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Great channels!
I added HBO, CNET, and Internet Archives. Love the HBO content especially!
A few bugs...
In HBO and Internet Archives, if you are on the Details Page (the one where you can actually PLAY the video) if you hit Left or Right to go directly to another video, not only does it not move to that video, but it renders the Select button useless until you leave the channel. You press Select, the light blinks and you hear the click but it does not play anything (or go a level down if you are on the screen where you see multiple videos or the screen where you select the video category.) Once you leave the channel and re-enter it the Select button works again. The CNET channel functions properly... you can move laterally between videos without having to go up to the list each time, and the Select button continues to function. I think I saw the same bug on one of the other channels, MediaFly if I remember right, or maybe it was Blip.
A few videos on IA crashed my box, causing a reboot. Abbot & Costello Who's On First, and Rabbit Stew (Bugs Bunny, under Classic Animation) and one other under Classic Animation but I forgot which. Other videos played fine... The 1950s Wheaties Commercial, the Betty Crocker commercial, and a movie with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante (think it was called the Student or something? Description says he met a dancer and spent his money to bring her show somewhere.)
Also, would it be possible to include in the description a warning that something is audio-only (such as FULL episodes of Bill Maher) so you know before you play it that you don't get video? The CLIPS from Bill Maher have video, so it is a surprise the first time you play a full episode and no video appears. If this is not possible, no biggie-- it would just be a nice addition.
Thanks for your hard work, and I look forward to seeing more channels from you in the future!
I added HBO, CNET, and Internet Archives. Love the HBO content especially!
A few bugs...
In HBO and Internet Archives, if you are on the Details Page (the one where you can actually PLAY the video) if you hit Left or Right to go directly to another video, not only does it not move to that video, but it renders the Select button useless until you leave the channel. You press Select, the light blinks and you hear the click but it does not play anything (or go a level down if you are on the screen where you see multiple videos or the screen where you select the video category.) Once you leave the channel and re-enter it the Select button works again. The CNET channel functions properly... you can move laterally between videos without having to go up to the list each time, and the Select button continues to function. I think I saw the same bug on one of the other channels, MediaFly if I remember right, or maybe it was Blip.
A few videos on IA crashed my box, causing a reboot. Abbot & Costello Who's On First, and Rabbit Stew (Bugs Bunny, under Classic Animation) and one other under Classic Animation but I forgot which. Other videos played fine... The 1950s Wheaties Commercial, the Betty Crocker commercial, and a movie with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante (think it was called the Student or something? Description says he met a dancer and spent his money to bring her show somewhere.)
Also, would it be possible to include in the description a warning that something is audio-only (such as FULL episodes of Bill Maher) so you know before you play it that you don't get video? The CLIPS from Bill Maher have video, so it is a surprise the first time you play a full episode and no video appears. If this is not possible, no biggie-- it would just be a nice addition.
Thanks for your hard work, and I look forward to seeing more channels from you in the future!
"JoshuaMarc1234" wrote:
Hey Chris,
The Grateful Dead content on the internetarchive.org web site is great. I would not have know about this web site without your Roku Channel and have been able to download and/or record streams of a ton of shows I was at in the 80s, with date and track meta data all organized instantly in iTunes; they're all pretty good audio quality too.
Wow, great find for me - THANKS SO MUCH!
Not to Hijack the thread - BUT the real gems on Archive.org's dead library are the soundboards - thousands of them, Most (the ones not commercially released) are only available in streams.
Grab a copy of a program called RM DOWNLOADER. You feed it the stream and it downloads and splits out MP3 formatted.
BTW: archive streams play great on the iphone
