[Request] Streaming Provider

ARTOP MEDIA's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCylTnUTQh3B9X-f02Z_qhKg

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 Brownie:

VIU Singapore and VIU Indonesia + Malaysia

For now, I will add those countries until we found a better solution. 

Has it already been reported that some titles with WeTV, iQiyi and VIU as the named services dont show on the pages?

 Loretti:

@Brownie, Yeah VIU is very weird.

@Safe for Weebs So I checked your sugestion and removing country indicator it results in 'VIU - 404 Error' page.

Also as I said before about the different looking Viu services, I did checked the playlist for the same series on them and the links look completly different.

For example the series "Dancing Angel"

VIU Indonesia and Malaysia playlist are the same with only difference being country id.

https://www.viu.com/ott/id/en/all/playlist-dancing_angel-playlist-25589677
https://www.viu.com/ott/my/en/all/playlist-dancing_angel-playlist-25589677

(and as I said without the id it gets an error even with the same looking service)

But for country with diffrent looking VIU, like Thailand, the page for the same series looks like this:

https://www.viu.com/ott/th/en-us/vod/285598/Dancing-Angel

That being the case, the only way of linking to Viu with the current system as it is would be to consider each local version of Viu as a separate service (as is being done). Which might be workable for now if only the countries MDL users request are added, rather than all 31 – though, technically, all of them are eligible so should be included.

There are two general ways I can think of getting around this:

1. To count the 31 local versions of Viu as a category, like YouTube channels and Vimeo people.
2. To allow more than one link to the same service, if, as well as the URL being different, there are tags to indicate combinations of  region and subtitle availability which are different between the links.

1 might be easier and quicker to implement, but I'm starting to wonder if 2 might be needed anyway for links to primevideo.com and play.google.com, which, though I'm not sure as I haven't used either for watching myself, might not always use the same URL for the same title in every region, like Netflix does.

For platforms such as VIU or Amazon Prime, I think I have a solution in mind. 

 Estelll:

+1 by me for that option, it would also be useful if plan to group YouTube channels

It is possible and something we may going to implement but we would need to be careful when approving the channels.

I have some streaming sites which I use to watch my shows but are not available as options on MDL. 

Paravi: https://www.paravi.jp/

UNEXT: https://video.unext.jp/

 Hessa:

中剧独播 - الدراما الصينية بالعربية  : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuot30c1epMs0yORpz1_PIg

中剧独播 - Spain : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEdE1fSOjzotLkxytSvqVw

中剧独播 - Portugal : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwOdjunNml7ez4c5omIYY2Q

That's the reason we were talking above of a way to group channels/providers, these are all CN DRAMA's Channels (in other languages, etc.). The ideal would be to be have one here, and when we choose e.g. CN DRAMA, an additional drop down menu appearing to choose which sub-channel to add link into, any one of:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrR1ynvdUJ_zSXWQCE5TK8A
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXArvcv8GzCqTmXRTu5pPFw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAqDX_XjLlvhjY0eDqHpVQw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuot30c1epMs0yORpz1_PIg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwOdjunNml7ez4c5omIYY2Q
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEdE1fSOjzotLkxytSvqVw