[REQUEST] NBC Olympics

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andydufresne Offline
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NBC will be streaming all sports and all events live from the London Olympics for folks in the US. Actually I think the BBC is doing the same thing for the UK.

An add-in to enable this within XBMC would be really appreciated. I think NBC is using YouTube technology. They are using it now for the Olympic trials.
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If anyone makes any headway on this, or finds hints for someone who is, feel free to update the XBMC Wiki page 2012 Olympics. Just think of it as sort of a scratch pad for info.

You can make easy links to the XBMC wiki using double brackets around words: [[debug log]] = debug log, [[Add-on:YouTube]] = Add-on:YouTube, [[Adding videos to the library]] = Adding videos to the library, [[userdata]] = userdata, etc
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-26 03:38 by Ned Scott.)
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FYI, here is the link to the NBC Olympics "Live Extra" page. I watched the swimming finals online tonight and looks like they will be streaming a number of events over the next week or so.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/index.html
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+1 on this request!

The FAQs on the NBC "Live Extra" page are somewhat vague, but it looks like they are requiring a login and/or other sort of authorization to make sure you are a customer of a "correct" cable operator and also with the "correct" tier of service from that provider. Sort of like what ESPN3 does?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/help/index.html
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+1 and bump Smile
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+1 and bump Smile
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I monitored the ios app to get the HLS urls. They are using youtube for all video streaming of ads and live streams.

I discovered several feeds we could use for an app. I am not sure how to authorize and use the HLS streams. I don't know how the header value is generated.

I did monitor the transactions and then played the Apple HLS url in XBMC without a problem. Someone would need an authorized way of getting that url.

I tried to detail more here. maybe someone else can figure a way to play the youtube ids with proper authorization.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1155568
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