[Swifty]

Hi All,

Does anyone know if an addon exists that allows playback of catchup tv for Channel 4 (UK)?

I found an addon for 4oD but it doesn't work (I'm assuming since Channel 4 changed the site to All4).
I have spent the morning seeing if I can work out the video urls from the All4 web pages so that I could check if Kodi can actually play the streams, but it isn't really my area of expertise so I haven't managed to uncover anything.

[DarrenHill]

Correct, since they made the change the old add-on stopped working.

Due to the new DRM they are using there isn't an add-on in the official repo for All4.

[Keeboudi]

Is there a way to perhaps launch the windows app from inside Kodi at all?

[DarrenHill]

What would be the point over just launching it separately?

[speedwell68]

What would be the point over just launching it separately?

Surely the point would be you don't have to launch it separately.

[DarrenHill]

Kodi wouldn't be able to communicate with it, only to start it. Something could probably be set up using one of the launcher add-ons, but it seems an odd thing to do, and rather a round-about method of doing it.

[TheGame1986]

Kodi wouldn't be able to communicate with it, only to start it. Something could probably be set up using one of the launcher add-ons, but it seems an odd thing to do, and rather a round-about method of doing it.

Not really, for the same reason I launch my Steam client from Kodi. I don't want to have to get up, go to my PC, pull out my keyboard and mouse, launch the client, go back to my sofa. Why? I can do it all with a remote without the hassle of having to pull everything out.

The same can be said with Windows apps. It's easy to control most apps with a remote, too, so there's little reason to go to the PC and control it, I wouldn't call it a 'round-about method', it's streamlining and ease of use.

EDIT: Just wanted to add, Kodi doesn't have to communicate with it. The same way my parents launch BBC iPlayer and Netflix from their Android boxes via Kodi... It's just a way of having all media and On-Demand options in one place.

[paul4ok]

Kodi wouldn't be able to communicate with it, only to start it. Something could probably be set up using one of the launcher add-ons, but it seems an odd thing to do, and rather a round-about method of doing it.

Not everyone is using Kodi on Windows either.

[DarrenHill]

I know, I'm one who isn't.