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For me, only premier league match of the day link works, and it works without buffer. The other links don't.
(2017-11-28, 00:16)sweetnonso Wrote: [ -> ]For me, only premier league match of the day link works, and it works without buffer. The other links don't.
 Have you updated the app to the latest version ?
(2017-11-28, 13:09)Atron Wrote: [ -> ]
(2017-11-28, 00:16)sweetnonso Wrote: [ -> ]For me, only premier league match of the day link works, and it works without buffer. The other links don't.
 Have you updated the app to the latest version ?

yes I have
So weird tonight, watching Wizards/Sixers.  The Wizards feed doesn't work, but the Sixers feed does.  Not sure what that means.
I never get a code to activate it is blank
All blue links working today even the Gold ones, thanks Erack.
Hi, I've recently started using this addon - and when it works, it's excellent.

I'm a comcast user and do not have an NBCSN  subscription. However, the the free content appears to largely work. What fails is some of the Replay videos (I haven't tried live). All the videos that fail start with a commercial when I view them using the NBC Sports Live Extra app on my phone or tablet. All the ones that work on the addon do not start with a commercial.

After installing the addon, I tried to access some non-free content to force my Kodi box to be authorized - this appeared to work fine. I then watched some content from featured and clips - all of the ones I tried worked fine. Accessing video under replay - specifically full Premiership rugby matches, only allowed me to watch 2-3 month old games, and not the less than 1 month old game. Viewing the same on my tablet, the only difference was presence of a commercial before the game - the 2-3 month old games didn't have a commercial.

Looking at the logs I see - for the old games
Code:
21:15:38.766 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: http://sprtvod3-vh.akamaihd.net/i/HD/video_sports/NBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports/239/923/nbc_rug_worcestervsleicester_17120215122414074,10_22,09_70,09_40,10_14,10_9,10_6,10_3,00k.mp4.csmil/index_1_av.m3u8?null=0?feed=v3.1%20Mobile_Feed%20-%20Mobile%2FTablet&formats=m3u%2Cmpeg4|User-Agent=NBCSports-iOS/9971 CFNetwork/811.5.4 Darwin/16.6.0&Cookie=_alid_=3qusb/rccLlzeNyopPN0Zw==
21:15:38.767 T:140405423815552 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:15:38.844 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:15:39.176 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
21:15:40.951 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
21:15:40.951 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
21:15:40.952 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
21:15:40.952 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Creating video thread
21:15:40.952 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
21:15:40.952 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018
21:15:40.953 T:140403024426752  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
21:15:40.954 T:140402948925184  NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
21:15:40.954 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
21:15:40.956 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::GetFormat - Creating VDPAU(1920x1080)
21:15:40.956 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: VDPAU::CreateContext - creating decoder context
21:15:40.964 T:140402948925184  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through)
21:15:40.983 T:140404619994880  NOTICE: PulseAudio: Opened device Default in pcm mode with Buffersize 150 ms
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: vdp_device = 0x00000001 vdp_st = 0x00000000
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: VDPAU Decoder capabilities:
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: name          level macbs width height
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: ------------------------------------
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: MPEG1             0  8192  2048  2048
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: MPEG2_SIMPLE      3  8192  2048  2048
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: MPEG2_MAIN        3  8192  2048  2048
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: H264_MAIN        41  8192  2048  2048
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: H264_HIGH        41  8192  2048  2048
21:15:41.001 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: VC1_SIMPLE        1  8190  2048  2048
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: VC1_MAIN          2  8190  2048  2048
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: VC1_ADVANCED      4  8190  2048  2048
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: MPEG4_PART2_ASP   5  8192  2048  2048
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: ------------------------------------
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_NOISE_REDUCTION
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_SHARPNESS
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_INVERSE_TELECINE
21:15:41.002 T:140404179334912  NOTICE: Mixer feature: VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1
21:15:41.264 T:140404179334912  NOTICE:  (VDPAU) screenWidth:1407 vidWidth:1920 surfaceWidth:1920
21:15:41.264 T:140404179334912  NOTICE:  (VDPAU) screenHeight:791 vidHeight:1080 surfaceHeight:1088
21:15:41.379 T:140404198024960  NOTICE: COutput::OnStartup: Output Thread created
21:15:41.416 T:140404198024960  NOTICE: VDPAU::COutput::CreateGlxContext - created context
21:15:41.416 T:140404198024960  NOTICE: VDPAU::COutput: vdpau gl interop initialized
21:15:41.418 T:140404189632256  NOTICE: CMixer::OnStartup: Output Thread created
21:15:41.418 T:140404189632256  NOTICE:  (VDPAU) Creating the video mixer
21:15:41.422 T:140404198024960  NOTICE: VDPAU::COutput::InitBufferPool - Output Surface created

and for matches with a commercial at the start
Code:
21:15:07.775 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: http://sprtott5-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/222323/nbc-sports1111041705-ua//hls/live/222323-b/nbc-sports1111041705-ua/OTT5_VIDEO_0_5564000_vod.m3u8|User-Agent=NBCSports-iOS/9971 CFNetwork/811.5.4 Darwin/16.6.0&Cookie=_alid_=xHP5RiQSkekZpgcyISWoGQ==
21:15:07.775 T:140405423815552 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
21:15:07.814 T:140402948925184  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
21:15:08.196 T:140402948925184   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://sprtott5-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/222323/nbc-sports1111041705-ua//hls/live/222323-b/nbc-sports1111041705-ua/OTT5_VIDEO_0_5564000_vod.m3u8|User-Agent=NBCSports-iOS/9971 CFNetwork/811.5.4 Darwin/16.6.0&Cookie=_alid_=xHP5RiQSkekZpgcyISWoGQ==
21:15:08.197 T:140402948925184  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
21:15:08.387 T:140402948925184   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
21:15:08.387 T:140402948925184  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
21:15:08.388 T:140405423815552   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.nbcsnliveextra/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsprtott5-i.akamaihd.net%2Fhls%2Flive%2F222323%2Fnbc-sports1111041705-ua%2Fmaster_vod.m3u8&mode=6&icon_image=http%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-pmd.edgesuite.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2Fmobile%2F38238_m50.jpg]
21:15:08.404 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
21:15:08.404 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
21:15:08.405 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
21:15:08.419 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
21:15:08.420 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
21:15:08.420 T:140405423815552  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

The difference appears to be accessing the commercial - when it fails a playlist is provided and the video is not found, when it works, the actual link to the video itself is found - which works.

In terms of config - its pretty much default, all I've changed is "Show only free content" and I've filtered the displayed videos to just F1 and Rugby.

I've tested this with both the version of the addon from Kodi repository as well as from Erack's repository, as well as with "Best Stream" set and unset - same outcome in all configurations.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?


Thanks

Alan
Don't know why so many issue. Using from long time and working absolutely fine for me. Uninstall addon, Restart Kodi and Reinstall from this guide. May be your ISP is blocking content. Hope this will help to solve your issue.
It all depends upon your Platform.

For many this addon is for all intents and purposes still broken. This is because when the Author fixed the links, he also disabled the quality settings obtained from the url. Its very possible that the master m3u8 now has totally different quality settings to what used to be used, and what the addon is currently expecting to be found in the stream.

So for anyone who's platform (mine included) uses Auto Quality settings dependent upon internet speed, this addon wont play any links at all. If your able to turn off the Auto Quality setting in your Kodi settings, then yes, most links will play, but they are of a poor quality and stutter like crazy. This is proven by re enabling the quality settings on line 164 of the nbcsn.py

After doing so, many links from NBCSN will play perfectly in 1080p, however, doing this breaks the live links and all replays completely. The quality settings code is completely broken at the moment in this addon and needs to be rewritten entirely, and the Author has just simply made all things work ( for some ) rather than nothing working at all as it was ( for everyone ) This is the reason the Author for the time being has disabled the quality settings.

Once the broken stream quality code is addressed, this addon should in theory work perfectly for everyone again.
Thanks for the insights and help.

Unfortunately, the HowTo linked by @iambrunoben is incorrect - there's no place to enter username and password at least in the standard and author repo versions (May and Nov 2017) - I'm guessing, based on the screen shot, that its actually a year old and just reposted. However, to be thorough I reinstalled Kodi, added the author's repo, installed the latest version from the author's repo and had exactly the same issue. There's no difference between the May 2017 version in the official repo and the Nov 2017 version in the author's repo in terms of what I'm experiencing.

For platforms, my main Kodi install is on LibreELEC, and I've also tested it on two separate Debian PCs - all with identical results, everything works except Replays after some date in Oct.

The common thread I've noticed is if there is a commercial before the main video it doesn't work, and the addon version does not appear to be relevant. I've also noted that there are not as many replays available on the add on as there are on the app - it looks like something isn't updating correctly.

Anyway, it sounds like I am not alone, and as such, I'm sure a fix will be in the offing. In truth, its really NBC Sports Gold I'd really like to get...

Thanks again for the help.
(2017-12-04, 16:39)am4c130d Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the insights and help.

Unfortunately, the HowTo linked by @iambrunoben is incorrect - there's no place to enter username and password at least in the standard and author repo versions (May and Nov 2017) - I'm guessing, based on the screen shot, that its actually a year old and just reposted. However, to be thorough I reinstalled Kodi, added the author's repo, installed the latest version from the author's repo and had exactly the same issue. There's no difference between the May 2017 version in the official repo and the Nov 2017 version in the author's repo in terms of what I'm experiencing.

For platforms, my main Kodi install is on LibreELEC, and I've also tested it on two separate Debian PCs - all with identical results, everything works except Replays after some date in Oct.

The common thread I've noticed is if there is a commercial before the main video it doesn't work, and the addon version does not appear to be relevant. I've also noted that there are not as many replays available on the add on as there are on the app - it looks like something isn't updating correctly.

Anyway, it sounds like I am not alone, and as such, I'm sure a fix will be in the offing. In truth, its really NBC Sports Gold I'd really like to get...

Thanks again for the help.
All Gold links where working at the weekend here, so lucky me.
All BPL matches working this morning for me.  Thank you Erack!!
Can you tell me whats my problem is
I using android boх with Kodi and Live Extra Addon. To get access I using DirecTv login (NBC SN included) and SmartDnsProxy service (I using their US DNS Ip in my router)
Content like "Live and Upcoming" and Replays not run but Olympic channel work fine
Why Live and Upcoming and Replays not work? (No errors) Any suggestions?
I explained why in post 3459
Guys is the app. down broken ?