[azrael17]

Thanks for the reply. I have already tried logging into my Youtube account then creating the live news stream in the playlist by itself, no joy. I am currently trying your second suggestion of internettv chtype and set it up through the youtube plugin link. Right now I am trying to figure out how to get the link via the Youtube addon. I can't even get it to update to show the newly created playlist. This is getting a little frustrating, I think I will give it a break and try again later before I end up on the news myself...LOL

It doesn't look like live streams have a playlist id. You could try making a 24/7 stream using the RTMP with wireshark. I haven't tried this before(with a live youtube stream), but I think it should work, that is until/if the stream restarts with a different link.

Thanks for all the help Azrael17, I am not sure what you mean by live youtube streams not having a playlist id. I do remember messing around with RTMP streams for XBMC a while ago. It was very finicky and I wasnt very good at getting it to work. All my other youtube based channels have worked perfectly in the past. This is the first time I have had this problem.

The thing is I can get it to build and appear as a playlist. When I select it in the EPG PTVL immediately exits. I just tried a force channel reset to see if it would help. No dice.

Anyhow here is a LOG just in case it helps.

It seems to have a problem finding the duration of the stream (which makes sense). Are you using the internettv chtype with 5400 as the time setting?

EDIT: Maybe you can upload your settings2.xml as well to see what it looks like.