Cannot play (dutch public) streams anymore
#1
Dear all,

I'm pretty new here, but have been using XBMC for about half a year now. I'm using XBMC on a dedicated (old) Mac mini and did not experience any problems in streaming some (Dutch) internet channels before a three weeks ago.
At the moment, when I start a stream, I get the following famous error message: "Playback Failed. One or more items failed to play. Check the log file for details." If I do so, I got this:

<code>
21:19:29 T:2956513280 ERROR: Open - error probing input format, http://livestreams.omroep.nl/npo/cultura24-sb
21:19:29 T:2956513280 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
21:19:29 T:2897357352 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 2, path [http://livestreams.omroep.nl/npo/cultura24-sb]
</code>

I did several searches on Google and xbmc fora but couldn't find the answer. Furthermore, I did a (re)install on another computer, which results in the same problems.

I think that something has to do with geoloc-restrictions. There are two dutch-public-channels which do work (news). Probably these channels are not restricted.
The strange thing, however, is that when I start these streams from a web-browser, the streams do work. That indicates that the IP address isn't blocked by the TV-channel-provider. Or am I mistaken?

I verified the region settings in XBMC, which was set OK.

What could be the problem, and how could I fix it? It has been working before, and suddenly it broke.

Thank you very much in advance!

Kees.
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#2
Npo.nl changed it. Which means these static links will not play any more. It could be that some of those still will work. But not for long I presume.

Use the XOT-Uzg.v3 addon and got to "NPO.nl". Not sure though of some of these got geoloc-restrictions.
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#3
Thanx for the reply. I did have xot but didn't install it on the clean installation I talked about.
I will look into it. I'll come back later
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#4
Small update. I tried the solution of tikkiew and it worked.

Thanks for your help.
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