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P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for Kodi - enen92 - 2014-08-11 Dear XBMC/Kodi community, I'm proud to present you the plugin I've been working on for the past 7 months. I am now happy with the way it works and the multiple platforms it supports, so this version might be considered the first stable version. This plugin is not a usual plugin, it is complex due to the intrinsic difficulty of making external closed source tools to work within xbmc/kodi. So, despite we tried to make the installation and configuration really easy and straightforward, aditional configurations might be needed from your side. Please read this post and any auxialliary material carefully! Hope you like and enjoy it! P2P-Streams Video addon for XBMC/Kodi About the addon p2p-streams is an XBMC addon for watching peer-to-peer streams in XBMC without the need for external players. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes. The addon currently supports SopCast and AceStream and several platforms:
Installation & configuration Addon installation Please install the repository in XBMC (System → settings → addons → install from zip file) Repository Download After, get the addon from the installed repository: System → settings → addons → get addons → p2p-streams repository → p2p-streams → install Platform specific configuration instructions: Although we try to make the configuration as simple as possible it is platform dependent. Please check the specific detailed instructions for your platform/operating system. About the technologies (and addon integration) SopCast SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. SoP is the abbreviation for Streaming over P2P. Sopcast is a Streaming Direct Broadcasting System based on P2P. The core is the communication protocol produced by Sopcast Team, which is named sop://, or SoP technology. More info at: Sopcast.org The addon can accept "sop://" url's or simple id's (e.g.:"sop://broker.sopcast.org:3912/1234") as following: Quote:plugin://plugin.video.p2p-streams/?url=sop://124.232.150.188:3912/11265&mode=2&name=title+sopcast Quote:plugin://plugin.video.p2p-streams/?url=1234&mode=2&name=title+sopcast AceStream Acestream (formerly known as TorrentStream) is a recent peer-to-peer technology based on the bittorrent protocol which will take you to a new high-quality level of multimedia space on the Internet. It's used for VOD and Live content. More info at: Acestream.org The addon can accept general `acestream://` based url, `.torrent urls, local .torrent files, .acelive urls or just acestream hashes. Eg: Quote:plugin://plugin.video.p2p-streams/?url=_some_hash&mode=1&name=acestream+title Quote:plugin://plugin.video.p2p-streams/?url=acestream://_some_hash&mode=1&name=acestream+title Quote:plugin://plugin.video.p2p-streams/?url=http://something.torrent&mode=1&name=acestream+title Quote:plugin://plugin.video.p2p-streams/?url=http://something.acelive&mode=1&name=acestream+title Addon aditional functionalities The addon provides aditional functionalities you can use to create your own experience:
FAQ Are the devs related to acestream.org or sopcast.org? No, we are not affiliated with any of them. We do this addon in our free time. Hence, we do not provide support for possible errors or issues in both technologies. Why does the addon come with just one list and no parsers? There are plenty of sop and ace links out there... The plugin goal is to extend xbmc functionality and to make peer-to-peer streams playable in XBMC. Website parsers are difficult to maintain and can provide non-legal content. So, for obvious reasons we do not provide any support nor include any of them in the core addon. Also we want to keep updates at a minimum level. Am I allowed to discuss and share websites containg sopcast and acestream links? If the content is legal yes. If not, please don't. You're messages will be either deleted or ignored if that's the case. Is it available for iOS or atv2? I get a “not available for your os message” Sopcast or Acestream are closed source applications that are not available for ios and atv (and might never be). You might want to consider this option. Why do I need to run xbmc as administrator in Windows when doing the initial configuration? Sopcast in windows is complete gui package. It doesn't have any CLI executable or any possible way of integration. For the addon to play sopcast links a windows service is created (using the srvany microsoft tool) that makes sopcast.exe to run headless in your system. To create and modify the service permissions you need administration previledges. If the executables the addon uses are available from the official sites of both technologies why do you host and ship those .exe or .apk's from your repo? To simplify the configuration, make it easier for the average user and to have better control of the files the addon needs. You're free to get those executables from the official channels and also compare the checksums with the ones downloaded from the addon (to confirm they are exactly the same). Also, you can check the addon code on github to understand what the addon is doing. Sopcast in OSX only lasts 3 seconds... Unfortunately since xbmc gotham beta 3 this behaviour started to happen. Frodo and gotham versions till beta 3 seem to handle the streams fine. Sometimes I get the message “Channel initialization failed” in Sopcast. Why? Either the sopcast executable failed to login, the channel is offline or has been removed by SopCast because of proprietary content. Either the reason, there's nothing we can do to avoid this. I'm kicked out of AceStreams after 'x' time... There are several aditional configurations you might have to do to improve acestreams behaviour and... most of them fall out of the bounds of this addon. Try to limit the cache in XBMC by importing one of the recommended advancedsettings.xml (advanced tools menu). Port forward port 8621 and change the acestream-engine settings. This site has some usefull information:acestream buffer guide. If these don't improve the behaviour your ISP is probably throttling your traffic. Again, we are not affiliated with acestream.org and we can't do anything about it. Some acestreams play fine in windows but not on Android, Raspberry Pi and Linux (Torrent unavailable). The AcestreamEngine for windows is several versions above the others and seems to receive much more support and development by acestream developers. Streams created in the windows 2.2 version of acestream engine (and above) are not supported in older versions (which are used in all the other platforms). For linux (x86_64 only) you can check the Acestream-Engine Alpha 3.0 Can I run the engine on a different computer? Yes. Read this. Can I stream regular torrents with this plugin? The Acestream-Engine provided by acestream.org can stream normal .torrent files. Since this addon is nothing more than the implementation of its public API...it can play them in XBMC as well. However in our opinion there are better alternatives to do this. Check XBMCTorrent or Pulsar. Authors enen92 and fightnight Credits This addon would not be possible without the help and first work of some developers:
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Project page: https://github.com/enen92/P2P-Streams-XBMC Current version: 1.1.1 Changelog: Quote:===== Stable Versions ======== RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - luke71933 - 2014-08-13 Hi, Im new to xbmc, Can anyone link me to a guide on setting up acestream and sopcast and how I can get HD Channels which are crisp clear, I already have p2p streams installed but have no channels there. Acestream on sportsdevil is buffering every 20 secs, any fix on that? Thanks RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - uns1988 - 2014-08-16 Wonderful Addon, Thank you developers. I just have one question - is there any way of changing acestream settings like max connects per stream, download/upload speed limits on an XBMC Gotham running on Ubuntu 14.04? Thanks. RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - shuggy81 - 2014-08-16 Hi Guys, Needing some help. I have installed XBMC for Android. I have installed Acestream & Sopcast APK I have the Repo installed. I go to video > addons > p2p-streams but from there when I select Addon website parsers I am stuck.When I click add website parser plug in it doesnt find anything to install locally. Am i missing something there that I am suppose to download ? RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - enen92 - 2014-08-16 uns1988: Yap it is written on the wiki. Just run "acestreamengine --client-gtk" and an indicator applet will appear. This applet has a settings menu in which you can change the main engine settings. If you prefer to change them through the command line, it is also possible, just browse the .pickle files located in $HOME/.ACEStream and look for the setting you want to change. Unfortunatly it's not possible (yet) to change them from the addon menus. (2014-08-16, 17:23)shuggy81 Wrote: Hi Guys, Read the first post, no suppport for any external plugins, they are not part of the core addon nor hosted/maintained by us. There is an option in the parsers menu to add them, if you don't see all of your folders/drives just edit the sources.xml in your userdata. RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - Val_0 - 2014-08-16 I am not sure if this is the right thread but I've noticed if I stream anything using AceStream from XBMC I do NOT upload anything. If I run the exactly same stream from the AcePlayer/browser I do upload. I have all the right ports open on the WAN firewall, PC f/w is disabled. Any ideas? RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - enen92 - 2014-08-17 v1.0.1 (17/8/2014) -Fixed handshake for acestreamengine api versions > 2.x -Added new android acestreamengine (addon configuration) If you run the addon in android please run the configuration again (enable "download modules on boot" in the addon settings and reenter the addon). The new acestreamengine (AceStream-2.2.5-armv7.apk) will be downloaded to sdcard/download or to a location you specify. Install this version, check the addon is on version 1.0.1 and have fun. Don't forget the engine needs to be running before entering xbmc/selecting any acestream. RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - tj88 - 2014-08-18 thanks enen92 for the hard work! I'm totaly new to p2p. The last thing I used with p2p was kazaa about 10 years ago... but with the (for me) new things it has to offer, it looks wonderfull! Can you please help me a bit with setting it up? I did re-install the p2p-streams add-on, not to be bothered by my previous mistakes. Now I want to set the platform specific cofiguration settings... What I understood is that xbmcbuntu (what I am running) is based on ubuntu 14.04 os. What should I configure then? Whitch file should I use? RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - enen92 - 2014-08-18 I need to do everything again for linux as they released a new version 4 days ago. RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - haakie - 2014-08-20 Hi Enen, thanks for the great addon.....but since a few days I have a problem. I am on latest stable Gotham (openelec) on raspberry. Sopcast is running fine but acestreams are not working anymore? Also call your addon from sportsdevil with acestreams do not work. I deleted everything and reinstall but it didn't help. Acestream is counting down from 30 sec and it tried to start a stream.......but then it says torrent not available or invalid? This is happening with all the acestreams I try. Same streams ARE working on laptop with xbmc. Any help or explaining will be appreciated! RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - enen92 - 2014-08-20 (2014-08-20, 15:59)haakie Wrote: Hi Enen, A new version of acestreamengine was released for android (2.2.5) and since then all acestreams started to be broadcasted with recent versions of the acestreamengine. Unfortunatly for the raspberry pi I was using an old version of the engine (when acestreamengine was released it was just a "python zip")...then it turned a compiled program. So the pi is basically running an "open-source" acestreamengine. Since everything is encrypted and now the acestreamengine is closedsource/compiled there's nothing I can do to solve it. Unless they compile a version for linux arm it will never work again. So I'm affraid in the next update I will drop support for builtin playback of acestreams on the following platforms (which are using the old/tweaked engine): -Linux armv6 (raspberry pi) -Linux armv7 -Mac OSX (this one might be worked out later but for now it will be removed). You can only play acestreams on the pi now if you stream to it from a pc running windows or linux (which have official acestream releases). We all know this day would come so, it was good while it worked. Hope in the future they support more platforms RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - haakie - 2014-08-20 Thanks for your answer. Too bad it is not working anymore. And the other solution is set my laptop as server and change settings in addon on the pi? As described in here? Can I run the engine on a different computer? Yes.....https://github.com/enen92/P2P-Streams-XBMC/wiki/Using-an-acestream-engine-running-on-a-different-location RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - neno1978 - 2014-08-21 (2014-08-20, 20:17)enen92 Wrote:(2014-08-20, 15:59)haakie Wrote: Hi Enen, well, but now, i am watching súper tenis hd in mac osx. Does this want to say that some of them are seen and others not? Does it want to say that from the next update already it should not work? If it is like that; if I remain in this version, without updating, will this continue working? Thanks RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - enen92 - 2014-08-21 That's good news A few days ago none of them would play on the pi but they are all working now, maybe the streamers changed the way they broadcast. If it keeps like this I will just leave things as they are and just update the engines for linux + openelec. RE: P2P-Streams - SopCast and AceStream for XBMC/Kodi - haakie - 2014-08-21 (2014-08-21, 19:40)enen92 Wrote: That's good news A few days ago none of them would play on the pi but they are all working now, maybe the streamers changed the way they broadcast. If it keeps like this I will just leave things as they are and just update the engines for linux + openelec. I hope so......miss this Great add-on on my pi!!! |