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PerthSp4rky · 2016-10-17, 13:53

Hi all and thanks in advance,
just loaded Kodi onto my macbook pro, the main reason is to watch uk tv here in Australia, looking for the best add-on to play BBC & ITV C4 etc.

**DarrenHill** · (This post was last modified: 2016-10-17, 14:05 by DarrenHill.)

BBC has iPlayer WWW and ITV has ITV player add-ons in the official repo. Both are geolocked to UK IP addresses though so you'll need a VPN, smart DNS or other solution to overcome that.

There is no add-on for channel 4, but you could also try blxd's version of the TVCatchup add-on which has the main BBC, ITV and C4 channels but also is geolocked.

PerthSp4rky · 2016-10-17, 14:15

Thanks Darren,
I'll sort out the vpn asap & see how we go.

speedwell68 · 2016-10-17, 14:25

(2016-10-17, 14:05)DarrenHill Wrote: BBC has iPlayer WWW and ITV has ITV player add-ons in the official repo. Both are geolocked to UK IP addresses though so you'll need a VPN, smart DNS or other solution to overcome that.

There is no add-on for channel 4, but you could also try blxd's version of the TVCatchup add-on which has the main BBC, ITV and C4 channels but also is geolocked.

I can't find ITV Player in the official repo. It is in another repo that is not up for discussion on these forums. Although it is a perfectly legitimate addon.

There is also a UKTV Play addons which gives you on-demand access to Dave, Really, Yesterday and Drama. It is in the same repo as the ITV Player addon and again is perfectly legit.

Pasado · 2016-10-17, 14:29

(2016-10-17, 14:05)DarrenHill Wrote: BBC has iPlayer WWW and ITV has ITV player add-ons in the official repo. Both are geolocked to UK IP addresses though so you'll need a VPN, smart DNS or other solution to overcome that.

There is no add-on for channel 4, but you could also try blxd's version of the TVCatchup add-on which has the main BBC, ITV and C4 channels but also is geolocked.

You must be using a different repo to the rest of us as the ITV player add-on is not listed! probably an oversight on your part Wink

**DarrenHill** · 2016-10-17, 14:53

Possibly - is been a while since I installed it.

Anyway there is a repo with it via this thread.

And whilst the uk play add-on is fine, the normal repo where it lives is a banned add-on (wiki) due to what else it contains. But you can get it directly from Github with a bit of searching.

speedwell68 · 2016-10-17, 15:33

(2016-10-17, 14:53)DarrenHill Wrote: Possibly - is been a while since I installed it.

Anyway there is a repo with it via this thread.

And whilst the uk play add-on is fine, the normal repo where it lives is a banned add-on (wiki) due to what else it contains. But you can get it directly from Github with a bit of searching.

Which is a shame as they are both decent and very reliable addons. You'd have thought the author would have hosted them somewhere a bit better.

**DarrenHill** · 2016-10-17, 16:03

I entirely agree - I have both installed although neither are from the repo.

speedwell68 · 2016-10-17, 17:58

(2016-10-17, 16:03)DarrenHill Wrote: I entirely agree - I have both installed although neither are from the repo.

This is going completely off topic now. How hard/legal would it be to to take these perfectly decent addons and put them in a 'clean' repository? There are lots of addons like these two that are perfectly legal but are in repos chock full of dross.

**DarrenHill** · 2016-10-17, 18:36

Should be no reason why they can't be forked and rehomed, at least that I can see.

nickr · 2016-10-18, 06:28

Depending on their respective licenses of course.

PerthSp4rky · 2016-10-18, 11:48

thanks guys. I'll get onto all of the above.