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FMoviesPlus - Discussion Thread - The new and better one... #33

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coder-alpha opened this issue Jul 12, 2018 · 640 comments
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FMoviesPlus - Discussion Thread - The new and better one... #33

coder-alpha opened this issue Jul 12, 2018 · 640 comments
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coder-alpha commented Jul 12, 2018

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@coder-alpha coder-alpha added the Discussion Discussion Thread label Jul 12, 2018
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Oldpapa commented Jul 12, 2018

Closed?

@coder-alpha
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@Oldpapa - Still contemplating to keep it open or closed since its not an issue thread and the discussion can still carry on if its tagged closed...

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Oldpapa commented Jul 12, 2018

That is true.. I was thinking of renaming Fmovies to something else or take over the G2G part and have it host?

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@Oldpapa - Sure, I encourage active development and also pull requests.
Btw, I did send a pull request to @ukdtom for adding G2G today, but if you'd like to take over please feel free and let me know.

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Oldpapa commented Jul 12, 2018

No problem, I'm not that smart.. I do programming on Arduino IDE for work and a product we used will drop off because of a company bought that company. I was thinking how to fake Fmovies to Plex.. Start up the old something and have no name spoken as Fmovies for you know who..
Sorry if you misunderstood.. I'm nearing retirement (I hope by 70) and maybe can learn that.

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ukdtom commented Jul 12, 2018

G2G is now part of the UAS ;)

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Oldpapa commented Jul 13, 2018

Someone at plex must not like you alpha. They removed g2g posts

@flickfanboi
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All right! Cool that you created a thread. Not too pleased that your thread was unceremoneously deleted at that other site without warning. Glad to have found you. Thanks for keeping up your support to a great plugin!

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Oldpapa commented Jul 14, 2018

What is nice is the plugin will show that a new update is available to get.

@flickfanboi
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Yes. That's nice.

@bellpark17
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Glad to see your commitment to keep things going alpha

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JamminR commented Jul 15, 2018

*** JamminR waves at everyone.

I'll be here occasionally too. Really hate that I now have to monitor two places, but, meh, apparently there's not much we can do.

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Oldpapa commented Jul 15, 2018

Yup. They took the new g2g.fm off too.
They have someone that out for alpha.
And other ones still active.

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I still cant get plex to install on my computer so im using my dirty old laptop which is a bit hit and miss and the plugin isnt working properly but im getting by atm.
Many many thanks to coder-alpha and others for the work you have put in to keep this plugin running it is much appreciated by me and many others....Thank you

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JamminR commented Jul 25, 2018

So I'm bored, tired, still frustrated with Plex for removing the release thread.
I just reported 4 release threads at the Plex forums for web site Terms Of Service violations
NFL, Google Music, ABC and Disney Jr - Gave links to the TOS and copy/paste of exact text where each says, summarized, 'you can't scrape our content".
ChuckPA messaged me on all 4 and said same "Thanks for letting us know. We’re looking into it."
My belief is they won't be removed. Which will frustrate me even more.

EDIT - I believe my next step would be to send nods, electronically (I'm not so bored or tired as to use paper) to the legal department contacts of each company stating Plex forums are allowing for discussion of TOS mis-use.

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@JamminR
Yeah those things crossed my mind too but in the end I don't think it helps anyone. I mean I do still believe that in the end the User should be left with those choices. I mean if FMP provides someone the same tool that MakeMKV does by converting their Bluray disk into an Mp4 format file that they can put in Plex then no one has the legal right to stop them.

I was almost tempted to post this youtube video on the Plex forum and ask Plex which side of the fence they stand ?

Apple COPYRIGHT STRIKED my Channel! - ZONEofTECH

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I must say that Plex has chosen a slippery path... Their new censoring attitude could, maybe, bring appreciation from investors who hypocritically shrink from apps that THEY do not see as totally "legit", but will cost them a lot of users, which will not be very appreciated by the same investors... I, for one, lost almost all interest in their forum and I'm even looking around to find alternatives to Plex itself...

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Oldpapa commented Jul 26, 2018

I'm sure Plex Pass support will become thin as ones or are monthly and yearly slowly drop away.

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coder-alpha commented Jul 27, 2018

@Oldpapa Well to be honest the life-time Plex Pass even though is a good deal but has not benefited me much. I guess I'm contradicting myself here in hope that it will one day ;)

  • The access to early developmental versions is more a headache if you install. I typically now wait and check even the stable release forum posts before making an upgrade.
  • They have tried to build and support too many client too soon and the new Android App now sucks (my personal feeling). The Plugin menu doesn't show up at times, it changes to my NAS PMS server instead of my PC server automatically, blah blah blah..
  • And what I thought would be good to have as a Plugin developer but that was not the case. Since the time I joined, I guess 5+ years I have not seen any bug fix or new features for Channels and my request for Subtitles support still lingers.

Well enough of the rant.. I'll probably post a new Dev version either tonite or tomorrow for extending the Downloads feature. I suggest to install it once your previous Downloads are finished since it may not be backward compatible with your existing list.

EDIT: New /dev version is now up https://github.com/coder-alpha/FMoviesPlus.bundle/tree/dev

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JamminR commented Jul 29, 2018

Anyone else having issue entering the Plug-in today?
I've not used it in a week or two. I upgraded to PMS 1.13.5.5291 Friday, 2 days ago.
I attempt to go in today, and it times out 3/4 times, using web, or IOS.
I've restarted PMS. Haven't tried restarting the actual OS yet.

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@JamminR same here.. seems like the site is running slow. Was getting http code 0 or plugin not responding.

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Oldpapa commented Jul 30, 2018

Sorry, I did not not get back on this too.. On Roku 3 it seems to be sluggish..
I have an Android TV box with PLEX and it works much better on that than the Roku..
I prefer the Android box over the roku..

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coder-alpha commented Aug 7, 2018

Havn't been getting a lot of time to really test out the new /dev branch for it to be posted to /master.

Just to elaborate on the new Auto-Pilot feature. The feature allows downloading based on prefs you define when setting it up and that allows downloading full season of shows. So you do have to define it wisely. Settings to download a show with 1080p quality or size greater than 2GB will result in no downloads since almost all shows are of lower quality/filesize.
Also, since this allows only download BRRIP quality one can essentially set it up for an upcoming movie and then everyday at the default time (defined under the Settings) a scheduler looks for an appropriate match and you can expected unexpected treats show up in your Plex movie library *wink * wink *

Edit: And it uses the Download Sources module and not the direct OpenLoad/Streamango server links.

Hope that explains a lil of that feature.

Note: It seems Mega has changed something and the downloader always gives an error and so recommend disabling it if you've been using it.

@bellpark17
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Hello friends........I hope you are all well. The last couple of days all i get when i try to watch something is "other seasons",people search...ect........any help would be much appreciated. Im thinking about deleting Plex and starting again.
Best of health to you all...

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Missymusic commented Aug 7, 2018

Same for me as bellpark17, using roku, firestick and win10, no sources on any of them, external or otherwise, tried fresh install of fmp, restarting all, no luck

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bellpark17 commented Aug 8, 2018

Thanks for your post Missymusic......saving me a heap of time playing around with it knowing its not just me

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Missymusic commented Aug 8, 2018

@bellpark17 from the main page, If you go to external listings, go to type and change it to whatever you are looking for, say shows, then go to shows>updated>all>descending , you can get some items on the external sources, when you find what you want, it is slow to load so give it some time....

@coder-alpha
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@bellpark17 Plugin is facing some issues due to changes on the website. More here > Issue 39

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Okay but which URL are you casting from? Plex FMP ? Fmovies.taxi?

Completely outside of Plex. I've been using ffmovies.ru for some time now (I'm in US) and it works fine, but any of the fmovies mirrors should work.

@sirthought
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Okay thank you.

@Slighternine
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.taxi here

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JamminR commented Sep 13, 2019 via email

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Interesting to hear that. If I just go to external sources and search for shows, it says "plugin not responding." I can't search for a specific title without the same result. I wonder what is happening on my end?

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jbl0ggs commented Sep 22, 2019

I know this is for FMovies, but I thought I would ask here just in case...

I just wanted to report that the g2g.fm plex plugin has stopped working for me. Movies only appear under the “Latest Video” category. When clicking on the video, the message I get is Video not found.

Is there any resolution to this issue?

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Oldpapa commented Sep 22, 2019 via email

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moneycarlo commented Sep 29, 2019

Anyone else having issues with not getting any results from external sources? Lately it seems I'm getting more and more cases where when I click on external sources it comes back with no videos. Seems like I run into this more than selections with video. Even when trying the download sources option and also returns no videos

@sirthought
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I thought we were shut down last week, but last night I was able to get things working again.

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JamminR commented Sep 30, 2019 via email

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Anyone still up and running? I haven't gotten anything to work for a while. I guess it's dead???

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@sirthought It's been up and down with me. I don't think it's dead, just dying a little every day.

@zablon123
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I gave up, even external links aren't working any longer.

I've moved on to casting ffmovies, Cyberflix app, and Kodi (my god, I can't believe people like this thing - it is even less reliable than the plex plugin).

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I have found not allot works for me anymore. I have started using sonarr and radarr for downloads as they have the same functionality as fmovies ie you can search, download whole series, autopilot etc. Would love to know how @coder-alpha is, just to say thanks for all the work he did. If anyone wants any info on setting up sonarr and radarr just ping me.

@gary7653
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f movie seems to be dead but a few other apps still working fine in plex rar

@Jtingle1818
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I have been trying it every week or so but nothing ever works. So, do the black helicopters come if I use sonarr and/or radarr?

@grdon999
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as much as they would using fmovies. It uses torrents, so I would always use a VPN

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JamminR commented Dec 11, 2019 via email

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FMP would curl or wget from the source. ISP (certainly in the UK) have to monitor traffic to sources provided to them and report so just as likely. Saying that I make sure ALL my traffic goes via a VPN so that covers it. I hope @coder-alpha is fine. I would happily help with a standalone version.

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Hmmm. Time for a VPN! Thanks for the info.

@moneycarlo
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Any other suggestions for streaming plex apps? I'm just down to Ccloud now which is usually pretty flaky but is still actively worked on so at least some channels are always working

@zablon123
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I doubt much gets updated any more with plex dropping plugins. I imagine there aren't many of us still using the old versions.

@gary7653
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Some life appeared again on 12/23/19

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I've had a little luck by going into settings/tools/set external listing/ and choosing the tv api instead of the movies one. Also need to clear cache often. It produces a few download links and more external streaming links. Sometimes under External Listing the result shows 0gb or Not Available, but try it anyway.

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JamminR commented Jan 17, 2020

Well, I knew this would eventually happen. I didn't expect it to be a 3rd party API change that caused it. (Expected it to be a client update, like the 1.(15?) update required by Plex for Roku)
https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-information-regarding-tv-artwork-in-plex/527994
Anyone running a version of Plex that can still run plug-ins will not be able to get TV posters/icons after Jan 31, 2020.
I happen to be one of those people, as I still barely used FMP+.
@coder-alpha - we miss you. I hope you are well.
We all would love for a new solution. I'm totally down for running a python instance just for a FMP web front-end, CherryPy like, much like Tautulli.

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Mine plex rarflix stopped working today 1/27/20. how about anyone else?

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JamminR commented Jan 28, 2020

Interesting observation - I'm running server 1.18.5 - all 'use' of plugins through Plex web are limited to 'settings' (gear icon) only, under settings - manage - plugins = Expected.
BUT, on older clients, such as two android devices I've NOT updated to versions that removed "plug-ins" from the left side menu, I can still use the plug-in normally.
I have an old Ipad with same.
Thought I'd share.
Functionality is going away, and the channel is now sporadic due to web backend changes @coder-alpha hasn't updated in FMP, but, there is still life in this code.

@gary7653
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Got it working again be deleting and reinstalling it all...think i had computer problem

@moneycarlo
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ya mine is still working with older version of server 1.14 something. Rarflix on Roku works the exact same as does my samsung tv native app. So the plug-ins functionality is still alive with the older versions, just the plug ins themselves need updating. Just bummed that fmovies isn't retrieving any sources for any of the movies i try..
acronai, fmovies, primewire were always my go to's and now none are working since dev work has died off :(

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I really miss this app. anybody found a decent alternative?

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