[mentat]

I understand your concerns regarding posting code in (this) support thread, however your comment regarding a "takedown notice" still confuses me...

Surely, RT is aware that you (we) are accessing their site/content and Team-Kodi is authorized to do so, using this official add-on (what would they request to be taken down)?

BTW, your support and prompt add-on update, are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

It is one thing to mimic the website and use the m3u8 presented dynamically by the website. It is quite another to publish a disused m3u8, naked so that no load sharing or redirect from a server under maintenance, etc. is done. Puts loads on servers that may not be able to carry them.
I have had takedown notices for exactly that. So wherever possible I write add-ons to behave the same as the website does.
The add-on tends to break less often as a result as well.

Understood.

Thanks.