(2014-01-25, 22:52)Carb0 Wrote: Changing the user agent string doesn't seem to work. The vlc stuff doesn't work either. I think neulion changed more than just the list of accepted user agents.

(2014-01-26, 00:41)pett Wrote: Nice job! Hopefully this pans out for the rest of us.
Could you provide more details to exactly where you inserted this ip address?

(2014-01-26, 02:05)Swiper the Fox Wrote: not sure how to modify hosts in xbmcbuntu. trying in putty but its not working. anyone have step by step instructions on how to modify /etc/hosts
I have putty / winscp and I can do it right on the machine using ctrl + alt + F1 but can't figure out how to modify /edit it
thx

(2014-01-25, 23:49)MetalChris Wrote:

(2014-01-25, 22:52)Carb0 Wrote: Changing the user agent string doesn't seem to work. The vlc stuff doesn't work either. I think neulion changed more than just the list of accepted user agents.

I have been able to get this working again, completely by accident. Not sure exactly what fixed it, but here's what I did:

I have the gamecenter plugin on two systems, one is a linux box, the other is a Raspberry PI. I was actually trying to get the games to work on my linux box in VLC from the reddit link that was posted a day or so ago. I was able to get the video working, but the audio would crap out after a second or two. I finally gave up, and just for the hell of it, I decided to see if the gamecenter plugin on my linux box would work. I haven't used XBMC on it since I got my Pi last summer, and the gamecenter plugin hasn't been updated since then either. Anyway, I fired it up, and it worked right off the bat!

I figured it must be some of the older files that kept it working so I started comparing files between the two. I'm not really much good at coding, I can do a little hacking on stuff and I've done a lot of html and php but nothing with python, and what was on both machines looked pretty much identical to me. So I figured I'd just start swapping files and see what happened. I copied the older gamecenter.py file to the Pi. Nothing. I had noticed when watching on the linux box, the 'now playing' info displayed was different from what was displayed on the Pi when it was working (it actually shows the team names), so I copied the older m3u8 folder to the Pi. Still nothing. Then I started thinking about what I had to do to get the streams to work in VLC and remembered that at one point I had to add an IP address to the hosts file on the linux box. I dug up the hosts file on the Pi, added the address (192.241.136.149 nlsk.neulion.com), and the gamecenter plugin was working again!

I'm not sure if it was just adding the address to the hosts file that did the trick, or if it was a combination of things that made it happen, but I was able to watch the third period and overtime of the Islanders game this afternoon. I did get kicked out of the game a couple of times, but I'm not sure if that was the NHL fighting back or just random internet issues. Unfortunately, there are no other games on until tonight so I can't do any further testing until then.

Maybe there is some light at the end of the tunnel after all...

(2014-01-26, 02:51)MetalChris Wrote: Glad it's working for some of you. Was it just editing the hosts file that made it work, or was it necessary to replace the gamecenter.py and m3u8 folders as well? I'm getting kicked out of games every 5 minutes or so on both my linux box and my Pi. Might try and see what happens on my hackintosh.