I would like to preface this post with the following. I am using datho vpn and signed up for unlimited bandwidth access.
With current release I was able to watch all NBA games live last night in 720p. I live in the US but have an nba international league pass account and as far as I can tell worked flawlessly. This is why you would need a vpn, so the nba league pass add-on would work for US residents. Datho vpn does provide a free vpn service, but with limited bandwidth. So streaming hd content with the free vpn service is not doable.
With everything setup, I just launched the add-on and I was able to watch live nba games in 720p. If you don't use a vpn, I recommend starting!
Also, I would like to note the streaming looks infinitely better through xbmc, than if I logged in with my laptop and hooked it up to my tv using hdmi. My laptop usually has this weird pixelated look
Which version of the add-on are you using Sopesi? I found 0.6.7 - I had 0.1.5 before I think and it didn't work. 0.6.7 plays back archived games fine... I will have to test live games tonight. If that works, all 4 of the big NA sports leagues will be working via XBMC for me, and there'll be no need for me to go back and forth via browsers from the PC to the TV, it can all be done via the click of the remote using XBMC!
EDIT: It's game time now, and the Magic - Wizards game in streaming well in glorious HD! This is great... thanks to all the developers for all the sports leagues apps!!!
(2014-11-14, 18:38)sopesi Wrote: [ -> ]I would like to preface this post with the following. I am using datho vpn and signed up for unlimited bandwidth access.
With current release I was able to watch all NBA games live last night in 720p. I live in the US but have an nba international league pass account and as far as I can tell worked flawlessly. This is why you would need a vpn, so the nba league pass add-on would work for US residents. Datho vpn does provide a free vpn service, but with limited bandwidth. So streaming hd content with the free vpn service is not doable.
With everything setup, I just launched the add-on and I was able to watch live nba games in 720p. If you don't use a vpn, I recommend starting!
Also, I would like to note the streaming looks infinitely better through xbmc, than if I logged in with my laptop and hooked it up to my tv using hdmi. My laptop usually has this weird pixelated look
How was the delay like? Did you have any type of time delay?
I can confirm this also works with Adfreetime as well.
So, I've been using this plugin lately and found out that it still works! Thanks Petros for the latest changes
Someone on github reported that only 720p was playing despite what was set in the settings, so I found the repo in the "dust" of my pc and fixed that, here's the new version:
https://bitbucket.org/maxgalbu/plugin.vi...a.v0_7.zip
maxgalbu,sorry,file is corrupt,xbmc get error when install,please check out!Thanks.
Yes you're right, file reuploaded. Thanks
I think it is still corrupted - it says that it is not in the expected format (have tried downloading a couple of times)
Thanks for the hard work.
Cheers
Are you using xbmc 14? I recently installed it with xbmc 13 and had no problems
Yesterday I found out something interesting. In Windows, it works (I am using Kodi version 14 in Windows, but working in 13.2 as well).
In Android / OpenELEC, it does not (whether 13 or 14 it does not matter), so I have to use 0.6.7 instead.
Not sure why it does this.
I know I'm a little late to the party, I wanted to give a small update on my status.
I recently purchased an Amazon Fire TV with the promise of an "NBA Game Time" app that I can watch live games with. Apparently this doesn't apply to outside the US (I don't understand why since my phone and the Amazon Fire TV both run android and presumably the same app). Of course I side-loaded KODI and I am happy to report that the NBA app posted by maxgalbu works wonderfully!
0.7 is currently giving me Unable to play errors, on Win7 x64
Code:
08:59:05 T:6820 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
08:59:05 T:6820 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
08:59:06 T:6820 NOTICE: deleting video url cache
08:59:06 T:1088 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
08:59:06 T:7204 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
08:59:06 T:7204 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening:
08:59:07 T:8060 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
08:59:07 T:2216 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
08:59:07 T:2216 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
08:59:07 T:2216 ERROR: perror:
08:59:07 T:2216 ERROR: Error on dvdnav_open
08:59:07 T:2216 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening []
08:59:07 T:2216 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
08:59:07 T:8060 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.nba/?url=0021400577%2Farchive%2F1&mode=playgame&name=Home+feed]
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
08:59:07 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
08:59:10 T:7840 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
08:59:19 T:6096 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
08:59:19 T:6096 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
08:59:19 T:6096 NOTICE: deleting video url cache
08:59:19 T:6000 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
08:59:20 T:4008 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
08:59:20 T:4008 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening:
08:59:21 T:8060 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
08:59:21 T:5780 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
08:59:21 T:5780 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
08:59:21 T:5780 ERROR: perror:
08:59:21 T:5780 ERROR: Error on dvdnav_open
08:59:21 T:5780 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening []
08:59:21 T:5780 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
08:59:21 T:8060 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.nba/?url=0021400577%2Farchive%2F1&mode=playgame&name=Home+feed]
08:59:21 T:7208 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
08:59:21 T:8060 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
Trying to locate 0.6.7 to test as others seem to have had success with that version.
EDIT: 0.6.5 gives the same issue for me.
EDIT2: Both version can play the apparently free content, some clips etc
My account is a free trial currently, but thought this should work?
Hi maxgalbu,
Is there a way to force a lower bitrate on live games? Im from Australia and I keep getting buffering issues with Live games.
Thanks
Hi,
I get a crash with nba league pass, kodi and common plugin cache. get
Here the log :
http://pastebin.com/h47tb4aV
Hope you can figure what's going on
Bibi
I only watch archived games with this (0.7) on windows, but never have any problems with streaming 720p.
Really fantastic!
Thank you very very much to all who are involved to make this addon happen!!!