[apok]

You're right. The plugin does download the live.xml file from the NHL servers. This file contains valid links as long as the game is still running. There's nothing you can do about it unless you scrape the NHL website directly.

Yup, I've been trying to reverse engineer how your plugin works from the gamecenter.py file, trying to brush up on my coding at the same time

I just saw that the games that were in the 'live' listings now are in Archive, so it takes ~12 hours for that move. Any ideas where we could parse the URLs for 'live'-but-completed, non-archived games? It has to show up somewhere I'd imagine (given I can still go to the webpage and watch, for example, the Coyotes game).

Also, any ideas why apok's HLS method isn't working for me? I can play the m3u8 files with ffmpeg, but mlbhls doesn't seem to like it...

Code:

mlbhls -B http://smb.cdnak.neulion.com/fs/nhl/mobile/iphone/video/senators/ced_3000.m3u8 -o test2.ts
[MLB] Reading cfg file: mlb.cfg
[MLB] Output file: test2.ts
[MLB] Max. Bandwidth: 3000000(bps)
[MLB] Min. Bandwidth: 0(bps)
[MLB] Bandwidth Locking: 1
[MLB] Fetching Master URL Ûi...
[MLB] Get Master URL ERR: name lookup timed out
[MLB] Get Master URL ERR: name lookup timed out
[MLB] Get Master URL ERR: name lookup timed out
[MLB] Get Master URL ERR: name lookup timed out

Alternatively, I've also recompiled xbmc with the patch here, and it seems to play m3u8 files fine. Do I need to do anything special to watch live games using your plugin? (I reverted back to your version after I couldn't get apok's to work).

[MLB] Fetching Master URL Ûi...

it's expecting a Master URL... not a stream URL. don't force quality on it, it just needs the ced.m3u8. It'll default to 3000000, and there's a flag (maybe -b) for setting bitrate... look at mlb.c.

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What I'd really like to do in the interim, in order to be able to watch these 'live' games, is grab the 'start of game' m3u8 file, and use hls or ffmpeg to dump the game to a TS file, which I can watch when I get home. I'll handle the ffmpeg/HLS bit myself, but I'd be greatful for any guidance you can provide around how to grab the right m3u8 file (Given you must have parsed these pages to find the initial files in the first place - you grabbed the 'iphone' ones? I can't seem to find these myself).

the mlbhls program will do this if you don't specify -S 4 or whatever it may be...run it in a console and it'll grab the file. You'd need to setup some sort of schedule to grab it say, within an hour after the game ends.