Free Cable - no channel works get the script error

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installed the latest plugin
2. Start XBMC
3. Navigate to Free Cable, click on history channel
4. Try to load any episode get the below error in the logs

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The channel should load but i get a script plugin error

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
XBMC 12.1 and Windows 7 64 bit

Please provide any additional information below.
Log file attached. Please advise for all the channels. None of them are working.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rohit.ra...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2013 at 6:28

Attachments:

• xbmc.log

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I get this same error as well, no channels are working. I am using XBMC 12.1 on 
a apple tv 2

Original comment by chadcame...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2013 at 7:03

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Same issue on 12.1 on Windows 8 x64 in A&E & History Channel. MTV works fine, 
though.

Example of the error in A&E:

 start of FREE CABLE plugin
23:25:59 T:3028   ERROR: 
C:\Users\JK\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.free.cable\resources\lib\ae
tv.py:20: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib 
module instead
                                              import sha as sha1
23:25:59 T:3028  NOTICE: FREE CABLE --> common :: getURL :: url = 
http://www.aetv.com/duck-dynasty/video/bass-man-standing-24172099791
23:25:59 T:3028   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python 
callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>
                                            Error Contents: list index out of range
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "C:\Users\JK\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.free.cable\default.py", line 68, in <module>
                                                modes ( )
                                              File "C:\Users\JK\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.free.cable\default.py", line 64, in modes
                                                exec 'sitemodule.%s()' % common.args.sitemode
                                              File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
                                              File "C:\Users\JK\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.free.cable\resources\lib\aetv.py", line 223, in playThePlatform
                                                except:mrss = urllib.unquote_plus(base64.b64decode(re.compile('"mrss=(.+?)&').findall(data)[0]))
                                            IndexError: list index out of range
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
23:25:59 T:8680   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path 
[plugin://plugin.video.free.cable/?url="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aetv.com%2Fduck-dynasty
%2Fvideo%2Fbass-man-standing-24172099791"&mode="aetv"&sitemode="playThePlatform"
]
23:26:02 T:9180  NOTICE: Thread Background Loader start, auto delete: false
23:26:03 T:976  NOTICE: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: false
23:26:04 T:976  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
23:26:04 T:976   ERROR: 
C:\Users\JK\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.free.cable\resources\lib\_c
ommon.py:11: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib 
instead
                                              import md5
23:26:04 T:976  NOTICE: addoncompat.py: XBMC Revision not available - Version 
String: 12.1 Git:20130317-0d373cc
23:26:04 T:976  NOTICE: 

Original comment by john.kal...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2013 at 3:45

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I am having the Same problem,,I updated everything..at least I think...but here 
is my Log file...Please help....I attached it and by the way I am also having 
issues with Channel 1.

Original comment by zvifox...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 2:20

Attachments:

• [xbmclog .log](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/bluecop-xbmc-repo/issue-219/comment-3/xbmclog .log)

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Completely uninstall everything and then re-install everything. This is what I 
had to do with the Add-on.

Original comment by rohit.ra...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 3:01

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ok..ill give it a shot...Thank You

Original comment by zvifox...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 4:41