A legal alternate to Icefilms?

BlueCop Wrote:Hulu and Hulu+ have a good amount of content. I like Hulu+ because it expands the tv and movies library a good bit and you get 720p. Even though plus tv shows has shrunk a bit lately. You can access this in XBMC with the plugin. It is a cat and mouse game of them trying to shut us out though.

Amazon also has a ton of content. A subset of the media is free with an Amazon Prime subscription. The prime library is quite large though. You can purchase/rent things outside the prime library on the website. You can then access them in the My Library item in the amazon plugin. They might be implementing a new Flash Access DRM on some videos though that will make it impossible to decode the video with XBMC though.

Free Cable is also a plugin option for Television shows. It accesses several united states based station sites. CBS shows are also available here. It is noticably missing from Hulu. CBS does have an agreement for hulu distribution in japan but not the United States yet. The advantage of the station sites over hulu is that they sometimes stream in 720p for free. NBC shows is an example. Now that 30 rock is not available in 720p on Hulu because it was dropped as a plus show. It is available on the NBC website in 720p though.

I would love to have HBO GO and EPIX HD movie streaming. They require a cable subscription currently. I got a free 2 week trial for epix and it has a decent movie library for streaming in 720p. it is around 3000 movies. They have around 64,000 in their database though and cycle new ones in every month or so. I wrote a plugin for it when I had the free trial. It need better cable log-in support though. It supports the Queue system on the site. You can also add/remove from the plugin.


remops: Supernatural is available in the Hulu plugin and the Free Cable plugin which uses the cw website. If you have hulu plus then you can watch it in 720p.

Bluecop this is what I wanted in starting this thread. Can you tell us where the Hulu addon zip is located and is it working on xbox? I forgot about the free cable it is a decent plugin and like you said CW is there. There is a Amazon plugin?

Thanks again!

Bluecop I found your thread on the Hulu. I'll give it try

Thanks agian

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=45889

The Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith - TV Land in Free Cable

The Big Bang Theory - CBS in Free Cable.

Supernatural - Hulu and The Cw in Free Cable.

Fringe - Hulu

Warehouse 13 - Hulu and Syfy in Free Cable


You just have to look and try things.

Is netflix CANADA any good?

I heard its terrible.

[quote=DDDamian]I think you'll find even TV lives on revenues. No advertising in the streaming video from networks, which is why you don't get all they have to offer.


Not strictly true. In the Uk, certainly ITV player and 4OD have advertisements before your show streams if you use the official methods of viewing them. (Not sure about 5 on Demand cos there's nothing on it I would ever watch) The plugins for XBMC bypass that and effectively deprive the channel of advertising views and therefore revenue.

it's not going to be legal unless it's directly from the station's site or via hulu/netflix.

with that said, free cable plugin works great for a free legal, tv like environment.

i just miss a lot of the shows i watched that are not available on free cable.

mikeplow1961 Wrote:[quote=DDDamian]

Not strictly true. In the Uk, certainly ITV player and 4OD have advertisements before your show streams if you use the official methods of viewing them. (Not sure about 5 on Demand cos there's nothing on it I would ever watch) The plugins for XBMC bypass that and effectively deprive the channel of advertising views and therefore revenue.

Actually the ad revenue is based upon how many people view the content (programme) itself, not the advertisements. So watching in this method does not affect ad-revenue... currently. Hope this helps. The advertisers of course will prefer you to view their commercials and of course use lots of little ways for you to clikc-and-play to take you to their sites. The viewing figures of said advert, coupled with the viewing figures of the content AND how man click-and-play are waht determines the price of advertising slots on demand.

Hope I helped explain a little further.

Another plus to the Free Cable and Hulu addons is they allow you to watch the programs commercial free by blocking the advertisements from being loaded in xbmc. I believe you can set Hulu to show the advertisements but I don't know why you would want to do that.

Quote:Originally Posted by DDDamian

Not strictly true. In the Uk, certainly ITV player and 4OD have advertisements before your show streams if you use the official methods of viewing them. (Not sure about 5 on Demand cos there's nothing on it I would ever watch) The plugins for XBMC bypass that and effectively deprive the channel of advertising views and therefore revenue.

Think I'm getting misquoted lol - that wasn't me. That may be a copyright infringement

I had quite forgotten the UK structure (I did live there for a few years and paid the damn TV tax), and not sure how that affects streaming there, but I guess my point was more that: if it comes from either a paid service (e.g. Netflix) or is streamed from a network that owns the rights to distribute and pay for it as they see fit, it doesn't classify as piracy and should be freely discussable here.

Typically though that applies to streams, not storable content. Icefilms was an example of pirating, as are sites like the pirate bay for most content.

I'm glad to see many suggestions for legal streamed content popped up here.

StinDaWg Wrote:Another plus to the Free Cable and Hulu addons is they allow you to watch the programs commercial free by blocking the advertisements from being loaded in xbmc. I believe you can set Hulu to show the advertisements but I don't know why you would want to do that.

I understand that nobody wants to watch the ads... but it really is best to do so when possible. Hulu makes money from displaying the ads. If everyone running Hulu through XBMC is ignoring the ads, then Hulu is going to notice that and make more of a concerted effort to block Hulu from XBMC access, because nobody is seeing the ads. The more we make use of the ads, the less likely it will be that Hulu will try and block access to XBMC users. That's the idea at least.