Unable to play any video

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open mediaportal
2. open online videos
3. select video to play

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected: plays the video
actual: message "unable to play video, no url" displayed

What version of MediaPortal are you using? On what operating system?
1.2.2.0 on Windows XP Home SP3

What skin?
skin: DefaultWide v1.2.0.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by linky...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 2:16

Attachments:

• MediaPortalLogs_30_01_12__14_03.zip

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Why do you say unable to play _ANY_ video? 
What sites did you try? YouTube? Did buffering start?

Original comment by bborgsd...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 5:05

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I tried bbc iplayer, youtube, southpark, and dailymotion they all said 
0% buffered, then get the error i mentioned earlier

Original comment by linky...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 5:10

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Did you install LAV Filters with OnlineVideos? YouTube is 100% working here and 
if those videos don't play it must be some codec or firewall problem.

Original comment by bborgsd...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 5:16

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I have installed lav filters but it did need updating before the filter 
test would work (although the mov filter does not work). I also manually 
installed an ax file using regsvr32.

The system is a fresh install of Windows XP home sp3 (fully updated), no 
av or third party software or firewall has been installed at this stage. 
Hence why I reported it as a bug.

I allowed MP to access the internet with the windows firewall, unless 
there is an issue with the windows firewall and MP.

Whilst typing this, I remembered, my network does consist of a dual wan 
router, connecting a 24mbps and 8mpbs adsl connections. The router uses 
load balancing, which switches the pc to whichever ADSL connection has 
the most bandwidth available. I may have to try the system on just one 
of the lines, or set a static rule to force it down just the one line. 
I'll give it a go when I get back.

Original comment by linky...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 10:32

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The dual WAN is certainly a problem. It gives you two different external IPs, 
which will break most of the stuff OnlineVideos relys on when scraping websites 
for their videos.

Original comment by bborgsd...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 11:49

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Hi,

After testing this morning I get the same error with a single WAN 
connection. I also dropped the windows firewall, which did not help either.

James

Original comment by linky...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 12:01

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i uninstalled and reinstalled onlinevideos again which resulted in bbc 
iplayer and youtube working with windows firewall up, and dual wan, but 
southpark still fails with the same error

Original comment by linky...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 1:04

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a) Southpark World is broken at the moment
b) Of course not _ALL_ sites work at any given moment! The web is ever changing 
so scraping content is always in progress.

Original comment by bborgsd...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 1:20

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I believe there was an issue, as ANY site I tried did not work at all 
yesterday, or this morning. I find it a bit too much of a coincidence that 
youtube, iplayer, southpark, and all the other sites I tried wouldn't work 
yesterday.

I exhausted all avenues yesterday before reporting what I thought to be a bug. 

I now accept that it must have been an issue during installation, and 
subsequent reinstallations of the plugin. One note though... on the last 
install, I unticked "protect my computer and data from unauthorised program 
activity" maybe this was a cause or partial cause of the problem.

In any case, this issue can be closed, as it appears to be resolved.

Original comment by cassist....@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 1:36

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ugh posted from works google account by mistake

Original comment by linky...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 1:41

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I guess "protect my computer and data from unauthorised program activity" is an 
XP feature? I have never seen such box - I'm using Win7 only.

Original comment by bborgsd...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 1:53

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