RELEASE: BBC Sport Streams (Olympics)
#1
In the UK, the BBC has 24 extra channels for watching the Olympics. Sadly, this is only available on sky and Freeview gets three Sad
To solve this, I've put this together to get all the live vids from the BBC sport website
This is a very quickly hacked together effort at getting all the BBC Sport Live Streams onto XBMC for the Olympics Smile

I'd love people to take this and improve it any way they care to but it's good enough for me now. I know there are a couple of other ways of doing this but I could find none with thumbnails and a listing of what's actually on so I made this.

This is totally based on the iplayer plugin: http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-iplayer/
I didn't really change much, it's ugly as heck and only works half the time. It was a rush job though!
Only tested on linux but we'll see. I'm not going to improve or maintain this as the streams might disappear at the end of the games in two weeks.

Issues: When a stream loads, I sometimes have to press play or else it just stays buffering at 50%


Github Link
Zip File


Today was my first attempt anything like this so don't get mad if it doesn't work how you'd like it to.


Screenshot:

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#2
I'm not mad ... but it just throws a script error!

iPlayer plugin works 100%
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#3
Wink 
Thank you!

I just installed this on my RaspberryPi, and it worked (almost) first time!

First live stream I attempted to use failed twice. Then I tried another couple of streams -- they worked fine first time and the original worked too!

No idea what went wrong -- there wasn't anything obvious (to me) in the logs, but I don't know much about the iplayer streaming protocol.

Thanks again, this has made my day!
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#4
Is this UK only?
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#5
Yes, unless there's a special case for Olympic coverage, it will be. The BBC service itself will IP check any connections and refuse service to any non-UK IPs.
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#6
Drats! NBC in the states has got a lockdown on the Olympic coverage. I've tried using proxies to get through to some BBC feeds, and the IOC's youtube channel without luck. What a drag...
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#7
(2012-07-31, 15:25)thrak76 Wrote: Drats! NBC in the states has got a lockdown on the Olympic coverage. I've tried using proxies to get through to some BBC feeds, and the IOC's youtube channel without luck. What a drag...

you can use unblockus and it will work fine through a browser - not through xbmc
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#8
(2012-07-31, 16:23)cablegoon Wrote:
(2012-07-31, 15:25)thrak76 Wrote: Drats! NBC in the states has got a lockdown on the Olympic coverage. I've tried using proxies to get through to some BBC feeds, and the IOC's youtube channel without luck. What a drag...

you can use unblockus and it will work fine through a browser - not through xbmc

I'm not willing to pay for a VPN just for the Olympics coverage. There's a 1-week trial though, so I'll probably take advantage of that. Thanks for the heads up!
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#9
I have an addon here http://code.google.com/p/bbcsports-addon...ip&can=2&q= that I released over the weekend that works through HTTP and SOCKS proxies.

D
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#10
(2012-07-31, 18:17)dlake02 Wrote: I have an addon here http://code.google.com/p/bbcsports-addon...ip&can=2&q= that I released over the weekend that works through HTTP and SOCKS proxies.

D

I installed this and signed up for unblock but am not sure how to fill out the proxy settings in the plugin

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#11
Proxy settings are configured in the "Add-on Settings" - right-click on the "BBC Sports" title.

You'll need to setup your proxy and a default download location.
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#12
(2012-08-01, 07:21)dlake02 Wrote: Proxy settings are configured in the "Add-on Settings" - right-click on the "BBC Sports" title.

You'll need to setup your proxy and a default download location.

Yeah im there but dont know where to get that info from unblock.us

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#13
Few changes to the script:

1) Now using httplib2
2) Rather than display all 24 channels with no info, I now just display those that have content plus details of that content (and an icon for the sport....)

http://code.google.com/p/bbcsports-addon...ip&can=2&q=

boognish43 - sorry can't help there. I have my own VPS with a SOCKS 5 and HTTP proxy in the UK for when I'm out-and-about.
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#14
Hi dlake02 - Nice work

Hi everyone else... dlake02's plugin now implements listings and only shows the channels actually showing anything. The two things that drove me to create this plugin in the first place.

Since I never intended to do ANY support of this plugin and it is a bit buggy at times (It really was a rush job), I'd recommend you all use his plugin from now on.

Dom
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#15
I am only getting streaming for about 2 seconds before it resets back to the channel list - frustrating as the video quality looks pretty good. I'm, as dlake02 describes it, 'out and about', so have the option of either a squid proxy or VPN connection - but no combination of this seems to work. It always starts the flv download, I get about 2 seconds of streaming, and then it stops Sad

Linked is a pastebin output from xbmc.log
http://pastebin.com/DgwWGnW6

Any help appreciated. (I thought I'd sent this yesterday - but it hasn't shown up, apologies if it is a duplicate)
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