[learningit]

I thought the new requests looked strange, some one cleaned up their programming in the last couple hours, so yet another new version.
This website is under change, you can expect that the addon will have problems during this time.
Some episodes are now locked and require cable id sign-on. If you get an WNBC addon error that means that episode is locked.
I believe we can expect more episodes to be locked in the future.

Version 1.0.11 is available in my git:
https://github.com/learningit/plugin.video.wnbc

or in my test repo:
https://github.com/learningit/repository...odi_addons

I will not make pull request for the kodi.org repo until the website is stable again.

[dairyair]

I just installed 1.0.11 and all the files work again.
Thanks so much. (Now my wife has returned my phone which she was using to watch "Days of our lives" from the NBC App :-)

This app has enabled us to cut our cable out completely.
How might I donate something to you for providing it?

[Eye in the sky]

Still not working for me.

debug log:

http://pastebin.com/U7tEma1B

[learningit]

Still not working for me.

debug log:

http://pastebin.com/U7tEma1B

I'm not 100% sure what's going on in the log but it looks either the DNS service or proxy isn't supporting https fully or there seems to be an error trying to establish the ssl connection. Let's give this a couple of days to settle down then we can have a look at what is and what is not working, there are still website changes being made.

[Eye in the sky]

I contacted my smart dns provider to let them know that NBC stopped working.
They made some modifications and now the WNBC add-on is working again.

Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication.

[dairyair]

So, just to summarize what happened, NBC actually changed the website or at least the URL path/syntax somehow, and after that @learningit changed his code to support the new path. At that point the addon started working for me.
However, @Eye in the Sky had a DNS problem (perhaps something outdated that wasn't updating) that wasn't recognizing the WNBC domain any longer.

Once the DNS issue was resolved, the latest version 1.0.11 WNBC addon started working again for @Eye in the Sky.

So now we know that 1.0.11 is correct and final.
Whew. What a pain in the ass that was.
@learningit, where can I donate a few bucks to you? My wife very much appreciates this addon.

[learningit]

The current version is actually 1.0.12 which is available in the kodi.org repo or for download at:
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/gotham/plu...1.0.12.zip

This version has a small fix for The Tonight Show. An error notification sometimes appears when playing a Tonight Show episode, but none the less, the episode will play. A user has also reported problems with Late Night with Seth Meyers, but it works ok for me.

I don't take donations,clicking on the "Thank User" button is more than enough. It's always nice to donate something, if you can, to the Kodi project, they have expenses running support, etc.

Lastly, if you look in my repo (or the kodi.org repo) you will also find addons for WABC, as well as WRAL which is a CBS affiliate - if you run the WRAL addon and click on CBS Shows you have access to all the CBS shows, current as well as classic online. Lots of people miss the WRAL addon.

[marley]

I'm the one with problems with Seth Myers' full episodes; playing fine in Internet Explorer through the same proxy as I use in WNBC plugin..

I'm running kodi 14.2 on debian jessie, plugin version 1.0.12 ; log posted on http://pastebin.com/vxi5G2ed

Although yesterday I managed to watch Dateline, now somehow all shows and also featured videos seem not to work with WNBC plugin anymore: when looking with Internet Explorer I noticed now adds are played before the featured video, perhaps this has something to do with it?

Also note that playing those video's does NOT work on Firefox with addblockers disabled; perhaps nbc.com is very picky on which internet agent it is streaming to?

Perhaps someone can try using the same proxy as I do (proxy address in log) in the plugin?

Please let me know if I can help in any way...

[Eye in the sky]

I noticed this too.

Built-in proxy doesn't seem to work anymore.

http://xbmclogs.com/pzhxzp1nw#line-663

[learningit]

I'm the one with problems with Seth Myers' full episodes; playing fine in Internet Explorer through the same proxy as I use in WNBC plugin..

I'm running kodi 14.2 on debian jessie, plugin version 1.0.12 ; log posted on http://pastebin.com/vxi5G2ed

Although yesterday I managed to watch Dateline, now somehow all shows and also featured videos seem not to work with WNBC plugin anymore: when looking with Internet Explorer I noticed now adds are played before the featured video, perhaps this has something to do with it?

Also note that playing those video's does NOT work on Firefox with addblockers disabled; perhaps nbc.com is very picky on which internet agent it is streaming to?

Perhaps someone can try using the same proxy as I do (proxy address in log) in the plugin?

Please let me know if I can help in any way...

The url that is failing is https. My guesses are 1) your proxy doesn't support https; or 2) the 14.2 version of Kodi you are doesn't have a version of ffmpeg compiled with gnutls or openssl. I'm leaning towards #1. Some 14.x kodi platforms didn't support https in ffmpeg. Under system->debugging enable component specific logging, then select verbose libcURL and ffmpeg libraries. Try playing a video that is not playing. If there's a problem with ffmpeg, you'll see something like

Code:

15:06:16 T:2914669632 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
15:06:16 T:2914669632 DEBUG: ffmpeg[ADBA5440]: https protocol not found, recompile with openssl or gnutls enabled.
15:06:16 T:2914669632 DEBUG: Error, could not open file https://

in the debug log. The only way to fix that is upgrade to Kodi 15.x.

[learningit]

I noticed this too.

Built-in proxy doesn't seem to work anymore.

http://xbmclogs.com/pzhxzp1nw#line-663

Built-in proxy (assuming this means the addon's proxy settings) doesn't work in some situations because of the use of https in the playable url. You need a to set the Kodi (settings->system->internet access) level proxy to cover the ffmpeg library which the simple proxy built into the addon is not able to cover.

[marley]

Thanks Scotty, going to look into it.

It is not the proxy not supporting https, because then I wouldnt be able to watch the same stream through the same proxy on Internet Explorer...

Note that setting the Kodi level proxy to cover the ffmpeg library would not be a good solution, since all my other plugins then also would use the proxy, and they don't need it....

[learningit]

Yes, that seems to be the problem: when I disable the proxy the featured video's work, when I enable the proxy they don't .
Full episodes won't work without the proxy so can't test that...

Try setting the global settings->system->internet access proxy and disable the proxy in the addon itself to see if you can get the videos to play. I still wouldn't rule out the ffmpeg without https support, the symptoms you are having are very similar. If you can post a log with the 2 verbose settings enabled in debug tracking, I'll take a look.

[Eye in the sky]

No problem, just wanted to let you know that the latest version of the addon stopped working with proxy enabled.
Proxy was working fine with older versions.

[marley]

Ok I upgraded to Kodi 15.2 , this changed nothing, but hey, now I'm up to date

I set the proxy on Kodi central level, this didn't help anything either.

When I turn off all proxies (on Kodi and plugin level), I succeed in playing the featured video's:

Code:

14:46:01 T:139912787523328  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
14:46:01 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F3FFBFFF700]: Using network protocols without global network initialization. Please use avformat_network_init(), this will become mandatory later.
14:46:01 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 2 times.
14:46:01 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogBusy.xml) ------
14:46:01 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: Window DialogBusy.xml was already loaded
14:46:01 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: Alloc resources: 0.02ms
14:46:02 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F3FFBFFF700]: [hls,applehttp] HLS request for url 'http://nbcmpx-vh.akamaihd.net/i/video/289/678/151111_2935801_Bethenny_Frankel__Martha_Stewart_Doesn_t_Lik_mpx_,1696,1296,896,696,496,306,240,150,64,.mp4.csmil/segment1_0_av.ts?null=&id=AgBSqyHyF9c9NxmYRFYo406bOxbr4BKh1Dxj78OkW0RPfz06jAsqwnKmAAOrdkBayXJGoL1jOrbeHQ%3d%3d&hdntl=exp=1447422361~acl=/i/video/289/678/151111_2935801_Bethenny_Frankel__Martha_Stewart_Doesn_t_Lik_mpx_*~data=hdntl~hmac=63e48bd0abf4180e881d198f7a6a439e6a633a5488341d39f244640533062777', offset 0, playlist 0
14:46:02 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F3FFBFFF700]: Using network protocols without global network initialization. Please use avformat_network_init(), this will become mandatory later.
14:46:02 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F3FFBFFF700]: [https] No trailing CRLF found in HTTP header.

when I turn on plugin proxy, I get "One or more items failed to play. Check the log ...": In the log you can see a 403 forbidden error:

Code:

14:52:53 T:139912787523328  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
14:52:53 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F3FFBFFF700]: Using network protocols without global network initialization. Please use avformat_network_init(), this will become mandatory later.
14:52:53 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 2 times.
14:52:53 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogBusy.xml) ------
14:52:53 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: Window DialogBusy.xml was already loaded
14:52:53 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: Alloc resources: 0.02ms
14:52:53 T:139914315388992   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogProgress.xml) ------
14:52:53 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F3FFBFFF700]: [https] HTTP error 403 Forbidden
14:52:53 T:139912787523328   DEBUG: Error, could not open file https://nbcmpx-vh.akamaihd.net/i/video/289/679/151111_2935802_Bethenny_Frankel_Hitched_a_Ride_with_a_Fan_t_mpx_,1696,1296,896,696,496,306,240,150,64,.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8?hdnea=st=1447336342~exp=1447348972~ip=209.249.180.198~acl=/i/video/289/679/151111_2935802_Bethenny_Frankel_Hitched_a_Ride_with_a_Fan_t_mpx_*~id=a94cdce3-8142-485e-814d-ef67069783da~hmac=3396b849b2620e0a22531fdd8120481f65b818e27a752d9885067936340a46af
14:52:53 T:139912787523328   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer

It seems that with the proxy, ffmpeg is trying to load it with https, and without, with applehttp?!?!

I'm not sure how to test whether my proxy is able to handle https requests, if anyone has any ideas please post them..