ok, just not user friendly.

Everything I've tried works.

 

[James28]

C.J your not the chess champion off Eggheads are you?

So am I doing it right!?

 

[James28]

Went on the IF Add on yesterday, there's still more content than I thought.
Although none of the 2shared sources seem to work. Just say "working" then nothing happens.

 

[Ronnie R]

Went on the IF Add on yesterday, there's still more content than I thought.
Although none of the 2shared sources seem to work. Just say "working" then nothing happens.

They seem to work on the iMac XBMC. Just not on ATV.

 

[James28]

Got one of them working earlier. Got to about 1 minutes in, froze, then just quit back to the source screen.
I hate it when it does that, I get it quite often, not just on IF.

 

[C.J]

I've started using NaviX instead. Watched New Girl ep1-7 over the last few nights, but tonight it gave up and wouldn't play ep8-10

Seems ok, nowhere near as good as IF though (layout).

 

[Gavin.]

Rapidshare links have been added to if. Cant be a bad thing as 2shared is shocking.

 

[C.J]

Rapidshare links have been added to if. Cant be a bad thing as 2shared is shocking.

How does it function through ATV?

 

[James28]

I've worked out Navi-X I think. You can just do a search, and it comes up with all the playlists with the title of the thing you've searched in.
Only thing I miss about IF is the popular/highly rated lists. Most of the time I don't know what I want to watch, so just looked for something from there.

Pretty sure when you go on IF, when you click on a title, they've just added more sources, which now include the rapidshare ones.

Mines really frustrating at the moment. I can't remember the last time I watched something streamed over, where it didn't either pause and just quit halfway through, or buffer every two mins, or freeze, or something. No matter what I'm using, On IF, Navi-X, TVcatchup, 4od. .

 

[Gavin.]

Try clearing the cache as that can cause stuttering apparently: http://www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=88073

 

[James28]

Yea cheers. I changed the advancedsettings.xtml a while back. Seemed to cure it. But since getting Navi X its doing it again.
Am I right in thinking the 2shared sources still don't work on ATV? Still getting the "working" pop up then nothing..

 

[James28]

A while back I made a file "advancedsetting.xml" in word and saved it as an .xml and copied it into the Preferences > XBMC > user data a while back with the following:

<advancedsettings>
<network>
<cachemembuffersize>0</cachemembuffersize>
</network>
</advancedsettings>

This is quoted from the XBMC Wiki
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cnetwork.3E

<network>
<autodetectpingtime>30</autodetectpingtime> <!-- Length in seconds between pinging the network to detect new xbox's -->
<curlclienttimeout>10</curlclienttimeout> <!-- Timeout in seconds for libcurl (http/ftp) connections -->
<curllowspeedtime>5</curllowspeedtime> <!-- Time in seconds for libcurl to consider a connection lowspeed -->
<httpproxyusername></httpproxyusername> <!-- username for Basic Proxy Authentication -->
<httpproxypassword></httpproxypassword> <!-- password for Basic Proxy Authentication -->
<cachemembuffersize>5242880</cachemembuffersize> <!-- number of bytes used for buffering streams ahead in memory
XBMC will not buffer ahead more than this. WARNING: for the bytes set here, XBMC will consume 3x the amount of RAM -->
</network>

What value have people put in there?

 

[Gavin.]

Yea dont set it as "0" as that will give you no buffer, that will cause it to skip

 

[James28]

Oh. People on the XBMC forum seemed to reckon that meant there was no limit to the buffer size.
You don't know what value to put in there do you?

Its not skipping, just pauses, then quits. Or plays about 2 minutes, then buffers for ages again.